Mar
26
Cure for Winter Blues
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Jun
23
Two-word Tuesday #2
Two-words to give you a bit of creativity. Do with them what you will – and don’t forget to share!Break something Confused? Check out the start of two-word Tuesday...
Jun
05
You can write but can you design?
Last week I wrote a guest post on The Everyday Web Expert about writing tips for designers. These were basic writing tips for people whose focus is the graphics, not the words. Today, I am tackling the other side of the coin – design tips for writers. Just because your writing is fantastic doesn’t mean your design skills have to be sub-par. Here are 4 simple...
Apr
27
Breathing life into an old post
Not all of my writing is perfect. I know, *gasp*! But in all honesty, it isn’t. The biggest culprit? Laziness. I have written a few lazy posts. The idea was there, the execution just wasn’t up to par. Yesterday’s task from problogger was to breathe life into an old post – to fix it up and make it better. It would have been done yesterday,...
Jan
23
10 bold moves for a more creative you – Day #10
Today is day 10 of the “10 bold moves to stir up your creativity”. Here is a quick recap of #1-#9: 1. Read in public 2. Quit your job 3. Contact someone you look up to 4. Do something you never thought you could 5. Disconnect 6. Don’t follow the crowd 7. Be nice 8. Ask questions 9. Let yourself be wrong Bold Move #10: Stop reading and start doing! Not to sound ungrateful to my readers,...
Jan
22
10 bold moves for a more creative you – Day #9
Today is day 9 of the “10 bold moves to stir up your creativity”. Bold Move #9: Let yourself be wrong. Think about it: If you are never wrong, you never have the opportunity to learn something. We all like being right, ask any of my friends, I don’t do ‘wrong’ well. But, I have learned more about business by being wrong than I ever have by...
Jan
21
10 bold moves for a more creative you – Day #8
Today is day 8 of the “10 bold moves to stir up your creativity”. Bold Move #8: Ask questions…not for the answer but for the conversation that it creates. Creativity is not a solo sport. If you were to lock yourself in a room and cut off all interaction, you would lose creative steam fairly quickly. You might get a few more things done in the beginning,...
Jan
20
10 bold moves for a more creative you – Day #7
Today is day 7 of the “10 bold moves to stir up your creativity”. Bold Move #7: Be nice. Genuinely, honestly and truly nice. This sounds like a very simple, and not-so-bold task, but it is often forgotten and has a larger influence than we often think. Creativity is driven by the interactions in our lives, so why not have those interactions be kind ones? Rather than tell...
Jan
19
10 bold moves for a more creative you – Day #6
Today is day 6 of the “10 bold moves to stir up your creativity”. Bold Move #6: Don’t follow the crowd. There is nothing we have to do, nowhere you have to go and no path we all should take. The best way to look at this is to think about some of the things you heard about college growing up: “You have to go to college”....
Jan
16
10 bold moves for a more creative you – Day #5
Today is day 5 of the “10 bold moves to stir up your creativity”. Bold Move #5: Disconnect. Turn off your computer, your blackberry/iphone/palm/etc, any method of people getting in touch with you and go outside. Many of us assume that we are the most creative when we are in our offices, our what we have determined to be our optimal creative environment. In reality, if you...