How to Be More Creative - Discovering the 11 Hidden Secrets of the Great

in #creativity7 years ago

Steemit-Creative.jpgBecoming creative or innovative can be a difficult task if one didn't know how to go about it.
The question now should be, what are the skills or expertise required to be more creative?
Here are some of the tips that can help you to get rid of dull moment in your life and increase you creative ability to become more innovative;

  1. Reshuffle the Order of Your Daily Routine.
    Doing the same thing the same way every day can be monotonous which will definitely make such a thing become boring. What should be done to make the most of your daily routine? The way out is simple, change, vary or reshuffle the order of your routine by putting number one in the middle, the last in the first etc. You will be surprised at how extra creative you will turn out to be after some time you start this.
  2. Create Positive Feelings about Yourself and Things.
    Feeling negative about one-self or the things you do will do serious damage to your inspiration and innovative instinct. To be constantly get inspired and stimulate your creativeness, you've got be positive about yourself and the things you do. Positive feelings give you the belief that you can do it and do it even better.
  3. Be Curious.
    Curiosity is being eager to get information about anything. People that are curious are inquisitive and always want to know why things are done the way they do. This inquisitiveness did not only make them to be highly creative, it also makes them become great people in life.
  4. Read New Books, Magazines and Journals
    The level of lift that reading can give to creativity is no doubt beyond measures.
    Books and related materials are very good source of motivation for innovations. Anyone that wants to be creating new ideas must cultivate the habits of reading new books. If you don't like reading, you must get an alternative, like listening to audio books.
  5. Keep Journals
    It simply means to take note of your discoveries which could be from books, magazines and journals you read, or from journey you made. Information to be recorded in your journal or diary can also come from observations made or even news going around in your area.
    It's been discovered that what you don't write you forget easily. Therefore, note your ideas or information down immediately.
  6. Learn New Things
    Learning new things is a life time affair for anyone who desires to be relevant all the time. It's been said that if you stop learning you start dying. You can learn from books, news, traveling, observing the sky early morning.
    Therefore, every sound mind must have it in his programs to find out new thing always.
  7. Attend Seminars
    Seminars are good places to get new information and ideas if attended with keen attention. This has helped me in no small ways and can do the same for you.
  8. Associate with Great People
    People you walk with have great influence on you and what you eventually become.
    If it is true that one may become a criminal through association with crime, it is equally not far from the truth that one can become a creativity prodigy by associating with people of great mind and innovations. Therefore, chose your friends and the people that have influence on your life.
  9. Create Happiness around You
    Being happy or having moments of happiness around you always is not someone else's responsibility but yours. If you are serious about being more creative, don't allow any moodiness or dull moment around you at all.
  10. Visit New Places
    Traveling is an adventure. That is why the greatest inventors of our time are people that are adventurous. Do you really want to become great through innovations? Then, you must come out of your shell and visit new places.
  11. Physical Exercise
    Experts have told us how important exercise is to our fitness and brain development. Engaging in regular exercise push way diseases far from your body which results in good health and good health makes you to be in best state of mind which is the source of creativity.
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