CREATIVITY ARTICLES
The canoe is safe on shore; but that's not what canoes are for.
Strawberry Canoe
This old canoe has been planted in strawberries; instead of a rope to tie it to the dock, there is a soaker hose.
Photo Linda Butler, at Chilliwack BC June 05
15 Awesome Ways to Boost Your Creativity
By Diggy De Bruin
Write Your Ideas Down
Get into the habit of writing your ideas down as soon as you get them. This way you train your brain to keep coming up with ideas, and as soon as you get them you write them down. When they are written down you don't have to worry about remembering them and this allows more room for new ideas to form in your mind. More>>>
Boost Your Creativity With Adventure Day
By Christine Kane
Do you notice that your most juiciest ideas never come when you're staring at the computer screen? Do you ever wonder how to get the creativity flowing or how to generate a zest for life? Are you in the midst of great change and know there's something new out there but don't know what it is? If you answered yes to any of these, then it's possible you need to shake things up a bit. You need Adventure Day. More>>>
Easy Steps to Help You Break Through Your Creative Wall
By John Kostrzewski
No matter how experienced, we all hit the creative wall at one point or another in our career. If gone unchecked this creative block could go on for months at a time threatening projects or even careers. The easy answer is to break down the wall that's in your way, but the hard part is finding a way to do that. More>>>
Connecting with Nature Mobilizes the Positive
By Roberta Barnes
Last summer a friend commented how sad it was that I spent my birthday alone. I did not spend my birthday alone, but began my day in an energizing way with smiles. More>>>
10 Ways to Declutter Your Mind and Not Just Your Junk Drawer
By Debra Kasowski
There is so little time and so much to do that our minds get so full of to do lists that seem to never end. It is hard to move forward when you do not even know where to start. More>>>
Is Your Work a Work of Art?
By Laura Lopez
Just the other day while painting, I realized that all work can be a work of art. Not just the art-kind of work, but your work as a marketer, as an engineer, or a lawyer or an entrepreneur...the kind of work that you do to pay the bills, buy a house and raise the kids. You know the work that you often refer to as the-four-letter-word kind of work that is hopefully, yet painfully getting you to that paradise island in the sun you call retirement. More>>>
Native Food and Medicinal Plants of the Boreal Forest
Our knowledge and use of wild plants to sustain and heal us has greatly diminished. Today with concern about the world’s diminishing variety of wild plants, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Agriculture and Consumer Protection “for a world without hunger”, has made this out-of-print reference book available on line: Traditional Plant Foods Of Canadian Indigenous People,Nutrition, Botany and Use By: Harriet V. Kuhnleinand Nancy J. Turner, At http://www.fao.org/wairdocs/other/ai215e/AI215E00.HTM Published online March 09 and originally published by Gordon And Breach
Publishers, Canada, 1991, 2nd printing 1996.
Stop the Destruction of the Boreal Forests
Our boreal forests are being harvested by machinery for pulpwood to make toilet tissue and other paper products. Do you really need to use the softest toilet tissue made from hundred-year old trees? Instead, choose to use toilet tissue made from recycled papers.Read the article in the Vancouver Sun newspaper and visit the Greenpeace website for recommended products.
7 Ways to Boost Your Creativity
By Victoria K. Munro
Entrepreneurship and creativity should go together. But it's easy to get caught up in the daily routine of running a business and handling the related challenges. We can get stuck in a repetitive rut and forget to keep those creative juices flowing. In today's competitive marketplace, it's important to keep fanning that flame of creativity within. More>>>
Five Ways to Get Those Creative Juices Flowing
By Rhia Chohan
We will always get those times when we feel uninspired. Our energy levels feel low and we feel unmotivated and can spend hours staring at a sheet of paper or computer screen waiting for something to pop up in our minds. Fretting over being uninspired can only spiral into a vicious cycle of creative block. Here five tips on relaxing and getting those creative juices flowing. More>>>
Critical Thinking and the Wizards
By Anne Warfield
What's Feeding Your Thoughts? Do you look at the news, read books or magazines that stretch your thinking? To be a Critical Thinker you need to develop the insatiable appetite of reading things, not on the surface level, but instead for the thread lines of connectivity with other things you know. More>>>
The Unreasonable Man, Ten Ways to Be More Creative
By Lesley Charalambides
How many times have you thought, 'We need to stand out from the crowd' or ' We need to think 'out of the box''. There are times when we need to be extra creative - but how? Isn't creativity something you're born with? Is it something you can learn? More>>>
"Cherish your visions and your dreams. They are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." -- Napoleon Hill
Look, all your life, if you are imaginative and creative, you will be copied. Copying is what most people, and most companies do. But the company that wants to stay at the top of its market and command those premium prices just can't copy the copycats by improving its old product, no matter how creative they might once have been. - Tom Peters in Crazy Times Call for Crazy Organizations.
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