“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Increase the size of your playing field. As you create ideas, think real big. As you do, you draw from a greater source of experiences and thoughts. Project 3 years into the …
Do you know the key to creativity?
Do you know the most important thing that enhances creativity? It rhymes with weed. It produces the oak tree. It is what we often eat or grind up for flour. It can mean egg or germ or nucleus. It can mean cause or origination. You guessed it. It is SEED. …
Stimulate creativity with humor.
“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.” — Edward De Bono I love Edward De Bono’s explanation of how humor sparks creativity. To illustrate this, I am going to tell you a joke: Did you hear about the man who …
Being creative is a logical process
“Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know.Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” — George Kneller Creativity is not a gift you have to …
What is creativity?
“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” — Mary Lou Cook Creativity is: – seeing things differently; – seeing different things; – seeing things double or better; – generating multiple options; – breaking the rules; – thinking linking; – a high level of …
Make a list of 100 goals.
Mark Victor Hansen, a circuit speaker, says make a list of 100 goals, long and short term. Then pick a hand full and work on them only. Making a big list stretches your thinking. Selecting from the list allows flexibility. “The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but …
Keep your goals visible
Increase your focus on your goals by making copies of them and posting them in places you frequent during the day. If you can create a symbol to represent your goal, so much the better. Put your icons on your bathroom mirror, your fridge, in your car, on your desk, …
Do you believe your goals are realistic?
Goal setting helps us identify targets so we know clearly where we are going and what we need to get there. And our success in reaching those targets spurs us on to accomplish more, so we find our lives rich in meaning and purpose. But the beauty and value of …