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”....
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...
Today is day 4 of the “10 bold moves to stir up your creativity”. Bold Move #4: Run a marathon. Learn to snowboard or ski. Sky dive. Go to racing school. Start your own business. Try defying gravity. Do something you didn’t think you ever could and prove yourself wrong. My father has always been a stellar athlete. National Water Polo player, Pan American Water Polo champion,...
Today is day 3 of the “10 bold moves to stir up your creativity”. Bold Move #3: Do you have someone you look up to? Someone who has the career you admire, or that you want to know more about but are too scared to ask to meet? Go for it – call, email, dm, however you can – but take the chance. After all, they are...
Due to a question about the power/boldness of my first creative idea, I decided to clarify why I chose these tips. Each tip over the next 9 days (and the one yesterday) have worked for either myself or someone I know personally. So, I have decided to include a little about the story that inspired the bold move. These are not ‘fun ideas’ but actual...
Today is day 1 of the “10 bold moves to stir up your creativity”. Bold Move #1: Take your favorite book and read it somewhere in public (mine is “She’s Come Undone” by Wally Lamb). Put yourself out there and let someone ask you a question. You never know, the one person who helps you to think about you favorite book in a new way could be...
I wonder if you could help me an experiment by answering the following in comments. 1) What’s the hardest part about creativity for you? 2) What’s the easiest part about creativity for you? I’ll go first: Hardest – 1) Getting started Easiest – 2) Getting started Yes, I really do think that getting started is both the easiest and the hardest. It is often difficult to get motivation (which is why creativity is...
Sometimes the best way to start your creativity is to read someone else’s. Twitter is one of my favorite social media sites, and I love reading the tweets of my followers and those I follow. Often they share great url’s, funny stories, and business motivation. Now I have found another site with some fabulous creative stories to stem my creativity - in the same style as...
