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In our Workplace Creativity Articles section, we have a fantastic new article by Craig Cortello, entitled Business Meeting Creativity Ideas Do you have any articles, hints, tips, tricks or inspiring creativity stories? Remember – your submissions are always welcome! You'll find all the details in our Article Submissions section. |
Save Your New Year's Resolutions: Set Goals Now
By Bev Bachel Creative people revel in making something out of nothing, so when a new year and a blank calendar appears, the possibilities seem endless. Suddenly, impossible editors aren't so intimidating, artistic debuts are only one workshop away and sales goals are easy to achieve. But John C. ... 
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Art and Life Are On: Artella's Waltz of Words and Art
By Eugenia Toledo-Keyser Artella issue 8, The Dreamworld: Night Sees the Day is an adventure in content, structure, and style. It surpasses everything that I have seen so far in art or literary magazines. Artella's Editor and Founder Marney Makridakis is, no doubt, a visionary and a passionate person. This new issue of the magazine has a main subject: THE DREAMWORLD, and it was fueled by "dreams". ...
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Tips For Personal Brainstorming
By Chuck Frey
Everyone has problems and challenges that need solving; they're an inevitable part of living. What many people don't realize, however, is that most of them can be overcome using a simple, focused program of personal brainstorming. ...
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Who Says You Can't Wear Red Shoes?
By Carolina Fernandez Who says you can't wear red shoes? Or chartreuse for that matter! Have you bought into the notion that only a few select individuals in this world are creative? Or that the only people who can act artistically are artists? If you struggle with these beliefs, recognize that you are not alone. ...
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Workplace Creativity Articles
Business Meeting Creativity Ideas
By Craig Cortello Developing an innovative spirit in the workplace doesn't require extraordinary measures. As a manager, you can experiment with simple ideas that merely break routines, allowing your employees permission to drop the facade that we all don to some degree when we punch the clock. ...
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Out-of-Box, In-the-Box, New-Box, Other-Box, No-Box Thinking
By Robert Alan Black, Ph.D. For years supporters and detractors of creative thinking in the workplace have talked about Out-of-the-Box Thinking. The supporters, often consultants and researchers, have stressed the easiest way for people to be creative was to think out-of-the-box, to break their paradigms or mindsets, their ways of thinking. ...
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Are You Living Your Career Dreams?
By Charlene Rashkow Inherent within the human spirit is the desire for fulfillment, a longing to carry out our creative aspirations by reaching new heights of accomplishment. Yet often the yearning can be suppressed by fear. Perhaps we aren't feeling good enough, smart enough or able enough to pursue and fulfill our dreams. ...
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Being Serious Won't Make You Silly, Yet Being Silly Can Help You Be More Serious
By Robert Alan Black, Ph.D. Over 35 years of working in creative fields and working with people striving to be more creative or use more creativity I have discovered that silly has its place in the serious workplace. Since first attending CPSI in 1978 I have met hundreds of consultants, business leaders, managers, trainers and educators that have shared how they use silly as a serious creativity tool. ...
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Creativity Toolbox Articles
Try This Kids…Get Wild at Home!
By Artella Try This, Kids…Get Wild at Home! 10 Ways to Cultivate Creativity: A WildChild Primer for Kids of All Ages 1. Color. Buy crayons and a coloring book, and purposefully, intentionally, color outside the lines. Scribble, break the crayons in half, smash them into the page. Write in the margins how it feels to break the rules. 2. Spend some time thinking about what you loved as a child. ...
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Your Life Isn't An Accident: A Tip on Finding Your Life Path
By Hershey Wier If "transitioning" is a talent, then perhaps quite a few of us can add that to our little bag of tricks. In my life, I went through several interstate moves during my childhood in the U.S. ...
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Understanding the Mind: 5 Keys to a Writer's Creativity
By Rob Daugherty Do you ever wonder how some writers experience that creative "flow" almost at will? They produce so much material it seems as if they have ghost writers working for them. Or, on the other hand, some writers seem to have too many ideas and can't focus long enough to finish a project. ...
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| Explore Innovation |
| Explore Innovation is a network of people, ideas & concepts, and practical activities that are a resource for business people who want to add to or strengthen creative actions and innovative results in their work. In collaboration with Ballet Memphis, we have developed a unique workshop for business leaders on innovation. |
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| Artella... the waltz of words and art |
| A unique magazine and lively support network for writers, artists, and creative spirits |
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| Center for Studies in Creativity |
| The Center's purpose is to promote and improve our understanding of creativity and its many applications. |
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| How Much Joy |
| How Much Joy Can You Stand - A Place to Face Your Fears and Create Your Dreams! A wonderful website with lots of free tools, a Joy Store, free newsletter and so much more. Don't miss this site! |
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| Innovation Tools |
| The InnovationTools web site provides busy executives with a valuable collection of tools, ideas and resources, designed to help them be more creative in their day-to-day work. |
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| Thinking Managers |
| Profitable musings on modern management, modern thought and contemporary art |
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| Ideas by Creativity Pool |
| A free pool of global innovation and future inventions. People can search the database for creative inspiration, or donate new ideas and be rewarded. |
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| Creative Growth and Healing |
| The creative process is a powerful, transformative tool for healing our minds and bodies, our relationships and our world. Each one of us carries this ancient medicine inside. |
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| Hand-Crafted Lives |
| This site's mission is to provide a framework of ideas on which to build a craft business. Betty Chypre offers tips and help with the business side of creativity. |
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| Creax |
| Creax.net is an extensive, inspirational and growing resource for links on creativity on the web. A great starting point for any creativity journey! |
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| Wake up Writing! |
| This wonderfully inspiring site deserves a daily visit - start each day off with a writing exercise that will get your creative juices going. |
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| Creativity Portal |
| This Web site will appeal to the craft lover lurking inside all of us. The Creativity Portal gathers together a number of craft-related resources and categorizes them for easy clicking. |
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| Tera's Wish |
| Tera Leigh, one of our guest authors, has created a lovely Web site with Tera's Wish. Although the focus is on artists and artistic endeavours, there are also some wonderful articles on creativity and being creative. Definitely not a site to be missed. |
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| Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't Find It): A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of Heraclitus |
 By Roger Von Oech. "The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus was famous for his brilliant and provocative sayings. Today, more than 2,500 years after they were written, his ideas about life, nature, and the cosmos remain as startlingly original as ever. In Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't Find It), Roger von Oech uses thirty of Heraclitus' epigrams as springboards to dazzling creativity. Treating each saying as an inexhaustible source of inspiration, he supplies amusing anecdotes, mind-bending riddles, hidden jokes, and intriguing questions designed to topple old habits of thought and fire the imagination. |
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| Your Heart's Desire : Instructions for Creating the Life You Really Want |
 By Sonia Choquette. "Nationally known intuitive and spiritual leader Sonia Choquette shares the nine universal principles for creating the reality of your dreams. Step by step, with practical advice, specific exercises, and modern-day parables, she teaches readers to make the changes in thought and behavior that will lead them to the attainment of their most heartfelt desires." |
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| Affirmations for Artists |
 by Eric Maisel. "Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses. This book of affirmations is compiled with the special needs of artistic persons in mind. Arranged in alphabetical order by topic (Disbelief, Imitation, Talent), each page includes a handful of relevant quotations by writers, musicians, actors, or other creative people, a commentary by the author, and, of course, an affirmation." |