How Is Your Creativity?
ByAre you creative? How convinced are you that your attitudes and Self-Esteem help you to be more creative? Would you like to improve your creativity? Here are some ways to do just that:
1. Invest in a creative journal. Write your ideas in the journal daily. Keep track of your ideas at all times. Carry a notebook wherever you go. Keep a notebook beside your bed. Ideas can come at strange times. Frequently, ideas come when we least expect them. The same idea may never come again. So, it is important to make a record of each idea right away. To facilitate this, you may want to carry a notepad and pen or micro-cassette recorder with you at all times. Listen to your hunches and intuitions, particularly during moments of relaxation – before going to sleep or upon awakening.
2. Ask new questions every day. A curious mind is a creatively active mind.
3. Learn about things outside of your specialty.
4. Be flexible. Notice your patterns of behavior. Find several solutions to each challenge. Discover new viewing points.
5. Be open and receptive to ideas. They can be fragile. Listen to them. Freely entertain apparently wild, far-fetched, or even silly ideas. This is part of the creative process.
6. Be alert in observation. Look for similarities, differences and unique and distinguishing features in objects, situations, processes, and ideas. The more new associations and relationships you can form, the greater your chances are of coming up with really creative and original combinations and solutions.
7. Engage in hobbies, especially those that allow you to construct or produce something with your hands. Also, keep your brain trim by playing games, doing puzzles, and mental exercises.
8. Improve your sense of humor. Laugh easily. Humor relieves tension. You are more creative when you are relaxed.
9. Adopt a challenge-taking attitude. Nothing is more fatal to creativity than fear of failure.
So there you have it. Invest in your Self-Esteem to become more creative in your relationships and career and then, watch what happens!
