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You are a creative person. Yes, you!!! All of us are.

We were born with overflowing creativity. As children we were imaginative and tremendously innovative, but somewhere along the way we had suppressed our creative selves.

Stress, criticism, preconceptions and other internal and external inhibiting forces have intimidated our inner creative child and tucked it deep inside us.

having said that, I do have a secret to reveal to you: our creative child is still there, smoldering inside and waiting to be unleashed.

This is your chance to release your inner child and watch your creativity resurfaces and oozes.

5 Ways To Boost Your Creativity

An helpful guide to keep your imagination and innovation going

Be Alert. One of the main characteristics of creative children is their passion towards life. They are going about life with open eyes and attentive ears and are enthusiastic about everything life has to offer. Children are paying close attention to all the little things that adults tend to ignore. Regain your enthusiasm and try to capture life constantly and actively. Strive to enjoy the journey rather than to achieve a certain goal. Pay attention: listen to the birds twittering every day, watch the flowers bloom in the spring and the leaves change color in the fall. Little by little these small observation will inspire you and spark creative ideas and thoughts in you.

Get Surrounded by Visual Stimuli. You can incite your creativity with visual incentives. Surrounding yourself with visually appealing images can bring out your own creativity and help on days you can't seem to find your muses. Create an "inspiration well". Capture a color combination that you like with your camera or create color swatches with colored pencils. Search for visually appealing images on Google, Flickr, or look for videos on YouTube. Collect magazine adds and articles that visually appeal to you - you don't necessarily need to find them on design and art magazines, you just need to open your eyes.

Read. I cannot emphasize enough how important reading is to our creativity, regardless whether our creativity is expressed in our writing or painting or in making bronze sculptors. Fiction can do wonders in expanding our imagination and creative boundaries. Non-fiction is essential as well, for updating and evolving in our niche. So go ahead, read books, e-books, web-articles. Subscribe to magazines and blogs dealing with your niche. Sign up for newsletters on creativity. Keep on reading!

Give Yourself A Treat. Two of the main obstacles to creativity are the stress and hardships of day-to-day life. We constantly criticize and prevent ourselves from slowing down and catching up. Treating ourselves to a nice walk in the fresh air, a special meal or just a few minutes of serenity on a busy day will destress and rejuvenate us. Eventually, we will allow ourselves to experiment and to learn without bailing out after the first failed attempt at something new.

Practice. Like any other thing in life, also in creativity - practice makes perfect. Try to make something creative everyday. Keep on writing or painting or knitting and try new techniques. Experiment with new mediums. Keep the creative juices flowing, so you won't run dry... However, be careful not to refer to your creative endeavors as a chore or it will quickly become as unwelcome in your life as throwing out the garbage or washing the dishes. Don't forget that your number one goal is to enjoy the ride.

Creativity Prompt

Updates from the Creativity Prompt blog

Find all the stimuli and practice your creativity needs in one place. Maintain perpetual high creativity levels with weekly inspiration, journaling and creativity prompts.

Creativity Headlights

Hot spots for you to get inspired and boost your creativity

The Creativity Prompt Blog: A source of inspiration prompts, journaling prompts and creativity prompts to help you stay creative all week long. You can find many free tutorials there and some giveaways as well.
E-book: "Unleashing The Creative Child Within You": The e-book that will unleash your inner creative child with a surefire program, carefully designed to boost your creativity - one step at a time.
Write From Home: A brilliant resource for freelance writers as well as for other creative souls...
contemporist: Updates on architecture and interior design. This website offers great visual stimuli.
Jennifer McGuire's Blog: Many videos and examples of stunning cards and scrapbook pages. Jennifer McGuire is a beautiful person, just as beautiful as her creations and she offers many ways to use your own creativity for charitable purposes.
Ali Edwards's Blog: Ali is a great artist and her blog is jampacked with creative ideas but even more than you are going to appreciate her creations and ideas, you are going to LOVE her life philosophy.
Claudine Hellmuth's Collages: Find out a new and innovative way to capture your loved ones.
Design Undercover: More visual stimuli for you!!!