Artists aren’t the only ones who get to be creative. Sharing stories in your content is one way to show off your OWN creativity! Much of creativity is “thinking outside the box.” Sometimes we just have to move the box around a little! I’ve always admired artists. Early in my life, I realized that creativity…
Traveling to new destinations – in ALL areas of your life – can be exciting! “Adventure” and “excitement” are two words I’ve always associated with travel. The first long trip I remember my family taking was when I was 4 years old, when we drove from California to South Dakota (or was it Minnesota?), for a family…
Taking mini-breaks can lower stress AND increase productivity. Taking a break when we were kids was easy. Most of us probably had long stretches of time with “nothing to do” in the summer or on weekends. And if you’re like me, you learned early on that if you had too much free time and complained…
Years ago, while attending California State University, Chico (CSUC) for a degree in Mass Communications, I took a class in Technical Problem Analysis (aka “Creative Problem Solving”). Our textbook was The Universal Traveler: A Soft-Systems Guide to Creativity, Problem-Solving and the Process of Reaching Goals, by Don Koberg and Jim Bagnall. (The latest edition of this book was published in 2003.)…
hab·it – a recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition. We all know what habits are, and probably take them for granted most of the time. But bad ones can hold us back in our careers and personal lives, and good ones can propel us forward almost effortlessly. Take exercise, for…
“Thinking outside the box” is easier than you think! Everyone’s heard the phrase “thinking outside the box.” But what does that mean exactly? Here is Merriam-Webster’s definition: to explore ideas that are creative and unusual and not limited or controlled by rules or tradition The ability to come up with unusual solutions to problems is a…
Peanut butter and jelly. Ham and cheese. Milk and cookies. We all grew up with these, didn’t we? They’re familiar to us. That’s why we do a double-take when someone throws in something unexpected … like peanut butter and mayonnaise (yes, there are some who actually like that, my husband being one of them). Or ham…
Who needs structure? We all do! Especially if we want to accomplish much in life. Several years ago, I read an article about Picasso. It said he knew how to draw and paint the traditional way, and had perfected that style long before he took up abstract art. In other words, he knew the rules,…