40 Creativity and Innovation Articles – Unleash Your Creativity

One of the topics I write about on “Abundance Blog at Marelisa Online” is creativity. My main focus is on personal creativity. Here are the creativity and innovation articles I have published in this blog so far, all 40 of them.

Creativity Techniques

• Three Incredibly Effective Techniques for Creative Thinking: Three incredibly effective creative thinking techniques that will help you to solve problems and generate ideas.
• Need Fresh Ideas? Go Streetcombing: Sometimes the best ideas aren’t found sitting behind a desk, but outside, in the street. Go Streetcombing!
• Mind Maps: Everything You Need to Know: A mind map is a whole-brain method for generating and organizing ideas which is largely inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s approach to note-taking.
• 20 Creative Thinking Techniques: You can overcome routine thinking and stimulate creative thought by using specific techniques that will help both stimulate and constrain your mind so that it can solve problems more effectively and generate more ideas.
• Lateral Thinking: Think Out-of-the-Box: Edward de Bono coined the phrase “lateral thinking”, which involves approaching problems from diverse, unexpected angles and from different perspectives.
• Creative Thinking Techniques: The “Playful” Edition: Creativity experts have long known that play is one of the most effective creative thinking techniques that there is.

Creativity Tools, Videos, and Resources

• 17 Resources to Awaken Your Right Brain: For all those who feel stuck in the left-side of their brain, and who desperately want to awaken their right-brain hemisphere, here you’ll find 17 resources to help get you started.
• Make Your Workspace More Creative: One of the best things you can do to increase your creativity is to create an environment which gets your creative juices flowing.
• 5 Creativity Videos on YouTube: Watch these fantastic and highly inspirational creativity videos.
• 25 Audacious Creativity Tools: In this post you’ll find over 25 different tools to help kick your creativity into high gear. This list includes a wide range of tools, such as creativity cards, tools to scribble, idea markets and a random word generator.
• Awesome Creativity Blogs: A great way to get inspired is to read great creativity blogs.
• 30 Creativity Cards: A Gift I Made For You: Here are 30 creativity cards which you can print out and glue onto index cards or heavy stock paper to help you when you need creative inspiration.
• Creativity Primer: As Daniel Pink explains in “A Whole New Mind”, in today’s economy right-brained skills and abilities are becoming more and more important. In light of this, here’s a “Creativity Primer” I put together.

Creativity and Innovation Books

• 101 Creativity & Innovation Books – Your Creativity Library: Here are 101 Creativity and Innovation Books for your creativity library.

Collections of Creative Bits and Pieces

More Fabulous Creativity Posts

• Creating In the Dark – Your Sacred Dance: What do you do when you can’t yet make a living from your creative endeavors and your work hasn’t been recognized?  You create anyway.
• Three Ways Limits Can Set Your Creativity Free: Instead of thinking of limits as constraints or as obstacles that block your progress toward achieving your goals, start thinking of them as valuable allies.
• The Yin-Yang of Creativity: Creativity is about putting on your faded overalls, rolling up your sleeves, and punching in each day to dig into your work. And yet it’s also about pausing, taking breaks, and letting your mind wander.
• Creativity Whacks to the Head – Roger von Oech: Roger von Oech is an internationally-recognized creativity consultant.  His book, “A Whack on the Side of the Head”, is a classic in the field of creativity and innovation.
• Fun, Whimsical Gift Ideas for Creative People: Here are some great gift suggestions for the creative people in your life.
• Use Creativity to Double Your Way to a Million Dollars: A while back I came across a free report written by Stuart Goldsmith called “How to Double Your Way to a Million Dollars”. Combine what Stuart teaches in his report with some creativity, and see what happens.
• Solve Everyday Problems Creatively: Get into the habit of actively looking for creative solutions to the everyday problems that are all around us. In this article you’ll find some examples of how creativity can solve routine, everyday problems.
• Four Creativity Lessons From the Impressionists: The Impressionists ignited a revolution with their use of color and movement. Their style perplexed critics, created scandal, and ushered in modern art.  In this article you’ll find four creativity lessons from the Impressionists.
• The Future Belongs to Those Who are Intrinsically Motivated: Intrinsic motivation is motivation that comes from the pleasure a person gets from the task itself, or from the sense of satisfaction in working on the task.  One of the keys to creativity, happiness, and the realization of your full potential is the ability to be intrinsically motivated.
• The World Needs Alchemists: Creative Capitalism:“Creative Capitalism” is a term popularized by Bill Gates at the 2008 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It refers to harnessing market forces to address the needs of the poor.

How to Be More Creative – A Handbook for Alchemists

• “How to Be More Creative – A Handbook for Alchemists”: Your Guide to Leading a More Creative Life: This is a description of my eBook, “How to Be More Creative – A Handbook for Alchemists”. I’ve included testimonials, links to reviews, as well as the book’s introduction.
• An Excerpt From “How To Be More Creative – A Handbook for Alchemists”: In this post I share with you an excerpt from my eBook, “How to Be More Creative – A Handbook for Alchemists”, which did not actually make it into the eBook, simply because I wanted to limit the size of the document (it ended up being 130 pages long).

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My ebook “How to Be More Creative – A Handbook for Alchemists” explains that creativity is not the sole domain of the arts but is important in any field. Whatever you do, creativity helps you do it better. Discover practical advice on how to be more creative in every life endeavor by reading my ebook.

The Sedona Method is a simple, powerful, easy-to-learn technique that shows you how to let go of any negative, unwanted or painful feelings you may be experiencing at any particular moment. It consists of a series of questions you ask yourself that lead your awareness to focus on what you’re feeling in the moment and gently guide you toward letting it go. Read my review of the Sedona Method here.