Everything Creative
I LOVE the topic of creativity! Creativity is mysterious. Creativity is Marvelous. Creativity has now has become one of the biggest buzzwords in business. Everyone in business is trying to either figure out what it is, or how to get it, or how to retain it.
The catch is, are you looking in the wrong place? No need to find it.
You already have creativity, right now.
In your company, are you trying to "think outside the box?"
Are you trying to "think inside the box?"
Well, let me ask you a few questions. Is there a box? What if there is no box?
What about "becoming more creative?"
Can you "be more creative?"
Is this a myth?
You already are creative! If you do not believe it, see it or feel it, you may simply benefit from a Creativity Coach, to receive the needed inspiration, encouragement, motivation, and sometimes, applause, to believe it, see it and feel it.
Sometimes creativity just gets a little covered up and you need a guide, a coach, a CREATIVE NUDGE ... someone who can see the good in you, and sometimes, yes, someone who can find it for you, or, who can point you in the direction it is, or someone to get in there with a shovel with you, to dig it out from where it already sits.
Now, creative thinking ... another topic for discussion. We can ALL think creatively and actually do it all day long. Yes, there is a time for creative thinking and there is a time to not think, to let go of control and to let the creative process flow in the direction it is meant to go.
Do you need creative thinking training?
I think not always. Sometimes we simply need an uncovering of the brilliance that is already there, sitting and waiting to be used to its fullest potential.
Sometimes the creative process actually requires that we not think.
Are you "out of your mind?" Yes? Great! I say, Great!
You are not out of your mind? Well then, "Get Out Of Your Mind and Get In The Flow" as I would say.
The ability to think creatively, yes, is crucial in the business world. It is a skill, and can be learned. There are links to masters in the filed of creative thinking, below. And, creative thinking is not the only way to find creative solutions to business and life challenges, and we must not get caught up only in the mind.
Very often, the best little gems of creative inspiration come from not thinking and through entering into a meditative like state, or by just taking action.
I do not mean that you have to "literally" meditate, although that does work, and I am a 100% believer in the power of meditation. However, that is only one tool and path on the road to creativity.
By not thinking, for example, an abstract painter lets go of control, is "in the flow" and the work simply comes out onto the blank canvas. A songwriters lyrics seem to come from some place other than from rational mind. A scientist gets his best ideas while swimming underwater. Others get ideas in their dreams. Very often great ideas come when you least expect it, when you are not thinking.
This is what I mean by not thinking. Sometimes there is too much emphasis on creative thinking in the field of creativity and innovation, and often what we really need to do is just the opposite ... relax, have fun, have a good time in life, laugh, let go of control, and just let the great ideas show up and bubble to the surface.
This lens is about creativity, innovation, inventions and the passion that comes from deep within the human beings, who create, on a daily basis.
This is about my passion for creativity and for understanding and finding out more about the inspirational people, who inspire us all to use what we already have, and who are, as I am, living the creative life.
Are you living the creative life? Walking your Creative Talk? I want to hear about it! Tell me your story. Stuck? Feeling Not Too Creative? I want to hear about that too.
This lens is also about a Creativity Coach, Brenda Johima, who knows that without a doubt, that you already have everything you need, right now, to live the creative life, in business, work and play. Sometimes, you just need a little nudge ...
Let Creative Nudge Move You To ... and Through the Next Open Doorway.
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Whatever I Want.
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Links to Living the Creative Life
CREATIVE NUDGE: Creativity Workshops, Coaching and Consulting Services For Corporate, Professional, Personal and Organizational Development
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Creativity Portal - Creative Thinking Coaching Creativeness Writing Art Crafts
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Seth Godin: Author, Agent of Change
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Chic Thompson - Motivational Speaker on Creative Leadership
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Planet SARK
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CREAX - Creativity for Innovation
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PBase Photo Database: Creative Photography - Photo Hosting - Photo Sharing
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Your Hidden Business Assets
Creativity + Innovation + Imagination = Happiness
Creativity is not only for arts and culture.Creativity, innovation, imagination, the ability to invent and to think creatively is crucial for YOUR business, science and technology, health, education, construction, for the development of new products, for employment and job creation and, for every day life.
Creating the life, business and career we dream of and long for, requires imagination and creative thinking, combined with the courage to take the action required to get there and to reach our goals.
Creativity and Innovation have made many, many people millionaires, but if millions is not your goal, then live the creative life, simply to be happy.
Creativity Coach and Consultant Brenda Johima knows that "every single person, without exception, is creative" and she wants to work with your company to find that seed within every individual, and encourage it to grow so that people can thrive in a business environment and so that your company may reap the benefits and profits.
Brenda believes that creativity, health and well being and are directly linked, and that creativity is the one asset you cannot afford to miss out on, in your business.
Happy and Healthy Employees are the usual goal for every good employer. Skilled CEO's, managers and employers recognize that every employee is a wellspring of talent and will work to include those talents in the workplace.
Creativity and Innovation Training is crucial in today's market, for any small business or corporation to succeed, to be ahead of the game, and on the leading edge.
Every single person has the ability to think creatively, to solve problems, come up with unique and innovative solutions and to generate a multitude of ideas.
Do you know the gifts, talents and dreams (outside of their job description) of every single employee?
Are you possibly missing out on the greatest asset that your company has?
Creativity Coach and Consultant Brenda Johima brings to the forefront, those talents that exist in each employee. In turn, your company benefits from an increase in innovative ideas, better marketing strategies, increased productivity, product innovation, stronger and more unified teams, creative thinking, and most importantly, happier employees who get to be more of who they really are, while at work.
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CREATIVITY IS BIG BUSINESS
Creativity and Innovation, along with setting up a workplace environment which supports, and encourages creative expression in the workplace is no longer an "option" in business.
It is well known FACT now, that creativity IS big business and that creativity is a necessity, if you want to retain employees, and to attract the brightest and most brilliant creatives, to your organization.
Many countries, cities, individuals and businesses are leading the way by blazing the trail, for increased support for individuality through creativity in business, as a necessary way of life. Here are some of them:
New and Improved: Creating Growth Through Innovation
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Imagine a Toronto ... Canada Leads The Way
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Creativity is Big Business: Queensland Government
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Inkahoots - Creating A Difference
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Creativity In Business Blogs
Blogs to Stimulate Creativity and Innovation in Business
Creative Think: Roger von Oech
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gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"
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Communication Nation: Dave Gray
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"Walk My Creative Talk"
Creativity and Business - Show It Off!
If you are good at something, Show It Off! Flaunt It!You have been given gifts, talents, ideas and dreams, to share with others. As a Creativity Coach, I love to do so very many things, which is why I choose this profession.
I LOVE business, having my own business, creating and changing my business, I love art, music, the creative and expressive arts, science, technology, computers (especially MACs) and pets, dogs, animals and wildlife, and the list goes on, and on and on.
I love life, and all the things I choose to do, and get to do, on a daily basis. Creativity IS business.
In the past, people who did many things, may have been judged or viewed as "scattered" and "not focussed" or "a jack of all trades," meaning they "could not possibly be good at all those things" or that they really were "good at nothing."
Thank Goodness This Has Changed!
The ability to multi-task and to have multiple creative talents IS an asset, to you, your life, your work, career and business. Use ALL of Your Talents and seek out people to do business with, who have this quality also, or who, at minimum, value your diversity.
You can, in fact, do a multitude of things in your life and in your business. How?
I focus and commit 100% of my time and energy into everything I do, in the moment. In the next moment, I may be doing "a different career" or task, but I then commit 100% of my time, energy and focus into that moment.
So, in this way, you can still always create high quality products and services, and have a FUN life at the same time ... and I promise you, you will never be bored.
Brenda Johima
Visual Thinking
Absolutely Brilliant! I Absolutely LOVE This!
Dave Gray, CEO of XPLANE, the visual thinking company explains that "Visual thinking is about using pictures to help you solve problems, think about complex issues and communicate more effectively."
XPLANE | The visual thinking company
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Visual Thinking School
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In The FLOW
Go With The FLOW
Flow, as defined by Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, is "the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing, characterized by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity."
A painter, a dancer, a writer, a jazz musician, all experience flow. How do you experience flow In your business? In your life?
Flow (psychology) - Wikipedia
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Wikipedia
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Creative Thinking
To Think Or Not To Think?
Does creativity come from thought? From intuition? What is creative thinking? How can you think creatively?
Creative Thinking - Michael Michalko
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Edward De Bono - Creative Thinking: Thinking As A Skill
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The World Council for New Thinking
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Creative Process
Creative Process Defined And Models For Creativity
How do you define "creative process?"
There are many definitions and articles which try to define the creative process, however, I do believe that the creative process is unique to each individual, and sometimes, to each different career.
For example, a sculptor, a photographer, a composer, a writer, an artist, a scientist or a mathematician, will likely find solutions to problems from different angles, through their own unique process.
The creative process can also change, dependent on our surroundings, our environment and what may be going on in our lives at any given moment. We each have our own way of reaching the finish line, the end goal, an outcome.
The creative process moves very quickly at times, and we complete multiple tasks at the same time and very efficiently, and at other times, the creative process moves slow as a snail, tortoise and turtle. This is when many creatives on client driven deadlines, and business owners, just wish it would happen faster.
Yet, as the story goes,"slow and steady wins the race."
Working Paper: Creativity Models
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Robert Fritz, Inc: Creative Process: trainings, consulting, courses, workshops
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The Creative Process - How Dale Berkebile Illustration and Design gets results!
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Creativity Defined
What Is Creativity? Does Anybody Really Know?
How do you define Creativity? What is Creativity? Does Anybody Really Know What Creativity Is? What do people believe about creativity? How do you "be creative?"
These are all questions that I ask here, and link to sites and people who do in some way, answer this question, from a variety of different angles.
One of my favorite comments on creativity is by Maya Angelou, who states that "You cannot use up creativity. The more you use the more you have."
Seth Godin, Marketing Guru, and Squidooer, states on his blog that "99% of the time, in my experience, the hard part about creativity isn't coming up with something no one has ever thought of before. The hard part is actually executing the thing you've thought of. The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics."
Rollo May, writer and philosopher defines creativity as "the process of bringing something new into being."
Carl Rodgers, psychologist and writer, defines creativity as "the emergence of a novel, relational product, growing out of the uniqueness of the individual."
Dictionary.com defines creativity as "the state or quality of being creative" or "the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination" or "the process by which one utilizes creative ability."
The Websters Dictionary definition for creativity is "marked by the ability or power to create, to bring into existence, to invest with a new form, to produce through imaginative skill, to make or bring into existence something new."
Brenda Johima says"Life is a Blank Canvas. Fill It With Color." and that "Creativity is a way of life. It is not just about doing things and making things. Creativity is a way of being, a way of thinking, a way of living and breathing and a way of moving through your world on a day to day basis."
Creativity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Self-Coaching Tool For Creativity And Innovation
Box of Crayons and Michael Bungay Stanier
- Box of Crayons Self-Coaching Tool: Get Unstuck & Get Going
- "A Call To Do Great Work."
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Just for the Health of It!
Brenda Johima's Energy Boosting - Creativity Boosting Routine
Energy. We need energy, and creativity is energy in action.
Yes, we can also create when we are depressed, unwell or low on energy, however, there is a different, and for me, a more enjoyable creative process, when I take care of my health at the same time, as part of, my creative process.
That is why at CREATIVE NUDGE Coaching and Consulting Services, we combine business, the arts, creativity and health. They go hand in hand.
So, if you can make time in your day every day for this routine, then great! If you can make time once per week, then great! This routine does take time, however, the benefits are worth it.
Here, I balance health, green drinks. exercise, green tea, and coffee! (I am not ready to give that one up yet, so, leave the coffee out if you choose.)
This is what I did, on a daily basis, in my home based business, for a very long time, and still do, on the days I can make time in my business, for the full routine. Otherwise, it's just fine to do only one part of it:
- 1. Dry Brush Massage
2. Freshly Squeezed Lemon Juice
3. Stretch, Vocalize and Breath Work
4. Green Drink
5. Freshly Squeezed Vegetable or Vegetable-Fruit Juice Combo
6. Swim
7. Sauna
8. Shower
9. Meditate
10. Write
11. Coffee (optional or not optional)
12. Komboucha Green Tea - Peppermint Tea Combo
13. Breakfast
14. Then Go About Your Day and Create, Live, Love, Work and Flourish
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