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Creativity Articles Archive

Welcome to the Creativity Articles Archive.

Here you can find quality articles on a variety of creativity issues. There are currently over 130 original articles and growing.

As well as using these articles for your own personal benefit, you're welcome to use any of them in your own ezine, blog or website.

All I ask is you use them in their entirety and unaltered, complete with the resource box section at the end. Please make sure the link is live if placed in an ezine or in a web site.

All article content is original and © 2006 - Dan Goodwin, All rights reserved.

Browse then click on an article title below to read the full article, or use the search box to find content on a specific area of creativity:

Increase Creativity: Understand The Little Words That Make The Biggest Difference to Your Creativity

Sometimes a simple single word and it's connected ideas and associations can be so powerful, and make such a difference in our creative lives. Here are some that can be the most significant. What do they each mean to you?

Increase Creativity: 5 Ways to Shine a Little Sunshine and Watch Your Creativity Flourish!

When it comes to being creative, we all know the feelings of being tired, uninspired and "not in the mood" to get down to creating. We may feel that whatever we do we're stuck in this defeated mood and mindset and there's no way we can haul ourselves out of it. But the truth is we can positively influence our outlook at any time, and in a instant. So here's 5 ways you can alter your mood and shine a little sunshine down on your creativity...

Creativity Killers! 7 Sure-Fire Ways to Kill Your Creativity - And How to Avoid Them...

There are many ways we can kill our creativity and severely limit our ability to naturally create the projects we have the talent and desire for. Here, in no particular order, are 7 of the most common Creativity Killers, and how we can avoid and overcome them...

Creative Pleasures - How To Enjoy Your Creativity Three Times as Much (at least!)

How much do you enjoy your creativity? How aware are you of the different phases of creative pleasure? And how many of them are you truly appreciating?

Creative Compliments and Creative Criticism: How Attuned is Your Hearing?

How good would you say your hearing is at either end of the sound spectrum? Do you tend to tune in more to positive and complimentary comments, or those that are disparaging and critical? If so, here are some practical approaches that can help...

Creative Day Jobs: How to Support Yourself While Pursuing Your Creativity

How do we manage to develop and explore our own creativity whilst also putting food on the table? Maybe the best way to support ourselves creatively and financially, is not as obvious as we first think...

Struggling to be More Creative? How to Truly Make Space for Creativity in Your Life...

Have you ever tried repeatedly to bring certain new things into your creative life, only for them each time to be ineffective or short lived? Whatever the creative venture, if you have the same pattern of starting, then stuttering, then stopping again, maybe there's something deeper at work that's stopping you...

Increase Your Creativity: Identify Its Number One Enemy

Instead of looking at the things we could add to our lives to enable us to be the creative people we want to be, consider what we could take away, the things that stop us from being creative. What is the NUMBER ONE ENEMY OF YOUR CREATIVITY, the one single thing that prevents you from being as creative as you want to be and have the potential to be?

Creating A Life That's Right For You: Are You Living By Design or Default?

We all have many different areas and elements that together make up our lives. But are the ones that make up your life right now there by design or default? To quote Dr Wayne W. Dyer - "There are some people who live 70 years, and there are some people who live one year 70 times...". Which are you most like?

Creativity and Confidence: How To Supercharge Your Self-Confidence Using Your Natural Creativity

Having an indestructible sense of self-confidence and faith in our own abilities makes achieving the things we want in our life, and overcoming the obstacles that appear before us, become so much easier and less intimidating. So how can YOU use YOUR natural inner creativity to improve your own confidence?

Creative Focus: You Always Get What You Focus On... So Focus On What You Really Want!

What do you focus on and spend most of your time thinking about? The things you want in your life? Or the things you don't want? Whatever it is you focus on, that's what you'll find will appear in your life. So what are some of the ways you can use your natural creativity to more effectively focus on what you do want?

Creative Communities - Why A Life Of Creativity Needn't Be Lonely

Being someone who is highly creative and consistently brave enough to seek new ways of tapping into that creativity can sometimes feel like a lonely venture. So what can YOU do to provide yourself with the support you need for your creativity in times of doubt?

Increase Creativity: By Concocting Your Own Special Rocket Fuel

How would you like to discover a secret that can instantly recharge and rejuvenate you, give you a major burst of energy and set your creativity alight? Well, all that's needed is a little bit of chemistry.

Creativity Is Just Like Mathematics - Addition and Subtraction. No, Wait! Come Back!

Whether you prefer to create by beginning with nothing and adding layer by layer, or starting with a large mass and removing the excess to reveal the beauty beneath, understanding and experimenting with each type can help broaden and increase your creativity.

Creative Sensuality - How Regularly Exercising Your Senses Can Help You Increase Your Creativity

Exercising and stretching our senses can help us be more open to others as well as making it easier to come up with new ideas and solutions for ourselves. Here's a few techniques to try...

The Power of Cumulative Creativity - 5 Compelling Benefits of Creating a little Each Day

The idea of cumulative creativity - creating a little each day to add to your current projects - is an old and much trusted one, but something still overlooked by many of us who aspire to be more productive in our creative lives. Here are some of the major benefits...

Creative Companions - Why We Need Never Really Create Alone

If you find your creative adventures and experiments are often lonely and insular affairs, why not seek out a creative companion? In its most obvious interpretation this could be another person. But what if we open this idea of a creative companion a little wider?

Before you Climb your Creative Mountains - Build up your Strength by Frolicking in the Foothills!

There are few things more de-motivating and depressing than having a huge complex project and not being able to work on it because it simply feels too big and too overwhelming. So what can we do to build on our creative strengths and become better prepared for these huge dream projects, our "creative mountains"?

Creating to Connect - How All Creativity is About Communicating

Anyone who uses their creativity in their career or projects is in some way essentially seeking to communicate. Ultimately, the creative work we all most connect to, hold most dear and remember longest, is that which speaks to us on a deep level of feeling and emotion. How are you making use of this in your own creative projects?

Creative Footprints - What Kind Are You Leaving?

As creative people we affect the world around in ways we never even realise. As you go about your creative life, think about the creative footprints you may be leaving for others to follow...

Give yourself a Cuddle! - Self Care Techniques for the Creative

As creative people, it can often feel a struggle to remain focused, inspired and on track, whether on a particular creative project, or in our lives in general. We can gather support from those around us, but as well as this, or when you feel there's simply no-one around to talk to, try these techniques to take care of yourself...

How to Fall in Love With Your Life

Ask yourself honestly this question - Are you in love with your life as it is right now? Your life is a partner you're going to be with for the rest of your days. Doesn't it make sense to make that partner as lovable and as pleasurable to spend time with as you can?

Creativity Calling on the Radio!

What if there was a secret personal radio channel available only to you? A channel that only you knew the frequency of and only you had the right receiving equipment to pick up the broadcasts? And what if these broadcasts were exactly what you needed to hear? The most exciting and stimulating messages you could possibly want? All the energy and inspiration you need to be as creative as you wish, right there waiting to be tuned into, desperate to communicate their incredible messages and knowledge?

Creativity Hotel - How Do You Treat YOUR Guests?

Every great achievement in the history of humanity started with a single idea. So think for a moment about how some of those ideas may have been treated had they arrived in their initial state at your Creativity Hotel.

How Well Are You Maintaining Your "Creative Home"?

Much like an old run-down house with poor central heating, rattling windows and a leaky roof, if you don't take care of yourself creatively - and look after your Creative Home - then slowly and steadily your creative energy will be wasted and you'll be frustrated and struggling to produce the kind of work you want to.