12 Dec 10 5 Tips to Nurture Creativity

Are you trying hard to be creative and prove the creative spark within you? Don’t try so hard, we all are creative in greater or smaller proportion. At times it’s latent, so we don’t realize its power and consider ourselves not so creative. Don’t feel that way. All you need to do is stir the creative juice flowing within your mind. It will make you conceptualize ideas, innovate things. A creative mind and its output not only draw materialistic gain, but also immense mental satisfaction and physical well-being. Sharpen your creative side, today.

Here are some tips to evolve as a better creative person.

A pair of thirsty eyes

Change your vision, change the way you look at things with a pinch of newness. Get rid of pre-occupied ideas and notions. Look at things like a child with sheer enthusiasm, curiosity and eagerness. It will definitely help you to overcome your bias, see the world from a new perspective and develop a creative mind.

Stay active

Stay fit and active. An active mind only nurtures creativity and helps creative ideas to evolve. Exercise daily, fresh ideas can evolve anytime. Physical activities will also sharpen your mental acuteness.

Break the rule

A creative person can never be average and conventional. Challenge rules, conventions. Don’t make your life as like others. Try to be different. Break the monotony. If you normally go to movie every weekend, this weekend indulge yourself with a puppet show. Challenge your own understanding and see how you perform. Variety is the key to creativity. Don’t restrict your mind. Explore the world. Don’t follow route, create your own route.

Question everything

A curious mind always learns new things, cultivate creative ideas and innovate new things. Question everything around you. The answer may lead to some creative ideas.

Study things, read more

Learning is the key to creativity. Experience of life is enriched with studying the surrounding, studying art and music, voracious reading etc. It will expand your horizon and help you to evolve as a better creative person. Study people around you, their lifestyle, places, nature. It will give you many ideas. Reading will sharpen your vocabulary power and command on language. It will also help you to come across with better ideas.

Just go with the flow. Nurture your creative mind.

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26 Oct 10 How to keep Creative Ideas Flowing?

Who doesn’t want to be creative? But only a handful of us are creative. On contrary to this ratio, we all are creative within; creativity is there in all of us. But most of us don’t realize it, don’t cultivate it further. But, creativity is required everywhere – from education to business, from physics to psychology. Without creativity, life comes to a halt. Creativity gives vent to ones’ imagination, thinking, ideation power, and understanding of the surrounding. It’s the passion to create something new, which is the driving force behind all innovations in this world.

But how to keep the creative juice flowing? Here are tips below regarding where to get creative ideas from.

Choose an area of interest

Choose an area of work, which interests you. Don’t do what everyone is doing and is counted as trendy, or what brings money. Follow your heart and aptitude. You should do things which interest you, what you are passionate about. Then work will never seem like burden, it will be enjoyable. Within your passionate field further choose an area which you are good at. Like some artists are best in oil painting. So they excel if they go to the same field.

Draw inspiration from a source

You should be inspired by someone, to get going. It could be anyone – a mentor whose work inspire you or a famous person, a renowned global personality whose creations and success have always driven you crazy. Don’t imitate them blindly, get inspired by them.

Challenge yourself, do something new

Don’t end up doing what the rests have been doing. Challenge yourself constantly. Even if it seems impossible and full of hurdles in reality, if you think your idea is good and you can do it, go for it. It may take time and patience, but all great things come after long wait. Don’t be nailed down by failures. Failures will take you to success. If breaking rules help in procuring something good, let it happen.

Write down your ideas

Whenever something unique comes to your mind, pen it down and keep safely. It will keep you involved, focused, motivated and will help you to measure your progress.

Consult outer sources

Stay humble and open to new ideas. Don’t think you know it all. Tomorrow while talking to someone you come up with a better idea than before. So keep learning from others, books, films, articles – whatever is relevant for you. Even in an informal chat over coffee, great ideas may spring up.

Stay creative!

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08 Aug 09 Should You Write An Ebook?

Writing an ebook can be a fantastic way to establish yourself, or your blog. Ebooks are growing in popularity every day, with the growing use of devices like Amazon.com’s Kindle, and the fact that practically everyone in the western world owns their own PC which is most likely connected to the internet. Ebooks are practically no cost to produce and distribute, making them a very viable income source, as long as you know what you’re doing. First off consider why you want to write an ebook.

Do you want to write a manual about a topic that you have some level of expertise concerning, like a guide of some sort? There’s a huge market for that. Or even if you’ve got a few creative ideas, and you want to try and get your own short story or novella published, also a huge audience waiting to get their hands on your material. Or even if you just want to promote your blog, or some aspect of your business, an ebook could be the answer for you. There are just a few guidelines you should follow.

First off, you’re asking someone to pay for the privilege of reading what you’ve written, so make sure you write something worth reading. Don’t just write a glorified sales pitch that people have to pay to read, deliver real relevant content. Remember, every reader that gives your book a shot has the chance of remembering your name and becoming somewhat of a fan for every future work that you produce.

If you’re writing to draw attention to your company or your blog, make sure that the ebook is still making the notice that you yourself are authoring the work. This is still your words, presented to solve a problem, provide information, or entertain, and don’t forget that. People are interested in what you’ve had to write, not who or what you’ve written the work for.

Finally, don’t make the purpose of your ebook to sell a product or service. An honorable mention is okay, but the ebook itself needs to be it’s own entity. You’re still providing people a service through the ebook, and looking to attract them to you through their enjoyment of your first project. Don’t forget that point. You’re not getting people to pay for a sales pitch, you’re just presenting one aspect of your expertise or talents that could influence them to look into the other projects of which you are involved.

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