7 Tips to Make You More Creative - brillant ideas

Many great things have started as an simple, creative idea. Consider donating some of your best ideas to help others. The more creative you are, the more ideas you will be able to create. You can be creative even if you don’t think you are.

I have known many people that were scared to use a computer for the first few times. However, after diving into it they became more comfortable. They were willing to take a risk and make some mistakes. The result was an ability to learn and do things they would never be able to do without the use of a computer.

Being creative and thinking up world-changing ideas occurs in the same way. Everyone can be creative but they have to be willing to start. The creative process will then become more natural over time.

Try the following tips to help you on your journey to be more creative:

1. Record your ideas on whatever is comfortable and convenient at the moment. What is important is that you record your ideas. In the past, I have forgotten ideas that I thought of when I was on a walk. Now I carry a digital recorder with me on those walks. At other times I use my computer, notepad or journal.
Choose what will work best for you and make sure you have a way to record your ideas at all times. You never know when an important idea will surface.

2. Don’t limit yourself to ideas that seem possible. Capture all of your ideas. Even those that seem impossible to implement are important for a couple of reasons. First, what seems impossible to you may not be impossible sometime in the future or for someone else. Second, impossible ideas encourage further creative ideas that might be more likely to be implemented.

3. Change your scenery or location. A change in scenery can stimulate the creativity inside you. A change might be as simple as looking out a window. You can also visit someplace new like a park, beach, or mall. The new environment can foster new ideas.

4. Read on many topics. It is amazing how many things in a totally unrelated subject can prompt new ideas. By broadening your knowledge into more areas, you make your creativity potential grows.

5. Go for a walk. Some of my best ideas have happened when I was on a walk. This applies to any form of moderate exercise. I have heard of others that have written articles and speeches while waalking or jogging.

6. Focus in 10-15 minute increments. It does not take a significant amount of time to brainstorm some potential ideas. In fact, brainstorming works best when done for short periods of time.
Concentrate for a few minutes on generate as many ideas to address a specific area or problem. Then capture anything that comes to mind throughout the rest of the day (see tip #1). You will have several ideas for consideration for little investment of time. One of those could become something tremendous for helping others.

7. Think big. What question are you asking to prompt your ideas? The larger the question, the larger the impact those ideas may have on the world. You can start by addressing smaller problems but don’t limit yourself to those. You have unique experiences, knowledge and talents that should be applied to helping others on a grand scale as well.

Follow these tips and you will be on your way to generating ideas that have the potential to change the world. Don’t let your previous lack of creativity keep you from developing and donating your ideas. Get started today.

You Must Be An Artist

 “…Meet this solemn question with a strong, simple ‘I must,’ then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse.” – Rilke

 We are, all of us, meant to create. We are creat-ures, thus it is evident in the world around us that as a spider spins a web, a bird builds a nest, humans are possessed of a spiritual and biological mandate to spin and build a world of beauty and function. The human distinction is the ability to make symbols. Symbolism is the art of investing the world around us with meaning by expressing the invisible or intangible through visible or sensuous representation. This is the simplest, the least unsettling definition of art and creativity. From this definition, we have come to believe and to thoroughly accept without question that art belongs to those who paint the paintings, write the words, and mold the clay, into those representations of the intangible and the invisible. Art has therefore been divided into those who do and those who don’t.

 The reinstatement of art into every one of our lives, both in our ability to receive and to recreate it, is to return to living with meaning. Creativity is, like evolution, like all growth and change, an irrepressible force in nature. Thus far, only humans have attempted to turn away from this call, and a case can be made that it is this turning away that is the cause of so much of our pain, suffering, and longing. This suffering, however, is the result of confusion and misdirection, not hapless circumstance.

 Art, like science, philosophy, and civility, is our best defense against the insupportable weight of all that we don’t know. If we could disperse the weight among us citizen artists, come up with a more inclusive outlook, we could lighten the formidable load of ignorance. In the broadest sense, art is a response in whatever form it takes–an expression of the love and beauty and terror as it is given to us through the visible bounty of Nature

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How To Be More Creative And Enhance Your Creativity

Before thinking about how to be more creative, let me begin point out some real barriers that some people seem to have when wanting to enhance creativity, have a think if any of these things are applicable to you and your life;

1. Lack of time. This is not as major as you may think. Linking thoughts and ideas only takes seconds. It can happen anytime, anywhere. Provided you are in the right state and pay attention to your own experience.

Creativity in my opinion is more about the quality of the time you have and being receptive to yourself. Though this does take some time.

2. Fear of being judged. When I worked for a national newspaper and we had brainstorming sessions, individuals were often scared of expressing ideas. Creativity results in unusual ideas and perhaps even being different in some way. They can be thought of as strange, odd or challenging. Fear of being considered weird, stupid or just different often kills creativity. If I feared people thinking any of those things about me, I would not bother getting out of bed in the mornings; I love the fact that people think I am all of those things!!

3. Lack of self-esteem. When you do something creative, you go beyond the bounds of what has been safe and familiar in the past, to yourself and maybe even others. When you are not sure about yourself, being different in any way can feel risky or make you feel vulnerable. The danger is that you give up your new insight to just blend in. Smash out of those shackles!

4. Fear of failure. This inhibits us. If you are making a new connection in your brain there can be no inherent “right” or “wrong” about it. Failure can only have two meanings really; firstly, that it didn’t work in the way you wanted it to. Secondly, Someone else did not like it. But so what??!! I have to tell you all that I get many comments on how I generate so many successful projects and am often asked how I do it. I always point out that these projects are actually only about 10% of what I have imagined. The other 90% didn’t work or didn’t get out of my brain.

   Creativity is not reserved for genius only. Einstein was brilliant but he is not necessarily the best model of creativity for us. You do not need specialist expertise to be creative. The fruits of your creativity may manifest in many, many differing ways, in fact I expect so.

  If at any time you doubt your ability to be creative, remind yourself that several times every night you create an entirely new dream, which you script, act in and watch, which involves all your senses and has effects that can last long after they are over. This creation is so very effortless most people don’t even recognise it as such.

How to be more creative.

Ok, so how does one actually go about getting more creative. Let me give you some ideas;

1. Find the right frame of mind. Explore what states you associate with being creative. Discover properly what it is that triggers and maintains you being creative. What’s your best time of day? The best environment? Do you need to be alone or with others or alone in the midst of others? Do you need sounds or silence or background sounds? Build a profile of your creativity state, then make time and space for it on a regular basis instead of waiting for some divine intervention and for it to just happen on its own.

2. Cultivate dreaming. Pay attention to your experience of life and attention to your existing creativity rather than dismissing day-dreams and dreams. Don’t allow yourself to waste what you may already be discovering by ignoring it.

3. Ask yourself “What if?” and “What else?” and “How else?” Always go beyond what you fist thought, find more and more different ideas.

4. When and/or if you hit a problem, pretend your usual solution is not available. This can work in many different ways. If your PC crashes today, how else might you do your work? If you usually argue face to face, what would happen if you wrote your feelings down instead? Some solutions may be no better than the ones you’re used to: others may offer you brilliant new opportunities. Do something different. I wrote about that idea in an earlier article entitled Do something Different, go check it out.

5. See how many different results you can get with the same ingredients. I am sure many of you know that there is a cookbook called “Recipes 1-2-3″ by Rozanne Gold, in which every recipe is made out of only three ingredients.

Some recipes use the same three ingredients but different processes or quantities come up with different results.

You can have some great fun by taking an every day object and imagine or think about how many other uses it can have, you can even think about how to combine them with other objects.

6. Think of different ways to do the familiar. Change the order in which you do things, use different things, use your less favoured hand; as soon as we break routine, we move from a state where we are on auto-pilot to one where we are alive and alert. You exercise unfamiliar brain connections and help build new links in your brain. A glorious feeling!

7. Look out for the difference that makes the difference. When you encounter something that strikes you as different, ask yourself what it is about it that is so different or new or unusual. Where does the key difference actually lie?

I want to mention a strategy that is well talked about in NLP circles and that I have used for many years and that is the Disney Creativity Strategy.



The strategy separates out these three vital roles involved in the process of translating creative ideas into reality so that they can be explored separately for maximum clarity and effect.

Many companies have specialists in each of the three fields and I have done consultancy work with companies myself whereby I have asked different team members to take on one of the roles. You can also play all three roles yourself as I often do in coaching or business consultancy, with your own wants, needs and goals.

However, the usual way to use it is to allocate three roles to different people (realist, dreamer and critic) to assess plans or tasks. Ask someone to act as the dreamer and tell you all the possibilities of the idea. Ask someone else to examine exactly what would be involved in putting it into practice (realist), and someone to take a hard look at it and really evaluate its strengths and weaknesses (critic). You may want to rotate the roles. If doing it on your own, be sure to keep the roles very separate and write them down. I do this with lots of my own ideas and with changes I want to make in my life.

You can even use this in a meeting broken down into three stages; Each role as a separate stage. Get everyone brainstorming and being creative first; then get them thinking about what would actually have to happen in practical terms; then get them critically evaluating the possibilities.

I suggest that you have some fun being creative and doing things differently to generate more creativity. It feels wonderful and if you have found that your progress to success or the outcomes you desire has been blocked or gone stagnant, then think about being more creative in how and what you are doing.
The Disney creativity strategy is for developing your dreams and giving them the best possible chance of becoming reality. It is named after Walt Disney, who often took on three different roles when his team was developing an idea; the dreamer, the realist and the critic. Robert Dilts, an NLP pioneer, modelled and developed this strategy as an NLP tools. Some of Robert’s articles that he kindly donated can be found at my website.

Creative Imagination - coming up with new ideas

Creative imagination is more than just active imagination. To be able to actively imagine things, to see and hear things in one’s mind, is an important ability. It doesn’t have to involve much creativity, though, does it? Daydreaming, for example, is a process of imagination. It can consist of an elaborate fantasy world, but one full of all the things that many people think about.

Creative imagination, then, has to include the ability not just to imagine things, but to imagine original things. It is seeing things that others don’t see, and coming up with new ideas. So how do you cultivate this?

Creative Imagination 101

First, exercise your basic imagination. It can be as simple as thinking in pictures more, or listening to music in your mind. Play little “movies” in your mind, until you can watch them on command. This is a simple process, but for those of us that can’t easily do it naturally, it can take a lot of practice. Fortunately, it is not an unpleasant activity.

The second part of developing your creative imagination is to get more creative in your thinking and imagining. Start by paying attention to your creativity. Our subconscious minds give us more of what we pay attention to. Ignore creative aspects of your life, and you’re telling your subconscious they are unimportant. On the other hand, if you note when you’re creative, your subconscious mind will start feeding you more creative ideas.


Different surroundings can also encourage your creativity. Want more creativity in your love life? Hike up a mountain with your partner. Do you write? Try sitting on a roof to write. Want new ideas for your business? Take a notebook to the park and sit by the duck pond. A change of environment can get your thinking out of it’s ruts.

You can play games that exercise your creative imagination. One such game uses a technique called “concept combination.” Alone or with other players, you combine random concepts or things in new ways, to see who has the best idea. A thermometer and a billboard, for example, could generate an idea for a sign that checks the weather and adjusts the message accordingly (“Come in out of the heat for a cold beverage,” or “Come in out of the rain and warm up with our gourmet coffee.”).

Don’t Wait For Creative Imagination Creative inspiration certainly can strike at any time, but it strikes more often when there is work instead of waiting. So if you want to come up with creative inventions, start mentally redesigning everything you see. Imagine a better bicycle, a faster mail service, or a better chair. Continue this for three weeks, and it will become a habit.

Of course, creative imagination goes beyond solving specific problems or inventing things. Truly creative minds are always coming up with the questions too, not just the solutions. If you want to be more creative all the time, focus on three things:
 

 1. Changing your perspective. A child might think that working just to not work (to retire) is silly. Thinking from that perspective might give you ideas for how to make money doing things you enjoy. Seeing the world as a bear sees it might give a painter imaginative new ideas. Looking at things from a customer’s perspective is a sure way to find creative improvements for a business. See everything from several perspectives.

2. Challenging your assumptions. What if restaurants didn’t have employees? Visitors pay a machine as they enter, feed themselves at a buffet, and everything is as automated as possible, so one owner-operator could run a large restaurant alone. Challenge all your assumptions for practice. Do you really have to pay rent? Do swimming pools need water? Can exercise be a bad thing?

3. Let your ideas run wild. Does a flying bed seem silly? It could lead to the concept of a helium mattress. When you get off it in the morning, it floats out of the way, up to the ceiling. Perfect for small apartments. Don’t stifle your creativity. Relax, and let ideas come. You can always discard them later.

For these techniques to be a habitual part of your thinking, use them regularly. Since it takes several weeks to develop a habit, remind yourself to use them each day. Jot a few of your favorite techniques on a card and carry it with you. Look it over throughout the day and apply the techniques to anything. Soon, you’ll have a more creative imagination.

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calligraphy courses : Four Popular Scripts Used in Arabic Calligraphy

الحمد لله رب العالمين

Arabic Calligraphy is the art of writing, or elegant and stylized letters. It is harmonious and aesthetic education of Arabic characters with a pen or brush and ink. In the Middle East, calligraphy is an art form highly valued and developed. His genius lies in the creativity and endless versatility.

Arabic calligraphy was born in the seventh century, when Muslim scholars decided to write the Quran after the Prophet's death. For a long time it has been used exclusively for writing the holy book. Not anymore.

Today, 1400 years later, Arabic calligraphy can be seen everywhere - Tickets cities and homes to clothes and Islamic jewelry. This article is an introduction to the art of beautiful writing in Arabic and in languages ​​that use the Arabic alphabet - Persian, Hausa, Pashto, Punjabi, Urdu and others. This is a summary of the five major styles developed by calligraphers who write Arabic letters.

(1) Riq'a

Riq'a Arabic writing is most commonly used today. It is rounded and densely structured with short horizontal stems. The letter Alif (the first letter of the Arabic alphabet) is never written with barbed heads. Riq'a was a favorite scripts used by calligraphers of the Ottoman Empire, which refine the infinite - which contributes to its current popularity.

(2) Diwani 

If Riq'a was widely used in the Ottoman Empire, Diwani was the result of Ottoman calligraphers. At the end of the 15th century, an original Persian and Turkish calligrapher Ibrahim Munif created Diwani. The most distinctive feature is the variety ornamental Diwani. The spaces between the letters are used for decoration. Diwani is highly favored to write in the imperial palaces.

(3) Kufi

Kufic script is a very angular. Its square shape gives it a unique look. It was developed shortly after the introduction of Basra Kufat - Today two cities in the Middle East. Its main use was religious. It could be due to the geometric construction of Kufi - which is not limited to strict rules. Therefore, calligraphers write Kufic are free to experiment on your own.

(4) naskh

With Kufic, Naskh is one of the first scripts used for Arabic calligraphy. It is one of the few scripts deemed appropriate for the Koran. Naskh is easy to read and write. These qualities have contributed to the spread of writing - from the terraces of the calligraphers of the general population. Naskh is written with short horizontal stems. The curves are deep, letter spacing is decent and upright position and high depth are approximately equal.

drawing lessons for beginners

When I describe my method of teaching drawing as "directed drawing" exercise sometimes get the comment that directed drawing stifles creativity. Another observation is that "Directed draw only encourages students to imitate the teacher." Not only am I agree with these comments, but I dare say that most of the things we learn as children, we learn as a result of management and imitating our teacher, father or brothers and sisters.

For most people who are trying something new, often the best way to learn is to find someone who can teach us. As children, we learn to observe and as we age, we learn by listening to those around us. In our years of growth, often we are taught to be led through a series of steps. What direction provides in general, is the framework upon which we can build our skills.

In the definition of the idea of ​​a school environment applies to most areas, but especially in reading, writing and math. Students are first introduced to the letters of the alphabet to see the letter and then go through a series of exercises to learn how to write this letter. Often the way this letter is presented in the paper is formed by a series of steps. This applies to math and to learn how to put numbers on paper first, then move on to more complicated equations. Drawing on my mind is really no different than learning to create letters and numbers.

Drawing is a skill that can be taught. The same we have a framework for writing, but can also be a framework for drawing. When this framework, which enables students to acquire the skills that will help students in the direction of becoming an artist applies. For the drawing, the steps are very simple. If a person can draw circles, squares and triangles, then you can take almost anything you can see. The trick is to learn the steps and sequences. My experience has been that most children in kindergarten and can even learn the three basic geometric shapes. The trick, then, is to "live" their attention to where these forms are in an object, and then provide the steps to complete a picture of what they see.

The same goes for activities directed creativity knee? For the purposes of this discussion, I will use Shakespeare as an example. William Shakespeare probably had to learn to read and write like other children at school. I think it would have been shown or "directed" in the form of letters and words. No doubt Shakespeare, like today's children learned to write by copying or imitating phrases placed before them by the teacher. I do not think it stopped or stunted his creativity as a writer anyway. He went on to become one of the most famous writers of plays, poetry and sonnets. For a more modern example, I look at my teenage son who is learning to drive my car that has a manual transmission. Much time is devoted to guidance on how and when to change gear. Spend your time watching how it's done, then he has the opportunity to practice what they have learned. At first, it sticks pretty close to what has been taught. Is it done more creative with your driving skills and my car next? I have no doubt it will. The same applies to the drawing.

In a recent class of sixth graders learn to draw three-dimensional houses. Once the investigation is completed his mission was to get your dream house. Most children think in terms of a conventional square house and peaked roof. One child decided his dream house was a beacon and used his newly acquired drawing skills than she imagined. His creativity has been stifled by the first directed drawing lesson? I do not think I would think that the lesson gave him the confidence to move on to something different.

Perhaps art and music is unique in the sense that if a person is not as good as they think they should be then they feel they can not do this activity. Spontaneous drawings of young children, which in turn judge our work against others. in addition,

"Because many teachers feel they" can not draw "themselves, you certainly can not expect to teach drawing to children. Given the lack of adult encouragement in this area, it is not surprising that many children leave drawing at the age of eight years or more. "- Tony Godfrey - Drawing dating with children

The above scenario does not occur. Directed design is one of the best ways to instill confidence in your skills teacher and the student. The "I can not" soon became "I can", and once you feel you can then creativity flourishes.

In response to the comment "directed drawing only encourages students to imitate the teacher," I would say this: teacher led activities should open doors and a good teacher in turn, will encourage students to explore beyond what was taught .

Author, designer and photographer
Stephan Baker

My belief is that anyone can learn to draw, just the desire to do and instruction. It is in this spirit that I have created step by step instructions for making the things we see around us in simple ways. When working with students, I tell them that if they can draw circles, squares and triangles that can pull anything they can see. Almost every child I taught in kindergarten through twelfth grade can learn from these three forms.

I am also aware that for some children symbolizes errors gums. My step by step drawing program is set up so that the child does not have to delete all lines. What obtained from visits as part of the final image and erasure is not required. Success is a big part of my mission when it comes to design, and the methods they use guarantee that even those who think they can not shoot, you can.

How pencil drawings help to develop the skills and creativity?

When the lack of adult artists with a pencil, turning to painting with color, and when he realized who also found problems in painting the same basic design, which gives them an apology to avoid touching the same subject.

If you are one of them, I suggest you to overcome this problem once and for all.

1 Success always comes to those who take the trouble to deal with the problem and try to keep it until you reach the goal.

2 and drawing skills not only improve if you do not exercise and again.

3 Once you are successful in the drawing, the question arises about choosing a theme to draw, for example:

A. Given a real problem in the development of still images using a pencil. When you are tired of getting a result, they call for abstract painting.

Disadvantaged B. But really the real situation is much better than the graphic / zip code. Once again you're stuck in the beginning, the base level of the drawing, and you continue to watch over and over.

4 function: Can understand the fundamental problems facing the pencil drawing, which helps to overcome St. errors and that will really help you in the colors, which are related to nature.

5 best and most important issue will be resolved is control. Artists can not draw what you want to call because of the lack of control over the drawing tools.

6 to understand the requirements of the technical pencil drawing, such as:

A sharp pencil shading

B. Hold a pencil in different ways

C. The pressure applied during stretching.

7 You need a large number of patients, and learning to draw with a pencil before going elsewhere. This will help you solve your problem in a much more based paint pencil drawing. Thus, using the pencil drawing in skills development and creativity.