Creativity Tool: Reversed Pareto

This article is one in a series of short articles describing practical creativity tools. It uses a reversed version of the classic principle of Pareto, to help you come up with creative ideas in seemingly trivial areas.

Our Creative Imagination has the Power of Transcendence

In the Ode to a Nightingale (Stanza 1): Keats describes his reaction to a nightingale's song while sitting in a garden. So intense is his happiness that it paradoxically produces pain and a dull feeling, and he longs to be united with the bird's song.

Optimizing the Key Success Factors in Your Work From Home Business

How do you roll your ideas of your own tedium chores, career objectives, good documentation practices, goal setting, measurements of progress, ploughing through books on achieving success, and everything else you can think of in this long list of THINGS into an easily accessible image containing your desired outcome with all the sensory input that tells your brain it is HERE AND NOW, right now?

I Love My Raggedy Collection

I never imagined what an impact a simple rag doll would have on my life. It makes me feel good when I am surrounded by something so loving as these two characters.

How To Be Creative - The Simple Technique Anyone Can Learn To Increase Creativity

EVERYONE, with the right guidance and encouragement, can go on to achieve new levels of creativity, whatever our past experience of creating. But how and where do we begin to be more creative? The answer, and the key to all creative works, is simpler than you may think-

Spiritual Rebels - Their Name Fit the Character

A Portrait is the story of the nets and the escape from them to freedom, and the name of the hero is full of sympathetic significance. Stephen is the name of the first Christian martyr. He protested that God’s message to the people had been misinterpreted. He was accused of blasphemy and cast out of the city and stoned to death. Indeed, Stephen thinks of St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin as his green.

An Ice-Breaker To Reinsure Everyone

Use this ice-breaker to kick start a creativity workshop or just have a good time with your friends on a rainy afternoon.

Increase Creativity: How To Achieve Your Creative Goals

By believing that fixed pre-conditions are necessary for our happiness, and then finding they never quite arrive when and how we expect them to, we set ourselves up for much frustration, procrastination, even anger, and can trigger off spirals of negative inner thoughts and criticism. Here's an alternative approach to finding, and then achieving, YOUR creative goals.

Why Do We Want to Be Creative?

The first and most important question to ask ourselves is why we want to be creative. If our answer is not profound, then our chances of becoming truly creative are slim.

Creativity: The Constant Invitation

Creativity is not just the domain of those in the arts - it's there for everyone all the time. It makes the impossible possible by creating the pathway into what is possible and what is next; and transforms perceived limitations into surprising opportunities.

Fostering Creativity, Innovation and Geniuses in Our Society

Is it possible to modify the way a society thinks about creative geniuses, invention and innovation to increase the sum total output of the civilization? I believe it is, do you want to know how I believe this can be done?

Creativity Tool - Role Swap

Sometimes the thing that is blocking you from making a breakthrough is the fact that you are looking at things from the same point of view that you have been used to. This article describes a technique that may help you overcome this creativity block. It includes a detailed explanation and a demonstrative example.

Dare To Experiment With Your Ideas - And Reap The Rewards That Come With It

An excellent quality you'll want to develop in yourself, if you want to experience more fulfillment in life, is the willingness or courage to experiment. It is one of the key qualities of highly creative people.

Creative Triggers and Connections - the Sparks and Flames of Artistic Output

Have you ever been hit by a bout of unexpected creativity? How to encourage free creative thinking.