All Around You Waits Imagination
Imagination is all around you, its energy moving through your mind, body and soul like a soft breeze through a porch screen. Time does not exist where you're not connected to creativity. You may think the imagination connection is turned off but, no it's still humming along waiting for you to tap into it.
You can take your imagination for a walk or put a saddle on it and ride it to the edge of creativity, ball it up and play a game of cosmic hoops that makes you the star of the universe. In another flash you can make your Imagination as small as an atom with 4 little wheels that will drive you around like a quantum taxi careening off electrons and quarks.
In Zen some talk about having 64 moments in the time it takes to snap your fingers and in each one of those moments the universe is created new. Creativity and Imagination are always arising.It may be everything or it may be nothing, it's up to you.
Contents at a Glance
10 Minutes to a Finding It
where did I put my imagination
Does the above sentence remind you of yourself? Do you find yourself bumping into walls and forgetting peoples names or maybe you wake at night wondering where your imagination, where your creative spark went.
Well cheer up there are lots of ways to find that poor lost imagination of yours. What you need to keep in mind is that it's not lost, just misplaced.
Imagination Poll
10 Things
10 things you can do to keep your imagination sharp
Shoe Box It
Get a couple of shoe boxes or file folder and dedicate more...1 point
Daily Do Nothing Time
Set aside 15 or 20 minutes everyday to just sit do more...1 point
Go Somewhere, Do Something (NEW)
Every week go somewhere new. It could be just a lo more...0 points
Find A Contest
look around for a contest and join, it could be ph more...0 points
Search The Dusty Past
Look through the boxes from your past or your busi more...0 points
Eat Somewhere New
Try some food you've never tried before eating min more...0 points
Circle The Wagons
Form the chairs in a circle and have your team or more...0 points
Where Good Ideas Come From
Creative Blogs
- 2012 MacArthur Awards for Creative and Effective Institutions Announced
- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today named 15 organizations in six countries as recipients of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. The awards continue the Foundation's history of building and supporting ...
- Art with Heart displays creativity of students at National Date Festival
- Issac Rodriquez attends the Art with Heart Program at the First Baptist Community Church in Desert Hot Springs. Submitted by Meridy Volz INDIO ? Each year the Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival rolls into the fairgrounds offering a bevy ...
- PSG banking on Pastore's creativity
- The Argentine sensation, who was signed before the start of the season for a French record ?42-million fee from Palermo, is expected to play after a three-week injury layoff that coincided with PSG's lack of creativity in midfield.
- Your Start-Up Life: Advice on Work, Life, and Play for the Creative Class
- Every Thursday at the Huffington Post, Rana Florida, CEO of The Creative Class Group, will answer readers' questions about how they can optimize their lives. She will feature conversations with successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders about how ...
Rise Up! and Create
it's in you, just let it out
Journal Revolution: Rise Up & Create! Art Journals, Personal Manifestos and Other Artistic Insurrections
Amazon Price: $3.96 (as of 02/16/2012)
Journal Revolution inspires with vibrant and edgy pieces and simple techniques. Journaling and scrapbooking take on a whole new meaning, achieving the latest trends of intense urban emotion inspired by honesty and wit.
Creative Links
spotlights on creativity and innovation
- Buchheim Museum
- A single visit to the museum reveals only a fraction of what it really has to offer
- Imagination Playhouse
- Clowning, games, rhymes, cooties, and the usual funny antics of Sammie and Tudie!!
- Who Needs Imagination?
- An Interview with Professor Paul Harris
- Imagine The Universe
- Welcome to Imagine the Universe! (A NASA Site)
- Imagine Tours
- Imagine Tours, now in its 18th year, offers affordable and fun cycling escapes to scenic spots in the western US and abroad.
- Synchronicity in Business
- The right state of mind will make you the kind of person who can enlist the cooperation of fate and take advantage of synchronicity, creating the conditions for "predictable miracles
- Disruptive Innovation
- a curated mix of twitter, blogs and videos all talking about innovation and innovators. this page is quick and snappy and well worth a look.
Jolt That Creative Mind
Caffeine for the Creative Mind: 250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain
Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 02/16/2012)
For any designer or creative type who wants to quickly limber up their imagination on a daily basis, Wired helps readers get into the creative zone, from which all their best work springs. Packed with 15-minute simple and conceptual exercises, this guide will have readers reaching for markers, pencils, digital cameras, and more in order to develop a working and productive creative mindset.
Links to Inspire
see what others are doing and saying
- Wikipedia Definition
- The ever abundant take on the subject from Wikipedia.
- Scientific, Philosophical and Historical Approaches.
- A resource for the study of imagination and mental images.
- Art of Imagination Society
- We intend to assist the resurgence of interest in fantastic and visionary art and make the Art of Imagination accessible to all
- Library of Congress Imagination Gallery
- For Jefferson, Imagination was the realm of the arts.
- Theology, Imagination and the Arts
- The Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA) is a research institute based at St Mary's College,
Creativity Poll
Brooklyn Art Project
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byDo You Need a Whack on The Side of The Head?
A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative
Amazon Price: $5.98 (as of 02/16/2012)
Roger von Oech's fully illustrated and updated volume is filled with even more provocative puzzles, anecdotes, exercises, metaphors, cartoons, questions, quotations, stories, and tips designed to systematically break through your mental blocks and unlock your mind for creative thinking. This new edition will attract an entire new generation of readers with updated and mind-stretching material.
“Creative Edge Cafe...
share your thoughts on imagination and creativity”
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BlueStarling
Nov 2, 2011 @ 11:05 pm | delete
- I admit that I'm in a creative slump right now . . .
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Papier Aug 23, 2011 @ 8:39 pm | delete
- I've never understood creative blocks - have so many problems I'm always trying to come up with creative solutions. Enjoyable lens.
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grannysage
Mar 4, 2011 @ 11:48 pm | delete
- I've never had a problem with not enough imagination, usually I am overloaded with it but can't find enough time to explore it all. I'm forward to later this year when my husband and will start full-time rv-ing. I am all in favor of the daily do nothing time. It is my favorite time of the day, and I intend to increase it whenver I can.
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Janiece
Feb 4, 2011 @ 9:44 am | delete
- In our homeschool co-op, we have one class devoted to thinking outside the box and using one's creativity and imagination. The kids love it!
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webnh
Feb 4, 2011 @ 10:10 am | delete
- sounds great, I think everyone would benefit from such a class no matter their age....
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