Being More Creative
Feeling in a rut? Want a new outlook? If you're willing to take a risk, why not do something different and help yourself see things differently.
Here are some simple ways to unlock your own creativity and get a fresh perspective:
- Move where you sit in your office or home.
- Take a walk in a different route each day and write down what you observe.
- Begin writing down all of your thoughts as soon as you awake in the morning. Before you become engaged in actives and commitments for the day, you are more able to connect with your subconscious thoughts and ideas.
- Drive home a different route every day.
- Ask others what their thoughts are on a topic. Then sleep on the pros and cons of what they suggested for the night before you respond or act. While you sleep, your brain will process and organize your thoughts.
- Do some brainstorming. For example, list all the pros and cons of any decision you might make, even if they seem peculiar.
- Open a dictionary page each day. Go to the first word you do not know and learn about it, even do a web search on it. Mental stimulation generates new thoughts.
- Explore something new each week. Read about or research a topic normally not in your sphere of interest.
- Keep a journal or your thoughts and observations during the day.
- Rearrange your office or home furniture (or both).
- Buy a set of audio tapes to listen to while traveling to and from work.
- Practice association thinking. Write a word on a piece of paper and then draw lines from the word and note your thoughts.
- Do something you have always wanted to do, but have kept postponing.
