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Resources for Creativity and Innovation
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Ten Creativity Kick Starts

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Kickstart your creativity

Enhancing your creativity and thinking skills can and should be a lifelong journey. But what if you have just discovered this web site and want to get a quick start? This page offers suggestions based onmy experience over the last few years.

1. Journalling

Obtain an A4 (8 x 11 inch) notebook and use it for your journal. Each morning as soon as you get up, write three pages of anything. Typically you will write about what you did the day before, ideas, dreams, problems, and rambling thoughts. You may need to get up 30 minutes earlier to do the writing. More information: Read Julia Cameron'sThe Artists Way, and Dorothea Brande's Becoming a Writer.

2. Regular Fresh Input

The mind needs stimulation. Your sensory input gets stored in memory. By giving your mind fresh inputs each day, your memories get triggered and combined with the new input. Sometimes you will get ideas or gain new perspectives. How do you get new input? Do something new each day. Listen to different radiostations, read or borrow different magazines, take a stroll through a shopping centre. Keep your eyes and ears open, and taste, touch and smell things. Don't forget to carry a notebook or micro-cassette recorder to record your ideas during the day.

3. Keep a Journal

In addition to the three pages you write in your morning journal, always carry a journal. I recommend the hardcover A5 size -either ruled pages or a Visual Diary (from an Art Supply Shop). Don't forget to carry a pen and/or pencil along with the journal. You may want to get one of those four colour in one ball-point pens made by Bic. Use your journal to record your thoughts, ideas, and observations during the day. Write in a creative quotation, affirmation or a technique to use this week. Make the journal your constantcompanion.

4. Learn a new Creativity Technique Write the technique on an index card or in your journal and carry it with you to practice wherever possible. Just like each week
learning new words in a foreign language, you will need to practice the technique until it is second nature to you.

Where do you learn techniques? Some of them are described on this web site, but you should buy a book likeMichael Michalko's Thinkertoys, Arthur VanGundy's Brain Boosters for Business Advantage, Robert Alan Black's Broken Crayons or James Higgins' 101 Creative Problem Solving Techniques.

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5. Relax!

Listen to music on headphones while lying on the floor.Sit outside in the sunshine and do nothing. Take a stroll, ride your bike or go for a swim. It's important to give youself time to unwind and let your subconscious mind do its work. Getting ideas in the shower or while you are driving has almost become a cliche, but it is true. Use Betty Edwards' book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain to teach yourself to draw. It's a wonderful book and you...