10 Tips to Wake Up Your Creative Mind

We're all creative. Our individual creativity is present to greater or lesser degrees, but we all have the capacity to be more creative. Creativity is a force which enables us to develop and expand our concepts, come up with innovations, recast old ideas, and problem solve. This creative capacity is important to your physical and mental health, your business success, and financial well-being. Here are some tips to wake up your creative abilities:

1. FRESH EYES - Look at things with a new perspective, child-like without all of the baggage of preconceived notions and past experience. This is a powerful way to increase your creativity. It will take practice to limit your inclinations to judge from prior experience and past practices.

2. EXERCISE - Yes, physical exercise will help awaken your mental capabilities as well. Often while engaged in exercise you will find that you will come up with new ideas, and as your physical well-being improves your mental acuteness will too.

3. REST - Just like exercise, rest is also important. You will be less creative when you're exhausted, tired or burnt-out.

4. VARY YOUR ROUTINE - Take a different way home. Don't go to the same restaurant every Friday. Cultivate variety and spontaneity.

5. PUZZLES - Mental exercise is important. Often puzzles, video games, or other challenges will stimulate your creative "juices."

6. QUESTION EVERYTHING - Ask yourself why? Preconceived ideas, standard approaches, and thinking you already know the answers are counterproductive to creativity.

7. MEDITATION - Some people have the ability to meditate, clear their mind, and reduce stress through this practice. Try it.

8. DISCIPLINE - A disciplined mind does not mean a rigid one. Scatter-brained, unable to focus individuals do not exude creativity, and if they do come up with a creative thought it will soon be lost in the disarray and confusion of their thoughts.

9. CONNECT - A variety of experiences, friends, associates, and activities will help you develop an alert, expansive, and creative intelligence. Piggy-back on existing concepts. You will not know or understand the applicability or usefulness of inspirations without connections.

10. DON'T GIVE UP! - Discouragement and setbacks are common and to be expected. "Throwing in the towel" will only result in failure and continue a negative cycle. Who knows? - Your next idea may be your best one.

Copyright © 2010, Dr. Ben A. Carlsen, MBA. All Rights Reserved Worldwide for all Media. You may reprint this article in your ezine, newsletter, newspaper, magazine, website, etc. as long as you leave all of the links active, do not edit the article in any way, leave my name and bio box intact, and you follow all of the EzineArticles Terms of Service for Publishers.

Dr. Ben A. Carlsen, MBA, is author of "Bites of Business" http://bitesofbusiness.com
He is an experienced consultant, leader, management expert and educator. Carlsen was Chairman of the Los Angeles County Productivity Managers Network, Chair of the Marketing Managers Association, and President of the Association for Systems Management (So. California Chapter). For more info visit: http://drben.info

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Power Your Mind To Master Creative Visualization

Creative visualization is the technique of using your imagination to create pictures of yourself achieving a desired goal or outcome and focusing on that image until you achieve your objective.

Thought is a power and has its effect on the material world. Thoughts, if powerful enough, travel from one mind to another. If we keep thinking the same thought, people in our environment perceive it and act on it, furthering, usually in an unconscious manner, the materialization of our desires.

Use your natural creative imagination in a more and more conscious way, as a technique to create what you truly want.

Use the power of your imagination to create what you want in your life.

Let go of your limitations - Act Now!

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'Being Cautious Is to Stop Moving': How Innovation and Entrepreneurship Can Bring Societal Change


 New technologies and a growing capacity for innovation are playing fundamental roles in the search for answers to the current economic downturn. At the Wharton Global Alumni Forum in Madrid, speakers from Spain, Rwanda and Nairobi took part in a panel that looked at the social and economic applications of technology and innovation, and how support for entrepreneurship can help raise the standard of living for those in developing countries.
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Techniques To Unlock Your Creativity And Innovation

Have you ever questioned wither you were creative or thought of innovative ideas? I believe at one point all of us has questioned our own ability to create something remarkable; the pressure and expectations from society can be overwhelming especially in a society wired 24/7.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney

But does creativity and innovation need to be the impossible? What about exploring deep within ourselves to unlock apart of us which we thought were only impossible?
We all have our own methods to unlock creativity and create an innovative mindset. Here are 5 which I believe are the greatest methods:

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50 Ways to Foster a Culture of Innovation

As your organization gears up for 2010, here are 50 ways to ensure that it's culture is conducive to innovation. Commit to a few of these today and begin to work your magic.

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How to be creative – ignore everyone

Ignore everybody. The more original your idea is, the less good advice other people will be able to give you.

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"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."

-- George Washington Carver

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"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference."

-- Nolan Bushnell

How to be creative – ignore everybody

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How To Be More Creative

Is being creative something that can be taught? That’s a question without a simple yes or no answer. The more I experience in life and grow as an artist and writer the more I try and put into concrete terms what conditions are necessary for the best moments of clarity and inspiration. Creativity may not be able to be taught directly, but what I am getting better at is frequently aligning the circumstances of life which foster the greatest chances for true creative expression.

Pushing yourself for greater productivity in your art or your profession is great and you shouldn’t stop that - but perhaps equally important is putting your life on a path of being a true creative to achieve absolutely unique results. There isn’t nearly as much value in doing things slightly different than have already been done versus doing things which are truly unique to you. I’d like to share a few philosophies on life I have that may help you in producing the most creative results.

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