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Creativity Coach Dan Goodwin helps people who are frustrated they're not making use of their creative talents and abilities. A highly creative person himself, in writing, and in his outlook on life, Dan has felt what it's like to have a head bursting of creative ideas yet at the same time feel incredibly limited in how to express this creativity and move forward. Dan's Creativity Coaching methods allow people to discover how they can increase their ... [More]

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  • How to Create Perfect Art
    [Arts-and-Entertainment] As anyone creative knows, unless you create perfect artwork every single time, there's not much point even picking up your tools. A perfect end product is way more important than enjoyment or experimentation or developing as an artist, after all. Here's your 5 step guide to creating perfect artwork effortlessly.


  • How to Give the Tired Old Dog Known As Your Creativity Permission to Be a Bouncing Puppy Again
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Does your creativity feel as energetic and full as life as a bouncing puppy? Or more like a tired old dog? Read on to find the key to giving that puppy permission to run free once again. It' not too late.


  • 5 Compelling Reasons Why It's So Important to Create Every Day
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you create a little each day? Even if just for 15 minutes, it's the most powerful habit you can have for your creativity. Here are 5 of the top reasons why.


  • Writer's Block Does Not Exist
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] If you believe in writer's block, you give it power and influence over you, an open invitation to severely limit your ability to write freely. But what if I told you writer's block did not exist?


  • Writer's Block - How to Rise Up and Join the Non-Believers of Writer's Block
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Do you believe in writer's block, and that it can strike at any moment and debilitate your ability to write freely? Maybe it's time you joined the non-believers. Find out more in this article.


  • Why You Already Know How to Make Yourself Happy
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] Believe it or not, you already know how to make yourself happy. Here's a simple technique to help you rediscover happy times of the past, and bring more of them in the future.


  • Are You a Living Creative Artist Or a Cold Production Machine?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Being creative is different to being productive. Churning out the same artwork time and time again seems creative, but how much is it really nurturing your creative soul, your need to explore, to play, to express what's inside you burning to get out? Read on to find out how you can ensure you remain a human creative artist, not simply a production machine.


  • How to Avoid Completely Overwhelming Yourself With Creative Projects
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you have a stack of unfinished and abandoned creative projects that make you wonder not only if you'll ever finish any of them, but whether it's worth start anything new, only for it to be consigned to the same "work in progress" pile? Here's how to stop overwhelming yourself with creative projects, and why it's important that you do.


  • How to Remember How to Enjoy Your Creativity Again
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] When was the last time you actually created freely and enjoyed yourself, rather than constantly feeling under pressure to create something amazing, and in very little time? Creating is supposed to be fun, but sometimes that feels like nothing but a distant memory or a hopeless dream. Read on to find how to remember to enjoy your creativity again.


  • How to Open Your Creativity to the Warm Symphonies of Inspiration All Around You
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] There are many layers of sensory stimulation around us at any time, but often we completely tune out of them and walk round in a dull haze. Here's how to rediscover these warm symphonies of inspiration surrounding you and use them to inspire your creativity.


  • Be More Creative - Is Your Creativity Starving, Tired, Broke and Out of Inspiration?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you feel all out of new creative ideas and inspiration? Is your creativity tired, washed up and in need of a major new injection of SOMETHING? Read this article to find out how to reinvigorate your creative inspiration today.


  • Why the World Desperately Needs You to Be As Creative As You Can Be
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Feel selfish spending time on your own creating? Here's why not only is it necessary for you, it's selfish NOT to give the world your creativity.


  • How to Be Creative - Why Every Day is the Only Way
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How often do you create? Once a week? Couple of times a month? "When you have time"?! If you want to see your true creativity shine through, the only way way to create is every day. Here's why it's so important, and how it's much easier to do than you think.


  • How to Beat Procrastination - Are You Denying the Reality?
    [Self-Improvement:Time-Management] One of the greatest tricks procrastination pulls is convincing us we're not procrastinating at all, but busy with essential, urgent tasks. Like checking our email again, making a snack we don't really want, or rearranging the contents of our fridge. Read on to learn the crucial first step in how to beat procrastination and stop wasting hours, days and weeks of your life...


  • 5 Effective Ways to Avoid Creative Block
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Ever feel completely stuck creatively, without a single idea or direction to head in? We've all been in the grips of creative block, and by following these 5 effective tips, you can avoid going there too often again!


  • 5 Top Techniques to Stop Creative Block
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Tired of being creatively blocked and not knowing where to turn or what to do? Start here, with 5 top techniques you can put to use right away to help stop creative block.


  • How to Beat Procrastination - Why It's Not About WHY You Procrastinate
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] So you admit you procrastinate, and want to overcome it. Surely the next logical step is to analyse WHY you procrastinate? Well, no, here's why that will simply lead to even MORE procrastination, and what to do instead.


  • 5 Ways to Be a Wonderful Supportive Parent to Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you know to be a good parent to your creativity? Here are ways we commonly neglect our creativity, and what to do to be supportive instead.


  • Creativity and the Senses - Are You Wandering Around With a Bucket of Custard Over Your Head?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How in touch with your senses are you? Being aware of your senses is crucial to being as creative as you can be. Here's why it's so important, and how you can make sure you're fully appreciative of yours:


  • How to Have Endless Creative Ideas With the Magic Bullet Point Method
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Without creative ideas to develop there is no creativity. Here's a method I've come across to have a constant stream of creative ideas. You can start using it right away:


  • Save Your Inner Artist! How to Reach Out Before You Fall Down
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] These days there's a wealth of support out there for creative artists. Here's why it's so important, and how YOU can get the support you need before you slump into a state of lonely creatively blocked isolation.


  • Creativity and the Senses - Fantastic Fusions and the Diesel Girl
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How aware are you of your senses? Unless you appreciate your senses and how you can use them to enhance your creativity, you may as well be wandering around all day with a huge duvet wrapped round your head. Read more about the importance of your senses in this article.


  • How to Use Your Dreams to Enhance Your Creative Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Do you ever get to a difficult point in a story and feel stuck, not knowing how to progress the plot, how to develop a character, or how to best describe a scene? Or do you simply feel you lack ANY new ideas to start creative writing projects? Whichever is true, if you need new inspiration and direction in your writing, there's a huge source of knowledge right within you.


  • Creative Writing - 5 Reasons You're Not Living Up to Your Creative Writing Potential
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Each of us has far greater creative writing potential within us than we realise.   How often do you feel you're writing at your very best level, and produce writing that you're very proud of? If the answer is "hardly ever" or "never", then read on for 5 reasons you might not be living up to your full creative writing potential.


  • Creative Writing - How to Write in Your Sleep
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] If you thought sleep was simply for rest and rejuvenation, then think again. This is one of the most fruitful times to gather new creative ideas, and get guidance on your creative writing. Here's how:


  • How to Turn Your Creative Mind Into a Wild Teenage House Party (Without the Morning After)
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Struggling to have enough creative ideas? It's because your party's just not cool enough! Read on to find out how to turn your creative mind into a wild party full of ideas.


  • How to Become a Prolific Creative Writer in Fifty Words
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] If only you didn't have so many restrictions you'd be able to write so much more freely and prolifically, right? Well, in fact, by imposing a few limitations, you actual free yourself more. Read on to find out why, and to learn a great technique you can use to enhance your creative writing today.


  • How to Capture Your Creative Ideas and Watch First Seed Become Full Bloom
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Having ideas is no good if you never capture them and develop them. But unless you capture them properly, they'll all seem weak and next to useless when you go back to them. Here's how to record your ideas in their fully glory and watch them flourish.


  • How to Find Your Natural State of Creative Flow
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Creative flow is when you can create undisturbed in sessions that last hours, right? The kind of sessions that rarely, if ever, happen? No. Finding your natural state of creative flow is about developing your underlying mindset, giving your creativity permission, and creating every day. Here's why, and how, this can work for you.


  • How to Have a Hundred Great Creative Ideas in a Hundred Days
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] If you struggle to come up with good creative ideas, or any ideas at all, read on for 5 tips that'll help you have at least a hundred ideas in a hundred days. But the lack of forthcoming ideas means that instead you feel like Superman in a world without crime. The core of all creating is having ideas.


  • Why Your Creativity is Like an Infinite Tub of Delicious Ice Cream
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you see your creativity as finite, and live in fear that one day it'll just dry up, never to flow again? You needn't worry, as here's why in fact your creativity is like an endless tub of gorgeous ice cream.


  • Why Working on Multiple Creative Projects Doesn't Make You a Serial Adulterer
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you feel guilty that you have 2 or 3 or more creative projects on the go at once? It's OK! Read on to find out why it's doesn't mean you're flaky or unfocused.


  • The Biggest Single Reason You're Not More Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you know the single biggest reason you're not more creative? It's not what you think. Keep reading and all will be revealed.


  • How to Have More Creative Ideas - Are You Making This Classic Mistake?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] One of the biggest issues creative artists like us have that stops us being more creative, is believing we never have any good ideas. The problem is not that we don't have the ideas in the first place, but we simply forget how many ideas we do have.


  • How to Choose the Best Creative Project to Create Right Now
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Being overwhelmed with all the possible creative projects you COULD start is a common issue for creative artists. Here's how to choose the best one for you to start work on right now.


  • 7 Secrets to Having All the Creative Ideas You'll Ever Need
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Looking for a way to come up with and develop more great creative ideas you could ever need? Read on for 7 secrets you can start putting to use right away.


  • The 5 Fundamental Laws of Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Everything we create begins with a spark of an idea. Creativity defined in its simplest terms is bringing stuff into being that wasn't there before. That starts in the mind with a phrase, an image, a theory, or a melody.


  • What Are the Best Self Care Techniques For Creative Artists?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Whatever your preferred ways of creating, all creative artists need certain elements in our lives to be able to create most freely, and to explore our full potential. Learning how to take care of yourself and your creativity is a crucial part of this. If you had a car that you never got serviced, didn't bother having fixed when things went wrong, didn't replace the tyres and the brakes when they wore out, before too long you'd be driving around in something that was falling apart and limping from destination to destination.


  • How to Motivate Yourself to Be Creative Again
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Creating is a joyful experience, something that enriches our lives each moment we spend doing it. Hang on. No that's not quite true.


  • How to Find Time to Create - The One Percent Wake Up
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Is one of the reasons you're not more creative because you don't have enough time? In my role as Creativity Coach, one of the most common reasons people tell me they're not more creative is because they don't have time.


  • Creativity For Life and the Myth of the Ex-Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] There are many dangerous and destructive myths surrounding us as creative artists. One of the most damaging is believing we have a limited supply of creativity.


  • The 2 Major Reasons You Think Creative Writing Exercises Aren't For You - And Why You're Mistaken
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Creative writing exercises are a great tool to help you naturally evolve into the best writer you're capable of being. But there are two common reasons why writers avoid using them. Read on to find out what they are and why your fears are misguided.


  • How to Choose to Make Yourself Happy
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] Ever feel like the whole universe is against you being happy? Though sometimes it doesn't feel like it, you can CHOOSE how happy you are. Read on for the 5 most important steps you need.


  • Why It's Not Selfish to Make Yourself Happy
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] One of the most common reasons people aren't more creative is because they feel spending time creating is selfish. Here's why that belief is so misguided, and why in fact it's selfish NOT to create.


  • Why It's Your Duty to Find How to Make Yourself Happy
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Finding ways to make yourself happy not only benefits you, but all of those whose lives touch yours. But you probably don't believe that. Read on to find the evidence that proves it to be true.


  • 5 Killer Creativity Tips to Make Yourself Happy
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Being more creative means being happier. Here are 5 ways to increase your creativity - and your happiness -today.


  • Choose Creativity - The Natural Way to Make Yourself Happy
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Being more creative means greater happiness. But it's not that simple. Read on to find out why choosing to create what's most important to you is the best way to find how to make yourself happy.


  • Make Yourself Happy With These 7 Creativity Boosters
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] For creative people like us, a sure way to greater happiness is to allow ourselves to become as creative as we can be. But that's often easier said than done. Here are 7 practical and usable ways to increase your creativity and make yourself happy, starting today...


  • Stop Tolerating, Start Creating - What Are You Tolerating That's Silently Destroying Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] What have you adapted to and simply tolerated that is slowly destroying your creativity, drip by drip, day by day, without you even noticing? Read on to find the damage this can do, and how to take the first step to overcoming it.


  • How to Be a Sunlight Source - Not an Energy Vampire
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you know anyone who's tiring just to be around, such is their negativity and critical outlook? These Energy Vampires can drain your creative energy in an instant. What you may not realise is an Energy Vampire lurks within you too. Read on to find out how to keep it at bay.


  • Creative Writing Exercises - Why They're More Valuable to Your Writing Than You Think
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Have you been quick to dismiss using creating writing exercises because you think they can't teach you anything new? Take another look at what you could be missing out on...


  • Creative Goals - Why the Most Important Goals of Your Life Are the Goals You Reach Today
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Goal setting is all about planning for 3 years, 5 years or 10 years into the future, right? Well, it can be. But in reality, the most important goals are the ones you've achieve each and every day. Read on to find out what this means and how you can start today.


  • How to Use the 3 Depths of Creativity to Keep Your Creativity Freely Flowing
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Although creating comes at an almost infinite number of levels, there are 3 main ones that we create at. Read what these 3 are, why each is so important, and how combining them all will help you lead a fulfilling and happy creative life.


  • Creativity Killers - Are You Addicted to Toxic Thinking?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Toxic thinking can destroy your creativity before it's even got close to running at its full potential. Read on to find exactly how to recognise whether YOU are addicted to toxic patterns of thought.


  • Creative Ideas - The Secret of the Infinite Pyramid Source
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you believe there's a limit to the number of great creative ideas you can have in your life? If you do, it will seriously limit your ability to create freely. Learn the secret of the infinite pyramid source and let your creative ideas coming flowing in...


  • Creativity and the Fear of Repeating Yourself - Are You Really Stuck in the Rut You Think You Are?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] It's easy to feel stuck in a rut if you create similar work a few times over. But there are valid and valuable reasons that this is a natural part of your evolution as an artist. Read on to find out more.


  • Be More Creative - How to Embrace the Joy of Happy Accidents
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you create with such careful planning and precision that any hint of a making a "mistake" or doing something "wrong" fills you with fear? Read on to find out all about Happy Accidents, and how to embrace them to enhance YOUR creative life.


  • 5 Reasons You Need to Come Out of the Closet As a Creative Artist
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Are you creating in secret and hiding your creative talents even from those you consider close friends? Here are 5 reasons why it's time to say out loud: "I'm creative and I'm proud!"


  • How to Reach Total Flow in Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How often do you reach a state of Total Flow in your creativity where space and time dissolve into the background and you're totally lost in the joy of creating? If it's less often than you'd like, read on to discover how to reach Total Flow in YOUR creativity more easily and more often.


  • Creativity - Why It's For Everyone, Not Just For Artists
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Creativity is not just about the traditional arts like music, painting, photography. When we limit our views of creativity in this way, we dismiss the dozens of ways we create each and every day. Read on to find out why creativity is for all of us, not just for the "artists"...


  • Letting Your Creative Ideas Grow Up Into What They Always Wanted to Be
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] What do your creative ideas want to be when they grow up? Do you give them the space and encouragement they need to naturally evolve? Or do you already decide from the moment they appear exactly what they'll be and force them down this path whether they're willing to go or not? Read on to find how these different approaches have a radically different impact on your creativity...


  • Creativity Secrets - Think "Play" Not "Product"
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How freely do you let your creativity flow when you're working on a project? Read on to see how focusing only on the end product can limit your creativity more than you realise, and discover a more playful alternative approach.


  • How to Set Your Creativity Free to Dance!
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] When you create, do you allow your creativity to dance freely? Or can it only create in certain specific ways, within the strict boundaries and detailed plans you make in advance, and never deviate from? Read on to find out why YOUR creativity needs to be set free to dance, and how it can take its first steps today.


  • I'm Not a REAL Artist - Are You Dismissing Your Creativity Without Even Realising?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Though you might not realise it, the beliefs you have around the art forms you create in can seriously impact how creative you are, and how happy you allow yourself to be. Read on to find out why, and whether you're sabotaging your own chances of being creative and happy.


  • Creativity - Not Just an Outfit For Special Occasions
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Does your creativity come into action about as often as your favourite party dress, a few times a year? Here's why creativity is NOT just an outfit for special occasions but something to use every day.


  • 3 Powerful Ways to Boost Your Creativity This Weekend
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Looking for ways to give your creativity a new lease of life? Here are 3 great creativity boosting techniques you can start to put into action this weekend.


  • Time to Create - How You Convince Yourself You Don't Have Time to Create
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How often do you wish if only you had more time to create, if only you were able to commit time to the creative projects that really mattered to you? This is one of the most common reasons we feel we can't be more creative. But what if you've simply convinced yourself you don't have time? Read on to find out how to start to find your back to the truth...


  • How to Increase Your Creativity With Visualization
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] At the core of being creative are regular creativity habits. But if your recent experiences of trying to create have been at best a struggle, and at worst just plain miserable, it's very difficult to motivate yourself to go back to try creating again even once. Read on for a powerful creative visualization technique you can use to reconnect with how to create freely once more.


  • Creativity and You - How to Make the Love Affair Last For Life
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Your relationship with your creativity is one of the most valuable and rewarding you'll have in your life. The article will helps you rediscover that value, and includes 7 key questions you can ask to get back in touch with why creativity is so important in YOUR life.


  • How to Overcome Your "Story" About Why You're Not More Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] What are some of the reasons you'd say you're not more creative? I expect you could quite easily come up with a comprehensive list. What you may not realise is that ALL of these reasons actually come under a single reason. And it's the same reason why any of us are not more creative. Find out what it is - and how you can identify and overcome it in YOUR creative life - in the following article.


  • Creative Beliefs - How Are Your Beliefs Affecting Your Ability to Create?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you realize how significant an affect what you believe about your creativity has on how creative you actually are? Read on to find out about two artists who achieved the same results, yet where one sees success and pride, the other feels disappointment and dejection, simply because of their contrasting beliefs. Which are YOU most like?


  • Creative Ideas - Are You Rejecting Your Children at Birth?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How you capture your creative ideas (or don't) is one of the keys to being as creative as you know you can be. But have you been rejecting your best ideas at birth, before they've even had a chance to grow? Read on to find out...


  • How to Rediscover Your Natural State of Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] We all have within us all the knowledge we need to be as creative as we have the potential to be. Yes, you too. To find out why this is so, and to start finding YOUR way back to your natural state of creativity, read on...


  • Creative Communities - Why There's No Need to Struggle to Create Alone
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you often feel like you're creating all alone, not knowing if anyone cares what you're creating, or if anyone knows you're creating at all? You needn't feel so isolated. Read on to find out why.


  • Rediscovering Your Creativity - How to Get Your Toes Wet
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Getting back to former levels of creativity, when you've barely created a murmur lately can be incredibly intimidating and difficult. Here's how to take the first step back to free flowing creativity...


  • Creative Flow - The Secret to a Happy Creative Life
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Finding your own unique creative flow is the key to being able to create freely and abundantly. But what is this flow, and how do you go about finding it? Read on to find out...


  • 5 Ways You're Sabotaging Your Creativity Without Knowing It
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] You might not realize it but you're probably limiting your creativity in any number of ways. Here are 5 of the most common forms of creative sabotage, and how to avoid them. How many do YOU recognize?


  • How to Be Creative - Why It's Not a Sin to Sometimes Be Bored of Creating
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Sometimes as creative people we get a little bored with one medium and want to try something else. Then, we feel racked with guilt, and that we should be thankful that we've found one form we enjoy, and that it's somehow wrong to need other stimulation. Read on to find why being bored is not only natural, it's actually necessary for your continual creative evolution.


  • How to Use Creative Writing Prompts to Become a Better Writer
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Creative writing prompts are a great tool we can use to explore and expand our writing, especially when it feels like we can only churn out the same old words and phrases time and time again. So how do writing prompts work, and why should you consider using them in your writing? Imagine your creative writing potential is a vast ocean, stretching off into the distance for as far as you can see.


  • How to Be Creative - Why Creativity is About More Than Just Making Art
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Believing that you're only a "real" artist if you have paintings in galleries around the world or novels in every high street bookstore is a sure way to demotivate yourself and stunt your creativity. Here's why you're already far more creative than you think you are, and why making art is only a small part of being truly creative.


  • How to Believe in Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Whatever your creative ambitions, if you don't have the right beliefs in place to support them, you'll always find yourself frustrated and falling short. Here's how to believe in your creativity like never before.


  • Be More Creative - How to Visualize Your Most Creative Self
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] When it feels a struggle to create even a few words, notes or brushstrokes, the last thing you want to think about is the future, and what you're going to create in the next 6 months, year or 2 years. Being able to create in the next 2 minutes seems a far more pressing concern! But it's actually during these times of creative stickiness that a little forward vision can be the perfect antidote.


  • Creativity - Not an Optional Extra
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How do you see creativity in your life? Maybe you see it as an optional extra, some nice little luxury you can indulge in now and then? Read on to find out why, if you want to be truly creative and happy, this outlook will only end in frustration and misery.


  • Creative Beliefs - Are You Keeping Your Creativity Tethered on a Short Leash?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Your creative beliefs are what determine how creative you are, even when all other circumstances in your life are ideal for being highly creative. Limiting beliefs equals limited creativity. Read on to find out if your creative beliefs are holding you back, and what you can do to set yourself, and your creativity, free...


  • How to Find the Perfect Time to Create
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] When's the perfect time to create? How can you ensure that all the right conditions are in place to allow you to create as easily as possible? Read on to find out...


  • 7 Most Common Creative Roadblocks and How to Drive Through Them
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How often do you create as freely as if you're cruising down a huge empty highway in a beautiful sports car with the top down and the wind in your hair? It's more likely you're limping from roadblock to roadblock, never able to get any momentum. Here are 7 of the most common creative roadblocks and how to overcome them.


  • Creative Ideas - How to Tap Into Your Endless Supply of Creative Ideas
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you often feel you could be far more creative if only you had more good creative ideas? Well, in fact you have more ideas than you realise. You're just not aware of it! Read on to discover how to take your idea generating abilities to new levels and tap into your own endless supply of creative ideas.


  • How to Create Happily in Your Own Unique Way
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Trying to create art work similar to that of your role models is a sure way to disappointment. If you don't, you feel inadequate and second rate. If you do, you feel like a human photocopier, uninspired and unoriginal. So what's the answer? It's all about narrowing the Expectation Gap.


  • How To Be More Creative - What's The True Value Of Your Creativity?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] If you're looking to be more creative but don't actually place much value on your creativity or what you create, you'll always be in an uphill battle with yourself. Read on to find out how much you really value your creativity and what a crucial difference it can make.


  • Creative Killers - Is Your Creativity Dying From Deprivation?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] There are certain elements we all need to remain healthy and alive. Sleep, food and oxygen are three that are essential. Almost as important for creative people like us, is the need to create. But are you torturing yourself with creative deprivation? Read on to find out more.


  • How To Be More Creative With A Magic 3 Letter Word
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Asking questions is a sign of a healthy creative mind. But ask the wrong types and you'll lead yourself down dead end after dead end and be completely blocked. Read on to discover the magic 3 letter word that can make all the difference in moving you forward in your creative life today.


  • How To Find, Feel And Follow Your Natural Creative Flow
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] The more I've studied creativity, the more I've heard from my readers and creativity coaching clients, and the more I've observed my own patterns of creating, the more I've seen that being as creative as you can be is all about flow. In basic terms this means you can't not create for weeks then go and expect to be instantly be at your creative peak and produce the most amazing artwork for 10 hours solid, before going into another extended "creative hibernation". Finding a base level of creative flow, then nurturing and building upon...


  • Creative Support - 5 Ways To Tell If Your Friends Are Supporting Or Sabotaging Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do your friends and family support the creative life you're trying to lead? Or do their seemingly innocent comments actually have a deep lasting negative impact on your creativity? Here are 5 of the most common ways to look out for.


  • Be More Creative - 7 Powerful Creativity Secrets You Didn't Realize You Already Know
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Are you ready to learn 7 secret creativity boosting techniques? What might surprise you is that actually they're not all that secret, you already know what they are! You just don't KNOW you know them... Carry on reading to find out more...


  • 7 Steps To A Super Creative You
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Here are 7 steps to becoming super creative in your unique way. Any of these tips used alone are powerful, combine many of them and your creativity will soar! Step 1: Eliminate creativity-limiting beliefs.


  • 5 Creativity Killing Habits You Don't Even Realize You Have
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Being more creative isn't just about finding lots of new ways you can increase your creativity, additions you can make to your creative life to make it all flow more smoothly and easily. More powerful than adding new techniques is reducing the kind of habits you already have that are seriously limiting your creativity, maybe without you even knowing it. So here are 5 top creativity killing habits, how to recognize them, and what to do instead...


  • I'm Creative And I'm Proud! Coming Out As A Creative Artist
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you create openly and proudly? Or do you only create behind closed doors when no-one is looking, guarded with secrecy, never telling anyone you create a thing? Read on to find out why this approach is far more destructive than you realise, and how you can start to be more creative and proud of it from today.


  • Be More Creative - Let Your Creativity Come Out To Play!
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How often do you let your creativity come out to play? How often do you just experiment with materials and ideas, and focus on the creative experience rather than a perfect end product? Read on to discover just how vital an attitude of creative play is if you want to be as creative as you can be.


  • Creative Ideas - Should I Always Have A Detailed Theme Before I Start My Creative Projects?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you sometimes find yourself so hung up on finding the perfect theme or concept for a new creative project that it prevents you from even starting to create it? A common held belief is that you need a precision planned theme before you can start to create. Read on to find why this belief is so dangerous, and what you can do to avoid it.


  • Creative Ideas - The Biggest Reason You Don't Have Enough Good Creative Ideas
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you find you have an endless flow of as many great creative ideas as you need? If the answer's "No", then read on to discover the major reason why you don't, and a technique you can use to generate all the creative ideas you'll ever need...


  • You Are Not Creative - Is This True?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] When you believe without question that you're not creative it severely restricts your creativity, as if you're putting it in a straight jacket. What we believe becomes our reality - the reality that dictates our lives - even if it's based in a distorted version of the truth. Read on to find out how creative you REALLY are and how to get to the truth that's far more positive than you might think.


  • Increase Your Creativity - Are You Killing Your Creativity With Too Much Freedom?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Creative freedom means all the time, materials, resources and you need, so you have the maximum possible choice. Doesn't it? Read on to find out why in fact you could be killing your creativity with TOO MUCH freedom, and what to do instead.


  • Be More Creative - 5 Most Damaging Mistakes You're Making In Trying To Be More Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you know some of the common mistakes we make when trying to be more creative? Because we live with ourselves day in, day out, it can be easy to overlook the simplest things that are actually damaging our creativity far more than we realise. Here are 5 of the biggest creativity limiting mistakes there are.


  • How To Choose To Create The Life That's Right For You
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How often do you feel that everything in your life is going just as it should, you're creating freely and without a care or a struggle in the world? Rarely? Never? Though it's easy to forget, the fact remains that we always have a choice in who we are and what we do. Use this powerful technique to start to reconnect with your right to choose, and create the life that works for you.


  • Be More Creative Today - 5 Techniques To Breathe New Life Into Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Been feeling creatively blocked lately? Here are 5 different ways to breathe new life into your creativity and help you back to full creative health.


  • Creative Ideas - 3 Steps To Producing An Endless Flow Of Creative Ideas
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] The creative idea is everything. If you don't have any ideas, you have nothing to create from, nothing to mould into the beautiful creations you're capable of creating. So here's your powerful 3 step plan to generating an endless flow of creative ideas.


  • Increase Creativity - Create The Vessel And Your Creativity Will Gush Forth And Fill It
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Your creativity is always ready in the background waiting to be invited to create. All it needs is a vessel or a frame to fill, an invitation, and it will gush forth... Not sure this applies to you? Then carry on reading to find out how you can start using this idea to help you be more creative from today.


  • Be More Creative - Are You Making Space In Your Life For Creativity To Fill?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Are you struggling to be more creative, though it feels like you've tried EVERYTHING? Sometimes we're so focused on trying to cram in more ways of being creative, we forget to make space in our lives for that creativity to fill.


  • How To Be More Creative - Simple Principles For A Life Of Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Though we're all unique in what, how and why we create, there are simple principles that we can live by, habits and routines we can follow to help us be more creative. How do you find these "Simple Principles" though, the ones that will work best just for you? Read on to find out:


  • Be More Creative - How To Shake Off The Shoulds That Choke Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] When you create, do you find yourself weighed down with "shoulds", like: I should be more creative / I should get my paintings right first time / I should be creating this way because that's what writers do..? These kind of expectations can choke your creativity and stop you evolving into the wonderful creative artist you can be. Read on to find out how to start shaking off the shoulds and freeing your creativity today.


  • Increase Creativity - 5 Reasons Why Creating Every Day Is The Only Way To Be More Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How regularly do you create these days? As often as many times a day? Or as little is once or twice a month? Read on to find out 5 of the best reasons why forming a daily creative habit is a sure-fire way to be more creative.


  • Be More Creative - 5 Creativity Boosting Benefits Of Creating Every Day
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you create every day? Or do you only create now and then, when you have time, or when you're "in the right mood"? Read on to discover 5 creativity boosting benefits of creating EVERY day that you can't afford to miss:


  • Be More Creative - 5 Reasons To Let Go Of Trying To Be Perfect
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you often spend hours trying to finish your creative projects, trying to get every last detail absolutely perfect? Not only is this very tiring, but it becomes an addictive and ever shrinking habit that slowly chokes virtually all life and freedom out of your natural creativity. Here are 5 of the top reasons to let go of trying to being perfect in all you create:


  • Creativity Secrets - 5 Ways You Can Be More Creative Today
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Are you struggling to create? Do you feel like you've tried everything to be more creative but you still feel stuck and demotivated? Then read on for 5 creativity secrets to help you be more creative today.


  • Overcome Perfectionism - 5 Top Reasons Why It's Good To Make A Mess
    [Self-Improvement] How much of a grip does perfectionism have on your creativity? How much more creative could you be if you didn't get caught up in trying to make every last detail of every creative project absolutely perfect? Read on to find 5 top reasons why it's good to let go a little and make a mess in your creative life...


  • Be More Creative - 5 Power Questions To Unleash Your Creativity Today
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Are you looking for ways to unlock that creativity within you that deep down you know is bursting to get out? Then here are 5 powerful questions you can ask to help you be more creative today.


  • Be More Creative - Discover The Magic Well at the Bottom of Your Garden
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] At the bottom of your garden is a magic well that contains all the creativity you'll ever need. To find out exactly what I'm talking about, and to learn the fundamental factor that determines just how creative you are (or aren't), carry on reading.


  • How To Be Creative - Are You Choosing NOT To Be Creative Without Even Realising?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Creativity is a choice, and there are key elements to choosing a life of creativity. If you're not choosing to follow them, you're choosing not to be as creative as you can be. Read on to find out which you're not doing and how you change that from today onwards.


  • Creative Self Sabotage - 5 Creativity Killing Mistakes And How To Avoid Them
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How have you sabotaged your creativity today? You might be surprised at the question and claim you don't sabotage your creativity at all. Read on though to find 5 of the biggest creativity killing mistakes you could be making time and time again without even realising:


  • Be More Creative - Use The Powerful 3 Step AIM Method To Create What Really Matters
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How often have you started a new creative project with high expectations, struggled to maintain your enthusiasm and after much anguish abandoned it for something else? The more often this happens, the more frustrated you feel, and the harder it is to create again. So here's an effective 3 step AIM method to help you focus on creating what really matters to you, so you can give your full energy to the creative projects that you're truly passionate about.


  • Your Inner Critic - Stop Wrestling, Start Dancing! New Ways to Deal With Your Inner Critic
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Creative resistance is simply anything that prevents you creating freely and to your full potential. It's the driftwood in the river, that if it builds up enough can seriously divert the natural course of the river, or even block its flow completely. Most creative resistance comes from inside, it's the doubts, hang ups and fears you have around creating, the distracting and damaging chatter of your inner critic.


  • Creative Self-Sabotage - 5 Fatal Ways You Stop Yourself Creating & What To Do Instead
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] The biggest obstacle to you creating freely and easily is you. Even if you're not always aware of it, there are many fatal ways you sabotage your creativity and hold yourself back from realising your full creative potential. Here are 5 of the most common and how to take a more creative option instead...


  • Create And Be Happy
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] When you create what you love, it can bring happiness like nothing else. So why don't we do it more often? Read on to find some of the possible reasons, and why it's your duty to create and be happy despite them...


  • Creativity Secrets - 5 Ways To Experiment And Supercharge Your Creativity Levels
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How much do you experiment in your creativity? Or do you find you stick to tried and tested methods, materials and ideas, however predictable and dull they've become? Here are 5 great ways to try today that can rejuvenate your creativity through a little experimentation:


  • Be More Creative - 5 Steps To Discovering Your Full Creative Potential
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Are you creating close to your full potential? If the answer's less than a resounding "YES!", read on for 5 effective techniques to help you create deeply and consistently. You can start using them right away...


  • How To Clear The Mental Clutter And Create More!
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Imagine for a moment that you own an art gallery. On the walls hang some of your favourite paintings that you've collected over years of exploring and gathering, the pieces that have moved and inspired you most from the hundreds you've seen. Just stepping into the large main room, with paintings proudly displayed on each wall, is enough to connect you back to what art can really do, and how it can enrich life like nothing else.


  • Increase Creativity - How To Erase The Negative Thought Tapes In Your Head
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] The only person who ultimately stops you being more creative is you. If you're plagued by negative messages endlessly looping around in your hand it can be almost impossible to create freely. Continue reading for a powerful technique to replace those negative tapes with something far more supportive of your creativity.


  • How To Create When You're Overwhelmed With Creative Options And Ideas
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Sat there with a blank page or canvas being able to create absolutely anything sounds wonderfully freeing at first. But this freedom is usually quickly replaced by feelings of being completed overwhelmed by all the possible options! Read on to find out how to carry on and create anyway when you're faced with this debilitating dilemma.


  • Creative Writing Exercises - 5 Ways That Exercises Give New Life To Your Creative Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Do you have the enthusiasm to write but lately have struggled to find the ideas and the direction? By using creative writing exercises you can give new life to your creativity, as well as the focus and direction you've been lacking. Read on to find out why they're so effective:


  • Creative Writing Exercises - 5 Reasons To Use Exercises To Enhance Your Creative Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Are you frustrated with always feeling stuck as to what to write? You know you have the ability and the enthusiasm to write but you just can't seem to get going? Read on to find out 5 of the top reasons why using exercises can enhance your creative writing today:


  • Creative Writing Exercises - 5 Top Ways That Writing Exercises Help You Become A Better Writer
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Are you looking for new ways to explore more of your creative writing potential? Creative writing exercises are a very effective way of helping you experiment and evolve as a writer. Read on for 5 of the ways they can help you and your writing today:


  • Creativity Secrets - Learn The Power Of Creating With Intention
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] When creating has become a struggle, it can feel like there are a hundred and one reasons why, a hundred and one obstacles stopping you from creating as freely as you know you're capable of. The thought of trying to determine which are having the most damaging effect on you creating, then trying to find a way to overcome then, seems too overwhelming to even begin to tackle.


  • Be More Creative - Are You Denying Yourself Permission To Be Creative?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] When we're feeling less than at our full flowing and creative best, it's easy to look at external sources to try to explain why we're creatively under par. But the bottom line is, the one person who limits your creativity more than anyone else in the world can, is you. And much of the time, you don't even realise how and when you are stopping yourself from being more creative.


  • Creative Self Sabotage - 5 Favourite Sabotage Techniques Of Creative Artists & How To Avoid Them
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How often are you limiting your creativity without even realising? Read on to discover 5 of the favourite self sabotage techniques of creative people, and how to beat them.


  • How To Create As Easily As You Breathe
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How easy do you find it to create? Does your creative energy flow like the breath of a Buddhist meditating on a mountain top? Or is it more like a heavy smoker wheezing after a brisk run on a cold morning?


  • Be More Creative - 5 Hot Questions To Get Your Creativity Sizzling
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] When you've been struggling to create as freely as you'd like, it can be all too easy to get stuck in a frustrating negative spiral, and lose touch with how enjoyable and rewarding creating can be. Here are 5 powerful questions you can ask yourself to bring about that shift in thinking that can inspire your creativity and get it sizzling again.


  • Creative Writing - How To Choose The Writing That's Right For You
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Do you often feel so overwhelmed with all the different options, styles and ways you COULD write, you end up writing nothing at all? It's a common dilemma, and there are ways to overcome it. So read on to discover how to choose the writing that's right for you:


  • Creative Writing Prompts - 5 Top Ways To Fuel Your Creative Writing With Prompts
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Have you found it difficult to write anywhere close to your full potential lately? Maybe you've struggled to write anything at all? Creative writing prompts are an excellent tool to boost your writing again. Read on for 5 of the top ways they can help:


  • Creative Writing Tips - 7 Ways To Generate A Gushing Flow Of Creative Writing Ideas
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Do you struggle to have enough good ideas for your creative writing? Do you feel you never get close to being able to explore your full writing potential because you don't have the ideas to get you started? Then read on for 7 top ways to generate a gushing flow of creative writing ideas...


  • Creative Writing Secrets - How To Have A Constant Flood Of Wonderful Ideas For Your Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] One of the biggest blocks to be able to write to your full potential is feeling you never have any good ideas. All creative writing begins with an idea, so with no ideas, there's simply no writing. Here then are your steps to having a constant flow of wonderful ideas for YOUR creative writing:


  • Creative Writing Ideas - 7 Secrets To An Endless Flow Of Creative Writing Ideas
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Do you often struggle to have enough good ideas for your creative writing? You're not alone. Read on for 7 secrets to generating more creative writing ideas than you'll ever need:


  • How To Give Your Inner Critic The Day Off
    [Self-Improvement] The negative and destructive voice in your head - often called your inner critic - can virtually paralyse your creativity with a single phrase. But it needn't have such a powerful hold over you. Here's an effective 5 step technique to give your inner critic the day off, whilst YOU get on with creating what matters to you...


  • How To Increase Creativity By Celebrating Your Senses
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Everything we appreciate and call "art" stimulates one or more of our senses in a way we enjoy and want to return to. It follows that, as creative artists ourselves, we're should be in touch with each of our own senses as fully as possible. Once we begin to celebrate our senses, we automatically enrich and increase our creativity. Read on to find out how YOU can be a more sensual and creative artist, starting today:


  • Be More Creative - 7 Ways You're Choking Your Creativity - And What To Do Instead
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] There are a whole host of ways you're choking your creativity. And you probably don't even realise you're doing most of them. Here are 7 of the most common, see which you recognise, and how you can loosen that grip and let your creativity breathe a little more freely again:


  • Be More Creative - 7 Winning Strategies To Help You Be More Creative Today
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Are you looking for new ways to be more creative? Is your creativity flagging and in need of a boost? Then try one of these 7 top strategies to help you be more creative today:


  • Be More Creative - 7 Top Ways To Give Your Creativity A Big Hug Today
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Sometimes your creativity will feel a little deflated or down, and in need a big hug to perk it up again! So here are 7 top ways you can give YOUR creativity a big hug and get it flowing freely again today...


  • How To Be Creative With A Blindfold On & One Hand Tied Behind Your Back
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] To be at your most creative, you need to be open to as many options as possible, right? Well, no actually. The more boundaries and limitations you place on your creative projects, the more creative you can be. Read on to find out why it's actually easier to create blindfold and one hand tied behind your back.


  • Creative Writing Exercises - 5 Reasons Why Writing Exercises Improve Your Creative Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Creative writing exercises are one of the most effective ways of helping you explore your creative writing potential. Read on to discover 5 ways writing exercises can help to juice up YOUR creative writing today...


  • Creative Writing Confidence - How To Take The Shackles Off Your Creative Writing Talents
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] How much you write - and how well you write - are far less about your writing talents than about your writing confidence. You can be the most gifted writer in the world, but if you have no confidence in your work, you'll struggle to write much of anything. So how can you become more confident in your creative writing?


  • Writer's Block - 5 Top Techniques For Beating Writer's Block
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Writer's block is when you can't seem to write freely. The harder you try, the more difficult it seems, and the more stuck and frustrated you feel. But you needn't suffer from writer's block when there are so many effective ways you can avoid it.


  • Creative Writing Prompts & Creative Writing Exercises - Essential Tools In Your Writer's Toolkit
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Having a set of techniques and tools you can use to unlock your creative writing potential is essential to be able to write as freely and as consistently as possible. Creative writing prompts and exercises are very effective tools to have in your writer's toolkit.


  • Creative Writing Secrets - The Only Route To Becoming A Better, More Creative Writer
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Whatever techniques and tips you learn for your creative writing, there's ultimately only one real way to become a better writer. Read on to find out what it is, and how you can start to bring it into YOUR creative writing life.


  • Creative Writing Exercises - 7 Ways To Enhance Your Writing With Creative Writing Exercises
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Are you looking for ways to give your creative writing a boost? Maybe you feel like you're always writing the same kind of words and sentences time and time again? Either way, using a few creative writing exercises is a great option.


  • Creative Writing - 5 Wonderful Ways To Boost Your Creative Writing Today
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Has your creative writing been feeling too predictable and routine lately? Maybe you've been struggling to come up with any new ideas and ways to enjoy your writing? Read on, for 5 great techniques to enhance your creative writing today:


  • 5 Creative Beliefs You Must Have To Reach Your Full Creative Potential
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Our beliefs define what we achieve, so the more limiting our beliefs are, the more limited our creative work will be. Do you know 5 of the most important creative beliefs you must have to be able to create your best work? Read on to find what they are...


  • Creative Writing Prompts Can Help You Get Started - Re-started & Finished In Your Writing Projects
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Have you found yourself getting stuck with your creative writing lately? Whether you're struggling to start, re-start or finish off a writing project, creative writing prompts can give you just the boost and inspiration you need to get writing. Read on to find out how:


  • The Secret To Creative Happiness - The Choices You Make Plus The Action You Take
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Though we're each unique, seeking to find our own path through life that's right for us, there are many "secrets" to leading a happy, fulfilling, creative life that we can all learn and apply. One of the most fundamental is this simple two step formula...


  • How To Make Space For Creativity In Your Life
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How much space do you make in your life for your creativity? It's easy to get caught up the "if onlys" and blame everything under the sun for you not being able to be more creative. But you have the choice to make your space for creativity in your life in many ways. Here are the 3 key areas we most often overlook, and how to make space in them for your creativity starting today...


  • How To Create What Matters In Your Life
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Are you creating what really matters in your creative life? If your life were to end tomorrow, would you be able to proudly say you lived a full and rich creative life? If not, here's a powerful exercise you can use today to help you get focused - and into action - on what really matters in your creative life.


  • Be More Creative - How To Actually Finish Some Of The Creative Projects You Start
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] A huge source of creative block is having an ever expanding stack of unfinished creative projects hanging over you. This drains your creative confidence and slowly and surely makes it harder and harder to start anything new, because you don't want to add to the unfinished pile. Read on for a great technique to help you finish the projects you start, and so help you be more creative:


  • Creativity Secrets - Your 5 Essential Elements For Being Highly Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Whatever you create, to be able to do it consistently and to reach your full creative potential, there are various essential elements you need in place. Though they are separate and distinct pieces of the puzzle, together these creativity secrets combine to make a powerful picture of you creating as fully, and as happily as you're capable of.


  • Be More Creative - The 5 Biggest Mistakes You're Making In Trying To Be More Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Each of us are unique in how we create, but there are common elements we can all use to help us be more creative. The problem is, most of the time we don't make use of them, or even worse we do the complete opposite! Here are 5 of the biggest creative killing mistakes made, and how you can turn them around:


  • 5 Ways To Help Your Creative Writing Become More Like A Fun Fling Than An Unhappy Marriage
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Does your relationship with your creative writing feel about as much fun as a miserable resentful marriage? Are you looking for a way to restore the kind of happiness associated with a young carefree fling? Then carry on reading for 5 top tips you can start using today...


  • Creative Writing Exercises - The Short Cut To Putting The Joy Back In Your Creative Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Are you looking for a way to end the painful struggle that writing creatively has become, and rediscover the enjoyment that it used to bring? Then creative writing exercises could be just what you need. Read on to find out how, and why...


  • How To Enjoy Your Creativity Again When Fun Has Turned To Frustration
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Can you remember the last time you really ENJOYED creating? When creating was not a struggle or a chore but a pleasurable and stimulating experience? If you find you're counting in months rather than minutes, here's an article you can use today to help you rediscover the fun in YOUR creativity.


  • How To Be More Creative - What If You Were As Creative As You Could Be, Right Now?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How creative are you right now, compared with how creative you COULD be? There's a way to close this gap that you can begin using right away. All you have to do is use a little imagination... Read on to find out more...


  • Creativity Myths Exploded - Should I Only Create In One Medium?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you believe that you should only try to create in one medium, and not even think about trying other creative forms? Read on to find out why this creativity myth is so destructive, and why it simply isn't true.


  • How To Beat Procrastination - Don't Read This If You Want To Procrastinate For The Rest Of Your Life
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Are you ready to learn the crucial first step in how to beat procrastination? The step that can have a more profound impact on your creativity than anything in years? Then read on...


  • Creative Ideas Are Pouring Down Around You Like Rain - So Why Are You Still Bone Dry?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you find you're always lacking good creative ideas to develop? Do you feel that if only you were able to have more great ideas, your creativity would shift into overdrive and struggling to create like you do now would become a distant memory? Then carry on reading for a simple and powerful technique to generate all the creative ideas you'll ever need. And you can start using it right away.


  • Be More Creative - Why The Small Steps Are The Biggest When It Comes To Increasing Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] True creative progress doesn't appear as a series of dramatic events with loud fanfares, bright lights and dancing girls. It comes in the small consistent steps you make each day. Carry on reading to learn just how very creative you already are and how you can become even more creative in the coming days, weeks and months...


  • Creative Writing Confidence - 5 Steps To Regaining Your Confidence As A Creative Writer
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Has your confidence in writing been lacking lately? Are you looking for ways to regain your writing confidence and return to writing freely and easily? Then here's an effective 5 step plan you can start using right away...


  • Creative Writing Exercises - Keep Your Writing Fun, Fresh & Flowing With Creative Writing Exercises
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] However much you've written, and however experienced you are as a writer, there are times when your writing feels tired, predictable and in need of something new. By regularly experimenting with creative writing exercises you can keep your writing fun, fresh and flowing. Read on to find out just how.


  • How To Be More Creative - Ask The Number 1 Creativity Expert In The World - You!
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you find yourself hunting far and wide for the elusive secrets that'll help you be more creative, more often? Those nuggets of wisdom that will give you the breakthrough and end your constant struggle to create consistently? Believe it or not, you already KNOW all the creativity secrets you'll ever need, they're all inside you, waiting to be discovered. And here are 10 powerful questions you can ask to reveal them today.


  • Creative Writing Tips - How To Weave The Magic Spell To Write Better, Deeper, And More Than Ever
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] How often do you write and it flows so freely it almost feels as if you're under some kind of magic spell? Now and again? Once in while? Never?? By putting into place a few key habits, you can experience this kind of abundant writing more easily and more often. Read on to find out how you can get started today:


  • Motivation Secrets - 2 Simple Steps To Staying Highly Motivated And Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] However creative you have the potential to be, actually creating to that level you're capable of regularly is easier said than done. Plus, the longer it's been since you last created regularly, the harder it seems to get back into any kind of routine and flow. Sometimes it feels like you may never create ANYTHING again, let alone creating the art that you're truly capable of.


  • How To Beat Procrastination - Do You Even Realise How Much You're Procrastinating?
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Procrastination is a major creativity killer. And it's particularly dangerous because much of the time it does the damage while you don't even realise you're procrastinating. To learn how much you really do procrastinate, and the crucial first steps to beating it, carry on reading:


  • Creative Writing Tips - 5 Wonderful Ways To Kick Start Your Creative Writing Today
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] However prolific a writer we are, however many books we've published, however many thousands of words we've written, we all need techniques and systems in place to be able to continue to write to the best of our potential abilities. If your approach to writing has no structure or routine, then it's unlikely you'll ever reach a fraction of your creative writing potential. Here to inspire you and get you started then are 5 top creative writing tips: 1.


  • Creative Writing Myths - Writing Must Be A Struggle For Me To Call Myself A REAL Writer
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Are you aware of the limiting beliefs you hold about your creative writing that mean you'll always struggle to write? Read on to discover one of the biggest and most common myths about creative writing, and how you can overcome its negative effects in YOUR writing life.


  • Creative Writing Ideas - How To Have An Unstoppable Flow Of Creative Writing Ideas
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Struggling to have any good ideas for your creative writing? Read on to discover the two key elements to having an unstoppable flow of creative writing ideas, and how you can start putting them into place today.


  • Creative Writing Exercises - If I'm A Creative Writer, Shouldn't I Already Know How To Write?
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Are you a writer caught between the rock of not feeling you can call yourself a real writer because you're not experienced or accomplished enough, and the hard place of thinking if you ARE a real writer you "should" already know everything there is about how to write? Then read on to find how to escape this frustrating and creativity sapping state.


  • How To Be Creative - 5 Top Tips To Help You Be More Creative Than You Thought Possible
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] We can all be more creative than we are right now. Yes, that means you too! Here are 5 top tips for you to follow, to help you be more creative than you thought was possible.


  • How to Beat Procrastination - 5 Danger Signs That You're Procrastinating More Than You Realise
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] One of the most dangerous things about procrastination habits is that they creep up on you slowly and before you know it, for every hour you think you're creating, for 45 minutes of it or more you're actually procrastinating. Read on to find out 5 top danger signs to help you identify those devious habits and start overcoming them today...


  • How To Be Creative - 5 Essential Elements For A Life Of Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Though we're all individuals, there are essential elements that each of us who create need in place to be as creative as we're capable of. Do you know what these elements are? Read on to find out how many you have in place in your creative life...


  • How To Beat Procrastination - The Top 10 Favourite Procrastination Techniques Of Creative Artists
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Procrastination is one of the biggest reasons we don't create as much as we could do. Most of the time though, our habits of procrastination don't announce themselves with a loud fanfare, they're the little things that go unnoticed, but together add up to huge amounts of wasted time. Here are 10 of the most common. Which are YOUR favourites?


  • Creativity & Perfectionism - Is Your Creativity A Slave To The Toxic Clutches Of Perfectionism?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] When it comes to creating, would you say you have perfectionist tendencies? They could be doing far more damage than you realise. Read on to discover how two contrasting attitudes towards perfectionism can have vastly different effects on your creativity...


  • Creativity Secrets - What They Say And How To Hear Them
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] What would you say if I suggested that you already knew all the creativity secrets you'll ever need to help you be as creative as you can be? Read on to find why this is far more true than you might at first think...


  • Creative Writing - Why You Have A Cupboard Full Of Unfinished Creative Writing Projects
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] How many different creative writing projects have you started in the last 6 months? And how many of those have you actually finished? Starting a new project, then discarding it when the next shiny new idea comes along is a common trap for writers. Here's how to deal with it, so you don't feel like you're staggering around with an ever expanding cupboard of unfinished writing projects strapped to your back the whole time...


  • Be More Creative - The 5 Biggest Mistakes You're Making That Choke Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Most of us want to be more creative and are looking for the magic solution that'll make it happen. But what brings us most progress is looking at what we're doing now that's limiting our creativity and making the changes necessary to help us be more creative. Here are 5 of the most common ways we limit our creativity. Which of these mistakes are YOU making?


  • Be More Creative - How To See The Forest, Enjoy The Donuts & Realise How Creative You Already Are
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] "If only I was more creative..." is a common complaint heard from creative artists in all kinds of different fields of creativity. How often does this thought run through your own mind? The problem is, when you focus on what you feel is lacking, that's all you see. Continue reading to discover how, with a little shift of focus, you'll realise how creative you already ARE.


  • Creative Writing - How To Cope When You're Overwhelmed With More Ideas Than You Can Handle
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] A lack of ideas is often discussed as a major issue for writers. But equally as difficult - and far less talked about - is what to do when you're overwhelmed with TOO MANY ideas and can't get focused on just one writing project. Here's a great technique for managing all those creative ideas, that you can start using today:


  • Creative Writing Prompts - Kick Start Your Creative Writing Today With Creative Writing Prompts
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] As writers, we often feel that because we don't have the tools of other artists such as the canvases, brushes and paints of painters or the instruments, notes and chords of musicians, that we have to virtually reinvent language each time we write, just to be able to claim we're being original. Creative writing prompts are a great tool to use to overcome this myth, and to help you write more freely and creatively starting from today.


  • Creative Writing Exercise - How To Use Writing Exercises And Maintain Your Originality As A Writer
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] One of the fears writers have in using creative writing exercises is that it will somehow compromise their integrity and mean they're not writing all their own original work. This is simply a myth. Read on to find out how you can greatly enhance your writing using exercises, whilst maintaining your originality and integrity as a writer.


  • Creative Writing Exercises - Get Your Creative Writing In Fabulous Shape Using Writing Exercises
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Are you tired of feeling in a rut with your writing and coming up with the same words and phrases time and time again? Then read on for how to take your writing from factory production line mundaneness to tip top creative shape using creative writing exercises.


  • Creative Resistance - How To Stay Creative When It Feels The World's Conspiring Against You
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] There are times when we all feel that however much we may want to create, there are external circumstances that seem to be conspiring against us. If we begin to feel helpless against them, that's when our creativity suffers. But, as you'll find as you continue reading this article, whatever happens externally, you ALWAYS have the choice to remain creative...


  • Creative Writing Journal - 3 Ways You Enhance Your Creative Writing When You Use A Writing Journal
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Do you use a creative writing journal to capture your writing ideas? If not, you're missing out on one of the most powerful ways you can enhance your creative writing abilities. Read on to find 3 of the top reasons a writing journal helps you write more consistently and rewardingly:


  • How To Beat Procrastination - You'll Always Be A Slave To Procrastination Unless You Take This Step
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Procrastination is more destructive to your creativity and your ability to create what's most important to you than virtually anything else. It's secret power comes from the fact that most of the time you don't realise you're even procrastinating. In this article, discover the first step you MUST take, if you want to avoid being a slave to procrastination habits for the rest of your life.


  • Creative Writing Exercises - How To Tone Your Creative Writing Muscles With A Daily Workout
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] However much natural talent you have, and however much you've written in the past, any of us can become more creative with practice. Creative writing exercises are a great way of getting your creative muscles in prime shape, so you can produce your best writing more often. Read on to find out how - and why - this technique is so effective...


  • Creative Writing Prompts - The Secret To Exploding Your Creative Writing Potential
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] If you're feeling in a rut with your writing, creative writing prompts are a great tool to use for some fresh inspiration and energy. Read on to find out how quickly and easily they can help you explode YOUR creative writing...


  • Creative Writing Prompts - Give Your Writing The Green Light For GO Using Creative Writing Prompts
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Does it feel sometimes like your writing is flowing about as freely as a gridlock city street at rush hour? Or maybe you're writing plenty but find it's the same old words and sentences and structures you always seem to use? Here's how creative writing prompts can give your writing a fresh burst of life, and the green light for go!


  • Creative Writing Secrets - A 3 Step Plan To Boost Your Confidence & Self Belief As A Creative Writer
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Do you feel your lack of self belief and confidence as a writer limits what and how much you write? Then this is for you. Read on for an effective 3 step plan to boost your creative writing confidence. Any you can get started using it right away...


  • Creative Writing Secrets - 5 Top Reasons Why You Can't Afford NOT To Write Each And Every Day
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] One of the most powerful secrets to writing freely and reaching your full potential as a writer is simply to write each and every day, even if it's just for 15 minutes. To find out why this is a creative writing secret you can't afford NOT to discover for yourself, here are 5 of the top reasons:


  • Creative Writing Secrets - Have More Ideas Than You Thought Possible For Your Creative Writing
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Feeling stuck for good ideas is one of the biggest blocks there is for your creative writing. How can you possibly write freely and consistently if you feel you never have enough decent ideas to develop? The answer is you can't - ideas are the fundamental building blocks on which all creativity is built. If this sounds a painfully familiar issue for you, read on to discover a technique you can use to give you a steady flow of all the creative writing ideas you'll ever need.


  • Creative Writing Secrets - 7 Ways You Limit Your Creative Writing Potential Without Even Knowing It
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] There's far more creative writing potential within you than you realise. The problem is, you're choking this potential in any number of ways, many of them you're not even aware you're doing. Read on for 7 of the most common, and what to do differently to help you blossom into the creative writer you know you can be...


  • How To Beat Procrastination - The First Step To Overcoming Procrastination You Can't Afford To Miss
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] How often do you find yourself "just" checking your email, or "just" reorganising your materials before you start creating? An hour later and you're still doing it. Procrastination does most damage in times just like this when we don't realise we're even procrastinating. Here's the first step to overcoming procrastination that you simply can't afford to overlook...


  • How To Beat Procrastination - If You Don't Know Your Enemy You'll Always Procrastinate
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] One of the most destructive blocks in the way of you creating is procrastination. Even more dangerous is the fact that most of the time you don't even realize how much it's sucking your creative energy, ideas and flow. Here's how to start recognizing procrastination for the shameless thief it is, and the first steps to putting an end to it's powerful grip on your creativity for good...


  • Goal Setting For Creatives - 5 Top Benefits Of Setting Goals In Your Creative Life
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Before you run off in terror at the mention of the phrase "goal setting", take a look at this article. You'll find 5 of the top benefits of setting a few simple goals in your creative life, benefits I'm sure you'd enjoy seeing appear in the coming days as you become more creative, and have more fun being creative along the way...


  • Goal Setting For Creatives - Why Goals Aren't The Creativity Killer You Think They Are
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] When we think of goal setting as creative people, our instinct is usually to run away with our hands over our ears going "LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU..." But goal setting isn't as scary or difficult as you think. And most importantly, rather than restrict your creativity, goals actually allow you to be MORE creative and more productive. Read on to find out how...


  • Creative Goals - Why You Don't Set Creative Goals, And The Creativity Boost You're Missing Out On
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Words like "goals" and "ambition" strike fear into the heart of a creative artist and make us conjure up images of being restricted and penned in. But the fears of goal setting are largely unfounded. The direction and focus goals provide can help you reach levels of creativity you haven't experienced in years. Read on to find out how:


  • Creative Writing - 5 Top Ways To Rejuvenate Your Creative Writing Starting Today
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Do you ever feel so stuck in your creative writing, you wonder not where the next poem or story will come from but where the next sentence, or even the next WORD will come from? Here to help you are 5 top tips you can start putting into action today to give your creative writing a fresh lease of life.


  • Creative Writing Prompts - The Secret To Transforming Your Creative Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Creative writing prompts are a powerful tool to help you write to your full creative potential more often. One of the added benefits is that more you use writing prompts, the less you need to use them, they actually make themselves redundant. Carry on reading to find out why they're so effective and how you can start using them to transform your creative writing today...


  • Creative Writing Prompts - How To Dive In To The Ocean Of Creative Writing Talent Within You
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Every one of us has undiscovered creative writing ability within us, the size of a vast ocean. The problem is, most of the time we barely even dare to get more than the tips of our toes wet! Here's how creative writing prompts can help you to stop paddling timidly near the shore and instead dive in and discover that ocean of writing potential within you...


  • Creative Ideas - How To Come Up With An Endless Supply Of Creative Ideas
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Any creative artist - however talented they are - is nothing without ideas to develop. Ideas are the starting point for everything that's created. No ideas means no creativity. The approach most of us take to gathering ideas is one that leaves us frustrated, uninspired and ultimately like we've lost all ability to create anything worthwhile. To find out why, and to discover a new way of gathering all the ideas you'll ever need, continue reading...


  • Be More Creative - How To Give Your Creativity Permission To Be Amazing
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] All of us are more creative than we realise. The problem is, we don't give ourselves PERMISSION to be creative and to explore the full extent of our creative abilities. Read on to find out how this happens, and 3 great techniques you can put into use today to give YOUR creativity permission to come out and be amazing.


  • Increase Your Creativity - Are Your Creative Beliefs A Concrete Straitjacket On Your Creativity?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] There are common elements we all need to have present to lead as rewarding and enjoyable a creative life as possible. One of these vital Keys To Creativity is to have powerful and positive beliefs about yourself and your creative abilities. If you don't, it's like trying to fly to the moon on a rocket ship by taking off indoors. That ceiling's going to be a problem! Here's a powerful exercise to identify and enhance those less than positive beliefs that have been holding your creativity back for so long.


  • Increase Your Creativity - Accept You're MULTI-Creative And Set Your True Creative Talents Free
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] There are certain key elements that all of us can bring to our creative lives to make them as enjoyable and rewarding as possible. One of these is accepting that you're multi-creative and not limiting yourself with narrow labels like "just" a scriptwriter, landscape painter or jazz musician. Find out how in this article, and the first step you can take today towards a new MULTI-creative you!


  • Increase Your Creativity - How To Rediscover The Enjoyment Of Creating You Didn't Realise You'd Lost
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Though we each create in our unique way, there are a number of essential elements we must have in place to get the most from our creative lives. Enjoying your creativity is something that often gets lost after the early optimism of a new creative project. And if you're not enjoying creating, then why create? So here's a way to enjoy your creativity more deeply, and more often, that you can start using today...


  • Increase Your Creativity - How The Support Of Others Can Radically Increase Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Even though we're each unique in who we are and what we create, there are common elements that are essential for a rewarding and enjoyable creative life. One of these Keys To Creativity is having the support of other like minded creative people who understand and share in the struggles and successes you go through. Read on for 5 of the most valuable benefits to be gained from the support of others, and why there's never been a better time to find the kind of creative support that's right for you...


  • Increase Your Creativity - How Simply Acknowledging Your Progress Can Powerfully Boost Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Each of use are unique in our creativity but there are essential elements that all of us need in place to be as creative as we know we can be. One of these Keys To Creativity is learning to acknowledge how much you're progressing in your creativity, especially during times when you're feeling blocked and stuck. Find out how using the following technique:


  • Increase Your Creativity - How To Capture More Ideas And Supercharge Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Though we're each unique as creative people, there are key elements essential for all of us to lead a rewarding and productive creative life. One of these Keys To Creativity is learning to capture your ideas. Here's how this technique can supercharge your creativity when you start putting it into action today:


  • Increase Your Creativity - Create A Little Each Day To Drastically Increase Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Each of us who create are unique, but there are certain common elements that are crucial to enjoy a rewarding and consistently creative life. One of these Keys To Creativity is creating a little each day. Here's how it can transform your creativity when you start putting it into action today:


  • Overcoming Perfectionism - Learn To Create The Wham Bam Way!
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] The negative effects of perfectionism run deep for us as creative people. The more we get sucked into to trying to create perfect projects in a perfect way, the less we actually create. Each new creative project we undertake becomes about as easy as running into an ocean of treacle. With the tide coming in! So here's a new technique you can start using right away to put an end to the havoc perfectionism wreaks on YOUR creativity...


  • Be More Creative - 7 Keys To Creativity That'll Help You Be More Creative Than You Thought Possible
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Even though we are all unique in who we are and how we create, there are common elements that we need in place to have a creative life that's fulfilling, abundant and enjoyable. Here are the 7 Keys To Creativity that'll help you move towards this. Which will you choose to help you be more creative than you thought possible, starting from today?


  • How To Be A Happy Creative Artist
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Every one of us creates in our own individual style, but there are common elements we all need to have in place to be able to lead a happy and creative life. Here then are 7 key elements to being the happy and creative artist you know you can be. Which will you put into use today?


  • Creative Writing Exercises - Invite Your Creativity Out To Play With Creative Writing Exercises!
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] When you're feeling stuck and blocked as a writer, it's like being a 7 year old kid told he can't go out to play because it's raining, and you only have one toy to play with for days on end. Not much fun, and very frustrating! In this article you'll discover how creative writing exercises are the invitation your creativity needs to banish those writer's block blues and come out and play in the sunshine again...


  • How To Beat Procrastination - Miss This Step And You'll Always Be A Slave To Procrastination
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Procrastination is one of the biggest obstacles to a freely creative life there is. What makes it so powerful is that you're caught up in trivial activities and procrastinating before you've even realised what's happening. Read on to find out how this happens, and the vital first step you MUST take to avoid being a slave to procrastination for the rest of your days...


  • Creative Writing Exercises - Unleash Your Writing Abilities With Creative Writing Exercises
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] When you feel your writing is becoming a real struggle or you're feeling blocked and can't seem to come up with any good ideas, it's easy to start panicking. But you don't need to! Having a standby of creative writing exercises can be just what you need to keep your writing fresh, interesting and continually evolving. Read on to find how writing exercises help, and why they're so effective...


  • Lacking Creative Ideas? How To Provide A Safe Harbour For Endless Creative Ideas
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Is a lack of ideas one of the reasons you feel you're not more creative? But how welcoming are you to new ideas as they appear? Read on to find why the secret to having more ideas than you'll ever need begins with how you welcome them in...


  • Be More Creative - Is Your Creative Environment Helping Or Hindering Your Creativity?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] s the environment you create in helping you be more creative? Or is it holding your creativity back? Where we create and what's around us has a major impact on our creativity. Read on to find the 3 key elements of a healthy creative environment and how you can start putting them into place in your creative life today...


  • Creative Writing Prompts - Unlock The Creative Writing Kingdom Within You Using Writing Prompts
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Are you looking for a way to unblock your writing and give it new life, rather than writing the same old words, sentences and paragraphs? Creative writing prompts are the keys to kingdom of wonderful creative writing within you. In this article you'll find out why, and how you can unlock that kingdom's gates today...


  • Creative Writing Exercises - How To Unlock Your Writing Talent With Creative Writing Exercises
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] However wonderful a writer you have the POTENTIAL to be, unless you start exploring and experimenting with your writing, you might only discover a tiny fraction of what you're capable of. Creative writing exercises enable you to unlock that creative writing talent you already have. Read on to find out how to use them to take YOUR writing to new levels...


  • How To Beat Procrastination - Don't Get Caught In The "Why?" Trap Or You'll Always Procrastinate
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Once you've taken the brave step of admitting the extent of your procrastination habits, the next logical step is to try to work out why you procrastinate. Then you'll be able to beat procrastination for good, right? Wrong! Focusing on WHY only ends in more procrastination. To find out why this happens and an alternative approach to beating procrastination that DOES work, continue reading this article...


  • Creativity Myths Exploded - Why A Regular Creative Routine Won't Choke Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] One of the biggest myths surrounding creativity is that having regular creativity habits and systems in place will stifle your creativity and imagination and not allow it to flow freely in every direction it wants to go. In fact the exact opposite is true. Read on to find out why, and discover how a little habit here and there can be the most freeing step you can possibly take for your creativity and creative happiness...


  • No Time To Create? But Is Time The REAL Reason You're Not More Creative?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Much of the time we blame the fact we're not more creative on a lack of time. But often, time is not the issue at all. Read on to find how you can reveal the REAL reasons you're not more creative, and how you can take the first positive step towards being more creative today:


  • Creative Ideas - How To Stop Feeling Like You're Always Out Of Creative Ideas And Running On Empty
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Creative ideas are the fuel that drives our creative projects and lives. A lack of ideas causes anxiety, panic and even a complete breakdown in creating. Read on to find out how to have a constant supply of creative ideas, and not feel like you're always out of ideas and running on empty...


  • How To Beat Procrastination - Are You Missing This Vital Step To Overcoming Procrastination?
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Unless you admit you procrastinate, it's always going to dramatically limit your creativity, and stop you enjoy a freely creative life. Here's how to take that first step today, and why it's so powerful...


  • The Creativity Habit - Learn The Secret To A Life Of Abundant & Enjoyable Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you struggle to create consistently and freely? Have you forgotten how to even ENJOY your creativity, so now it seems more like a form of torture? Read on to discover how to develop a creativity habit that will transform your creativity, starting from today...


  • Creative Writing Prompts - 5 Ways To Give Your Creative Writing A New Lease Of Life
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Is your writing lacking sparkle and energy? Are you looking for a way to freshen up your writing and give it new direction and energy? Creative writing prompts are an excellent way to do this. Here are 5 of the top ways using prompts can give your creative writing new life...


  • The Creativity Habit - What It Is And How To Get It In 30 Days Or Less
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you create regularly and consistently, creativity ideas and energy flowing through you each time you go to create? Hmm, thought not. Here's a technique that you can use as the basis for a lifetime of consistent abundant creating. And you can get started today...


  • How To Beat Procrastination - You Can Take This Important First Step TODAY
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Procrastination is very devious, and manages to convince you that the task you're doing is not a procrastination habit but instead something that is urgent and essential and simply can't wait. Here's how to recognise its manipulative techniques and take that important first step to beating procrastination and freeing your creativity today...


  • Increase Creativity Dramatically - The Secret Formula To Abundant Creativity That No-One Talks About
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Increasing your creativity comes down to a simple mathematical formula. Now before you run away or nod off to sleep, read this article and you'll discover the two overlooked vital elements you can focus on to take your creativity to new levels.


  • Creative Communities - 7 Ways A Creative Community Can Sky-Rocket Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Ever feel like you're creating in a vacuum? Because no-one ever shares in what you create, do you sometimes wonder if you've even created it all?! Being a part of a supportive creative community might be exactly what you need. Here a 7 top reasons why:


  • The Art Of Procrastination - How To Waste Time And Get Absolutely Nothing Done
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Feel you might have been creating a little more than usual lately? Then quick, follow these 5 fabulous tips to master the art of procrastination and ensure you never come close to creating what's important to you, or getting anything worthwhile done!


  • How To Be More Creative - When's The Best Time Of Day To Create?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Is there an optimum time of day we can create that'll make it easier and help us be more naturally productive? Well, yes, there is, and no it's not exactly the same time for each of us. To find out how to tune in to YOUR best time of day to create, follow this simple technique:


  • How To Beat Procrastination - Why Analysis Only Leads To Creative Paralysis
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Once you've taken the brave step of admitting that procrastination is an issue that seriously stunts your creativity, the next logical step appears to be to find out why you procrastinate. This is a fatal error though, and ends up with you procrastinating even more! To find out why, and to discover the alternative approach to beating procrastination that DOES work, carry on reading this article...


  • How To Beat Procrastination - Why Procrastination Is More Addictive Than Chocolate
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Have you ever started eating a delicious bar of chocolate vowing to have "just one chunk", then before you've realised it you're left with a few crumbs in an empty wrapper, and feelings of regret mixed with guilt? Procrastination is just like that. Except more addictive. And you feel even worse after! Read on to find out why, and the first steps you can take to beat procrastination today...


  • How To Beat Procrastination - Why "Why?" Is Not The Answer To Overcoming Procrastination
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Once we admit that procrastination is something that seriously limits our ability to create freely, easily and to the heights and depths of our creative potential, the next obvious seems to be to find out WHY. Once you have the answer to that, you'll never procrastinate again, right? Well, no. Read on to find out why asking "Why?" actually means you'll procrastinate MORE, and discover the alternative approach to beating procrastination that works...


  • How To Beat Procrastination - The Crucial First Step You Can Take Before You Sleep Tonight
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] One of the most powerful and destructive creativity killers is procrastination. How often do you find yourself involved in minor tasks that you've convinced yourself are urgent and can't wait, rather than just getting down to creating what you really want to create? Read on to find the first step to beating procrastination you can take before you sleep tonight.


  • How To Beat Procrastination - Recognising The Little "Justs" That Waste Years Of Your Life
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] At the time, "just" checking your email, making a snack, or reorganising your materials or work area seem to take up only tiny amounts of the time you could be creating. But add them up and the picture gets a lot more scary. How much time do you really lose through procrastination habits? Here's the crucial first step you need to start overcoming procrastination today:


  • Creative Confidence - How To Avoid Drowning Before You Remember How To Swim
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How high is your confidence in creating right now? Often when our confidence is low, we attempt an ambitious or complex project, quickly get stuck and our already fragile confidence takes a further hefty blow. Here's an alternative approach to building your confidence and creating freely again:


  • Creative Inspiration - How Are You Leaving Your Unique Creative Fingerprints On The World?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] You don't have to be a best selling author or an internationally renowned artist to positively influence the lives of others with your creativity. Read on to find how you too can leave unique and inspiring creative fingerprints on the world around you.


  • How to Beat Procrastination - How Many Procrastinators Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb?
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] How many procrastinators does it take to change a light bulb? Read on to find out, as well as discovering how the answer gives you the chance to take that first crucial step to overcoming the procrastination habits that have stunted your creativity for so long...


  • Creating Writing Prompts & Exercises - Your Recipe For Mouth Watering Creative Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] If you've found recently your creative writing has been more like chewing on stale bread than dining on delicious cuisine, maybe it's time for a new approach. Creating writing prompts and exercises provide the recipes to transform your writing into feasts fit for kings. Read on to find out how and why they could be just what your writing needs...


  • Creative Writing Prompts & Exercises - Shortcut To Happiness For Your Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Are you looking for a fresh way to write, a way to juice up your writing a little because it's become a little too predictable and repetitive lately? Creative writing prompts and exercises are fantastic tools to use. Read on to find why the shortcut to happiness for your creative writing is just a few prompts and exercises away...


  • Beat Perfectionism! Top Techniques To Keep Your Creativity Alive
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How many times have you started a creative project with great momentum and enthusiasm, only for it to virtually disappear as thoughts of "it's got to be perfect!" overwhelm you? Perfectionism affects all of us who create. Here are two effective techniques you can start using today, to prevent and overcome this common creativity killer.


  • Why Using Creative Writing Prompts & Creative Writing Exercises Doesn't Make You A Cheat Or A Fraud!
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Are you struggling to come up with new ideas and direction for your creative writing? But you're not prepared to use any creative writing prompts or exercises to give you the boost you desperately need because you think that would be cheating? Read on to find why using writing prompts and exercises DOESN'T make you a cheat or a fraud, and could give you just the nudge you need to take your writing to new heights.


  • Creativity Is A Choice - The Crucial Difference Between "I Don't Create" And "I Can't Create"
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Though it may not feel like it sometimes, you have the choice in how creative you are. By saying, and believing, "I'm not creative", that negative belief only becomes stronger. This article shows you the steps how to turn that around and regain your power to choose to be creative.


  • How To Beat Procrastination - Overlook This Step And You'll Procrastinate For The Rest Of Your Life
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Procrastination is probably THE biggest creativity killer, and just the word "procrastination" can strike fear into the heart of even the most confident artist. It is possible to overcome procrastination, but only if you take this crucial first step. Ignore it and you're destined to be a slave to procrastination for the rest of your days...


  • Creative Writing Prompts, Creative Writing Exercises And How To Electrify Your Writing!
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Have you found lately your creative writing could use a little inspiration, a fresh injection of something to make it more interesting and enjoyable? Here's how to use creative writing prompts and exercises to electrify your writing and give it the boost it needs...


  • How to Beat Procrastination - The Powerful First Step You Can Take Today
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Procrastination stops us creating more than virtually anything else. Beating procrastination can often seem impossible, and you may already have given up being able to create freely and easily without trying 101 different techniques to avoid it. There IS a way to beat procrastination. But if you skip the powerful first step, you'll always procrastinate, and you'll never come to close to reaching your creative potential. Read on to find out what that crucial first step is, and how you can take it today:


  • How To Beat Procrastination - A New Approach That Works
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] How often are you able to simply go and create without distraction, without "just" checking your email one more time, "just" rearranging your materials so they're perfect or watching "just" one more episode of your favourite sitcom? Occasionally? Rarely? Never? These kind of procrastination habits severely limit what you're able to create. But there is hope. There's an approach to overcoming procrastination that works that you can start using today. Read on to find out more...


  • Creative Writing Prompts - How To Give Your Creative Writing The Time Of Its Life!
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] You have far more potential for great creative writing than you realise. It's just it doesn't get invited to come out and play very often. Read on to find out how creative writing prompts can help your writing have the time of its life!


  • Creative Writing Prompts - How To Use Prompts To Help Your Creative Writing Flourish
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Has your writing felt a bit lacking in ideas and inspiration lately? Have you been looking for a way to give it a boost and a fresh injection of something to see it flourish one more? Creative writing prompts are a fantastic way of doing this. To find out how - and why - they can bring new levels of richness and fulfillment to YOUR creative writing, carry on reading...


  • Be More Creative - How To Make Peace With Your Inner Critic
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] The inner critic - that voice in your head that can cut through your confidence and diminish your creative efforts in an instant - is one of the biggest issues we struggle with as creative people. But attempting to lock horns and do battle only ever leads to one outcome: more pain and suffering for you, and of course less creating. So here's a different approach, a way to understand and make peace with your inner critic and see your creativity flourish:


  • Creative Writing - 5 Reasons Why You're Not Reaching Your Full Potential With Creative Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] How happy are you with your creative writing right now? Do you feel you're enjoying your writing and are close to your writing potential? There are a number of reasons why you might not be. Read on for 5 of the most common and how you can turn them around to write more freely, deeply and enjoyably, starting today:


  • How To Beat Procrastination - Try This Effective New Approach To Overcome Procrastination
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] The logical approach to beating procrastination is to first analyse why you might be procrastinating. But this doesn't work. Why? Because you end up with a lap full of perfectly valid and justifiable reasons why you don't create more. Which, rather than help you procrastinate less, actually leads you to think "Wow, with all the reasons, it's NO WONDER I don't create more!" Result? You procrastinate more than ever before! So here instead is an alternative approach to beating procrastination that works:


  • How To Be More Creative - Surely There's An Easier Way?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] When you're struggling time and time again with the same creativity issues, do you ever stop to think "There must be a better way!" Often, there is. You've just got so stuck in a routine you can't see any alternatives. Read on to find how you can apply a technique to overcome this and help you be more creative in your life...


  • How To Beat Procrastination - Are You Ignoring This Crucial First Step?
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Are you tired of the constant battle with procrastination? Wouldn't you like to be able to just sit down and get lost in something creative, without finding 101 ways to avoid it? Maybe you're missing the crucial first step in how to beat procrastination? Ignore this and you'll always procrastinate, it will always have a stranglehold on you. Read on to find out what this vital step is, and how to take it...


  • Creative Writing - 5 Tips To Increase Your Self Confidence In Writing Creatively
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Confidence in writing is the difference between writing freely and abundantly and sitting staring at a blank screen wondering if you'll ever write again. Read on for 5 top tips that'll help you boost your confidence in your creative writing starting today:


  • How to Beat Procrastination - Are You Making This Vital Mistake Trying To Overcome Procrastination?
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] You don't need me to tell you that procrastination is one of the biggest creativity killers there is. But did you realise that most of us never get close to overcoming procrastination because we make one vital mistake in our approach? Read on to find what it is, and to find an alternative approach that actually works...


  • Creative Communities - There For You When Your Friends And Family Aren't
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] In an ideal world our close friends and family would be completely supportive of our creativity. In reality though this is rarely the case. At best our creative work is usually greeted by indifference, at worst its mocked and dismissed as a "silly hobby". But these days, there are creative communities that can give us all the support we need to as creative as we know we can be. Read on to find out exactly how a creative community can help YOU:


  • Creative Communities - How To Find A Creative Community That's Right For You
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Being part of a creative community can have hugely positive benefits for your creativity in ways you may have not experienced before, especially if you mostly create all alone. Read on for some of those invaluable benefits you could be receiving and how you can find a creative community that offers the right environment for you...


  • Creative Vision - Have You Been Dreaming With The Lid On?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you have a strong vision for your creative life? Do you know exactly where you're heading and what you want to achieve? Wait! Before you run and hide behind the sofa like most of us creative types would, there are many good reasons why you haven't been dreaming big. Carry on reading to find 5 of the most common, and how you can start to overcome them and reach the creative dreams you deserve:


  • Increase Creative Flow - How To Avoid Gridlock And Give Your Creativity The Green Light
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How often do you want to create but find it flows about as easily as trying to drive through a traffic pile up at rush hour in an 18 wheel truck? Here are 5 great ways to avoid the gridlock and keep your creativity purring along smoothly on the open road...


  • Increase Creativity - Watch Your Language! How The Words You Say Determine How Creative You Are
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Negative language can seriously limit how much you create as well as how much you enjoy creating. I'm sure you're aware of the impact negative comments from other people and from your own inner critic can have. But there's another kind of negative language that over time can be just as destructive if it goes unchecked. Read on to find out what it is, and how you can start to eliminate it today...


  • How To Beat Procrastination - Ignore This Crucial First Step And You'll Always Procrastinate
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Procrastination habits are deadly to those of us who create. They can suck our time, energy and creativity before we've even realised and leave us frustrated, confused and wondering why we even bother. You can beat procrastination though if you want to. But, avoid this vital first step and you'll forever be a slave to procrastination. Read on to find out what it is and how you can take it to begin to overcome procrastination today:


  • Increase Creativity Today - Focus On What's Working In Your Creative Life
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Sometimes we're so frantically looking for new ways to be creative - some quick instant fix that'll solve everything overnight - that we overlook all the techniques we're already using very effectively. By focusing on what's already working, you can quickly use this knowledge to be more creative. Read on to find out why this works so well, and 3 great ways to get you started right away:


  • Creative Authenticity - Finding The True Creative You
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Some of us can go for years, even decades creating work that we never quite connect with, and never feels quite our own. How authentic an expression of the real you is your creative work? The benefits of finding and honouring the true creative you are many. Read on to find some of the most compelling - and 5 ways to you can begin to find that authentic creative you:


  • You CAN Be Creative Again - 5 Steps To Rediscover The Creativity You Thought You'd Lost Forever
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Did you wake up one day and wonder where all your creativity went? You remember how creative you used to be but gradually it's slipped from your fingers and you've barely realised, until now. Well, there is hope. However you feel right now, your creativity has not disappeared forever. Carry on reading for the 5 steps to rediscovering the creativity within you that you thought you were scared you'd lost for good:


  • Creative Writing Prompts - Hot Wire Your Creative Writing With New Writing Prompts
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Would you like to be able to write more, to unlock the creative writing potential that's laying dormant within you? Why have a beautiful sports car on your front drive if you never even sit in it, let alone take it out on the open road? Your creative writing potential is just like that sports car when you don't write. Here's you can hot wire it today using creative writing prompts...


  • Creativity Myths - My Creativity Is Not A Bottomless Well, It Could Run Out Any Day Now
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you live in fear that your creativity could run out at any time - maybe today even? Is everything you create restricted by this belief, and you constantly feel like you're holding back? Read on to find how this common creativity myth can effect you in ways you don't even realise, and the best way to start to turn it around and see your creativity as the unlimited well source it actually is...


  • Where Do You Create? Are Your Creative Surroundings Seriously Stunting Your Creativity?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] The creative environment you work in can have a huge influence on how much you create and how easily you find it to create. How well are your surroundings supporting and nurturing you creativity? Read on to find the 5 key areas that can make the difference between creating abundantly and not even creating at all.


  • Writer's Block - An Effective New Approach To Help You Beat Writer's Block
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Writer's block seems to strike without warning and leave you wordless, gasping and frustrated before you really know what's hit you. There is a better way to prepare for these times when writer's block strikes, a new approach that means you'll laugh in its face rather than cower and succumb to it's bully boy tactics. Read on to discover why this approach is effective and how you can start using in your creative writing life today...


  • Creative Writing - How To Have And Develop More Creative Writing Ideas Than You Thought Possible
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Do you struggle to have new ideas for your creative writing? Then even if you do have an idea, you don't know how to develop it further, and shape it into an interesting piece of writing? Read on to find the technique that allows me to write an article a day before I've finished breakfast, and develop more creative writing ideas than I can keep up with...


  • Choose Creativity - Your Sparkling Creative Future Begins Today!
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] It's easy to get stuck in negative ways of thinking that leave us feeling powerless, frustrated, and not in control. But in every part of your life - your creative life included - you have the choice. You can choose exactly how creative you're going to be. Not convinced? Read on to find out why this is true, and how YOU can choose a sparkling creative future, starting today...


  • Be More Creative - How To Get The Creativity Habit
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you find it a struggle to create consistently? Do you create in small bursts of activity, launching into new projects with great enthusiasm and energy, only for it evaporate less than a few days later? Would you like a way to be more creative, to create more deeply and regularly, and reduce that stop-start erratic approach that causes such frustration? There is a way. In fact it's the only way to be consistently creative. You need to get the creativity habit... Here's how...


  • How To Beat Procrastination - Focus On The When Not The Why
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Procrastination has been creativity's arch enemy since the dawn of man. "Hmm, I really want to do a new cave painting, but I'd need to go and rearrange my bone collection first in size order. And I've got a whole stack of mammoth fur loincloths that need ironing..."


  • Creative Writing Journal - The Only Way To The Consistent, Abundant Creative Writing You Deserve
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Do you struggle as a writer to be consistent in how much you write, how often you write, and the quality of what you write? Are you frustrated with having sporadic bursts of creative writing that flow freely, and easily, interspersed with long frustrating barren periods? Then a creative writing journal may be exactly what you need. Read on to find out how a journal can make a difference to your writing and 5 top tips to get the most from using yours...


  • Creative Writing - 5 Tips To Increase Your Self Confidence As A Creative Writer
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Confidence is crucial in being able to write freely and consistently, and to be able to fully enjoy your creative writing. How confident are you right now in your writing, on a scale of 1-10? If you answered around 5 or below, carry on reading for 5 top tips you can start using right away to boost your creative writing confidence...


  • Creative Self Belief - Top Techniques To Boost Your Creative Self Belief To New Levels
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How strong is your self belief when it comes to creating? Do you believe you're highly creative, full of ideas and can create freely and easily? If the answer to any of these is less then a resounding YES, then read on to discover 2 top techniques you can use to boost your creative self belief today...


  • Be More Creative - How To Find The Creative Support Your Creativity Needs And Deserves
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How often do you feel totally alone and isolated in your creative efforts? Does it sometimes feel like your creative side is some dark secret you dare not reveal to the rest of the world? Carry on reading to discover the many benefits of finding supportive, like-minded people to encourage your creativity, and how you can find them today.


  • Time To Create - How To Make More Time To Create What Matters
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How regularly do you find time to create? My guess is not nearly as often as you'd like. The main reason why most of us don't create more is we get sucked into a battle of priorities in our minds, trying to weigh up the importance of creative time against all the other task demanding our attention. Read on to find why this is a recipe for frustration, resentment and very little fulfilling creating, and to discover an alternative approach that actually works.


  • Creative Writing - Top 5 Reasons You're Not Reaching Your Creative Writing Potential
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Are you struggling to write as well as you know you can? Do you feel your creative writing just isn't reaching the heights you're capable of and it's become more of frustrating chore than an enjoyable part of your life? There are many reasons why this could be. Here are 5 of the top reasons why we don't reach our creative writing potential - and some tips on how to turn them around...


  • Creative Self-Sabotage - How To Prevent The Perfect Murder Of Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Did you realise that your creativity is being murdered while you sleep? A little part each day is slowly destroyed by the habits and attitudes of creative self-sabotage you're barely aware you're doing. Read on to discover 5 of the biggest culprits and how to avoid their devious and murderous ways!


  • Stop Choking Your Creativity! How To Have More Great Creative Ideas Than You Thought You Could
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Often the reason we're not more creative is that we're limiting our creativity ourselves, maybe without even knowing it. One of the main ways is how you have and capture creative ideas. Without ideas, creativity is nothing, it has no raw material to even begin with. Read on to discover the 2 key elements to having more great creative ideas than you thought you were capable of...


  • Increase Creativity - 5 Ways You're Choking Your Creativity - And How To Loosen Your Grip!
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Is it possible you're choking your creativity to death without even knowing? Even with the best of intentions to be more creative, if you're doing one or more of these 5 things, your creativity will seriously suffer. Read on to find what they are, and a far more positive alternative for each...


  • Increase Creativity - How To Rediscover The Creativity You Thought You'd Lost Forever
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] When was the last time you felt you were truly creative, and making good use of your creative talents? It's probably more long ago than you want to think about. Here's a 3 step plan for getting your creativity back on track and becoming once more the creative person you were scared you'd lost forever.


  • Creative Writing Journal - Why A Writing Journal Doesn't Work For Some Creative Writers
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] A creative writing journal is the single best way to capture all the wonderful ideas you have, which you can then develop for your creative writing. But a journal doesn't work for some creative writers. Maybe you're one of them? Read on to find out why it's not working, and how to turn it around and get the most from the creative writer's most valuable tool...


  • Writer's Block RIP - Is It Possible To Banish Writer's Block For Good?
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Writer's block can strike any writer, it doesn't discriminate. But is it possible to actually eliminate writer's block for good? Read on to find out, and to learn 3 great practical tips you can use from today to help you reduce the frustration of writer's block.


  • Personal Creative Writing - The Value Of Writing Just For Yourself
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] We rarely take the time to write creatively just for ourselves, even though it's some of the most valuable, rewarding writing we can do. The advantages of personal creative writing are many. Read on to discover 3 of the most common reasons you DON'T spend more time writing creatively just for yourself, and the benefits you’re missing out on...


  • Creative Writing - How To Write Better, Faster, More By Focusing Your Creative Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Would you like to learn how to enhance your creative writing by becoming more focused? Here are the 3 main areas you can focus on to help you write better, write faster and write more...


  • Overcoming Procrastination - The Fatal Flaw In Your Approach To Beating Procrastination
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Procrastination affects all of us who create. It's one of the major reasons why we don't reach our creative potential and continue to struggle to create freely and rewardingly. You've probably tried to overcome procrastination before. But unless you avoid the one fatal flaw that we all make, you're not only unlikely to beat procrastination, you'll actually make it even worse. Read on to find what that fatal flaw is, and how to use a different approach that really works:


  • Writer's Block - The Curse Of Perfectionism And How To Overcome It In Your Creative Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] One of the major causes of writer's block is the quest for perfectionism - trying to make every paragraph, word and syllable completely perfect at first attempt. Read on to discover how this causes such a frustrating block in your creative writing, and learn the small change in perspective that can make all the difference in helping you overcome writer's block:


  • Beat Procrastination - Why Just Because You Procrastinate It DOESN'T Mean You're Lazy Or A Failure
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Procrastination is bad enough on its own. But what comes with it are feelings the because you're not creating you're lazy and inadequate. This then spirals off in a negative cycle before you even realised. Read on if you'd like to find out why this happens and how you can avoid and overcome it:


  • Procrastination vs Creativity-Why The Battle Of Procrastination & Creativity Needn't Be A Bloodbath
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Procrastination can effect anyone who creates, whoever they are, whatever it is they create. But the battle of procrastination vs creativity needn't be a bloodbath with the fatal casualties being your energy, motivation and sanity. Here's 3 steps to ensuring procrastination and creativity exist as harmoniously as possible in your creative life:


  • Overcoming Procrastination - The Mistake You're Making That's Means You'll Always Procrastinate
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Are you aware of the one simple but crucial mistake you're making that means procrastination continues to run riot in your life? Read on to find out what that mistake is, and how you can avoid it:


  • Procrastination - 7 Favourite Disguises Of The Silent Assassin Called Procrastination
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Do you realise what a devious and silent assassin procrastination is? It can slip in undetected and choke your creativity before you’ve even realised. In this article, the top 7 favourite disguises procrastination loves to use are revealed: You may be surprised at what you read:


  • Unleash Your Creativity - How To Resurrect Your Creativity This Weekend
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Have you not created regularly for so long you can barely remember how? Do you talk of being creative with same nostalgia that you talk about Black and White TV, the heady days of disco or big shoulder pads and even bigger hair? Here's your 3 step plan to help you resurrect your creativity, starting this weekend...


  • Creativity Myths Exposed - I Shouldn't Ever Repeat Myself In My Creative Work
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you worry that you're repeating yourself in your creative work? Do you seem to draw the same faces, write the same stories, play the same rhythms? Repeating yourself in your creative work is not the disastrous situation you might fear it is. In fact it's actually completely necessary to fully realise your creative potential. Read on to discover 3 of the major reasons why:


  • Writer's Block - How To Eliminate Writer's Block In 3 Simple Steps
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Writer's block is regularly cited as the main reason why creative writers don't write more deeply and more often. But as writers we're far from powerless in combating it. Here's a simple yet effective 3 step plan to overcoming the effects of writer's block that you can begin using right away:


  • Creativity Myths Exposed - Only A Special Chosen Few Can Be Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you believe that we each have our own unique creative talents and abilities? Or, like many of us, do you actually believe that there are only a very few who are "chosen" and are real, genuine creative artists? Read on to find out why this creativity myth is so destructive and how it limits your creativity even more than you may realise:


  • Writer's Block - Why You'll Only Have Writer's Block If You BELIEVE You'll Have Writer's Block
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Many of us feel that as creative writers it's inevitable that we'll suffer regularly from writer's block. But we don't have to sit and wait powerlessly for it to strike. Here's why you'll only have writer's block if you BELIEVE you'll have it, and how to start changing those beliefs for more positive ones today...


  • How To Increase Creativity By Finding Your Creative Groove - 7 Top Tips To Be More Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] When you're in your creative groove, you lose track of time, creative energy flows easily and freely, you feel more alive, more connected, and that this is what you're here to create. Sounds wonderful, but how do you get into your creative groove, and how do you stay in it? Here are 7 top tips to show you how:


  • Overcoming Procrastination - Is Your Creativity Being Held Hostage By Procrastination?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How often do you procrastinate? Honestly? How often do you sit down to create with the best of intentions then minutes later find yourself involved in some other task, usually involving cleaning, eating or checking email! It feels sometimes like procrastination has taken your creativity hostage and is demanding an impossibly high ransom for its release. But it doesn't need to be like this. Read on to find the first step to beating procrastination and freeing your creativity:


  • Increase Creativity - How To Identify And Eliminate The Lethal Loops That Destroy Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you know the one thing that stops you creating more than anything else? No, it's not lack of time, procrastination, limited resources or a shortage of ideas. Read on to find out what it is, and how you can start to overcome it and increase your creativity today:


  • Creative Communities - 7 Ways A Creative Community Can Boost Your Creativity Today
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How often do you feel that you're creating in isolation, with no-one to even acknowledge you're creating, let alone appreciate your creative work? Being a part of a creative community is the best way to overcome this. Read on for 7 of the most compelling reasons why a creative community can increase your creativity and end this feeling of creating all alone:


  • The Creative Life - Screaming At The Silent Wall - Does Anyone Really Care What I Create?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you often wonder if anyone even knows that you're creative, let alone cares WHAT you create? Sometimes our creative efforts inspire others in ways we don't even realise. Here's an example to give you hope and encouragement to keep creating:


  • Create First, Think Later! How Over Thinking Your Creative Projects Leads To Procrastination
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How often do you find yourself getting caught up in thinking, analysing and procrastinating about creating, rather than just creating? You feel that initial enthusiasm gradually draining away and before you realise, hours have passed and you've created... nothing. Don't despair, there is another way. Create first, think later. Here's why it works and how you can start using it today to increase your creativity:


  • Creativity Out For The Count? Here's 5 Ways To Give Your Creativity The Kiss Of Life
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Has it felt lately like your creativity is lethargic or half asleep? Have you actually wondered if you should check your creativity still has a pulse, it's been so inactive? Here are 5 ways to gently reawaken your creativity, and give it the kiss of life it needs to start thriving once again...


  • Be More Creative - 10 Tips To Help You Increase Your Creativity Today
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you feel you're not using your full creative potential? Are you struggling to be as creative as deep down you know you're capable of being? Here are 10 great tips to get your boost your creativity that you can start using right away:


  • Fearless Creating in 5 Steps - How To Create Purely For The Love Of Creating
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] It’s easy to get lost in creative projects and be overwhelmed by fears, doubts, and loss of focus and motivation. Sometimes this leads to us forgetting to create just for the love of creating, and the pleasure this brings. So here's a 5 step plan to get you back to creating fearlessly, purely for the pleasure of creating today:


  • Creative Writing Journal - What It Is And Why As A Creative Writer You Can't Afford To Be Without It
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] A creative writing journal is the most useful tool you can have as a creative writer. To find out more about what a creative writing journal is, and how you can use one to enhance your creative writing from first idea through to the full development of that idea, carry on reading:


  • Creative Writing Journal - 5 Biggest Mistakes That Make Using A Creative Writing Journal Ineffective
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Using a creative writing journal can take your creative writing to new levels, from the moment you have an idea onwards. But only if you use it effectively. Here are the 5 biggest mistakes we can make that mean using a creative writing journal can be a frustrating and fruitless experience, and how to turn them around:


  • Creative Writing Journal - The Creative Writer's Secret Weapon - Are You Using One?
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] There's a gulf of difference between a creative writer who has a steady flow of ideas and writes consistently and a writer who struggles for ideas and hardly writes at all. Isn't there? Actually, no. The difference is the creative writer's secret weapon - a creative writing journal. Here's how using a writing journal can help YOU write more in the two key areas of creative writing:


  • Creative Writing Journal - How Can A Creative Writing Journal Help My Creative Writing?
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Are you looking for a way to have more creative writing ideas and write more effectively, more often? Using a creative writing journal can help you in all of these, in a very short space time. Read on to find out how:


  • Your Creative Writing Journal - 7 Reasons To Never Leave Home Without Your Creative Writing Journal
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] As a creative writer, do you use a creative writing journal? Do you carry it with you wherever you go? If not, you're missing out on the most valuable tool a creative writer has available to them.


  • Creative Confidence - Your 5 Step Plan For How To Survive A Crisis In Creative Confidence
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] When our self-confidence is high, creating comes freely and abundantly, gushing like a waterfall in the spring thaw. But without it, it's a somewhat different picture. We can't get going on any project without feeling everything we do - every sentence, brushstroke, note, stitch or dance step - is weak, off kilter, lackluster, uninspired. In short, what starts as feeling uncreative and a bit stuck can quickly develop into a major crisis of creative confidence. So what can we do? Here's a proven 5 step plan for getting back YOUR creative confidence when a crisis hits:


  • Creativity And Perfectionism - A Marriage Made In Hell - Here's 7 Reasons To File For Divorce
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] One of the major reasons why people don't create as much, as often, or as deeply as they can is because of perfectionism. The fear of making a mistake or messing up, or not getting our creative work absolutely perfect, means sometimes it holds us back so much we don't even get started. If you want to be as creative as you can be, perfectionism is far from an ideal partner. In fact creativity and perfectionism are a marriage made in hell! Read on for 7 reasons why YOUR creativity should be filing for divorce...


  • Creative Focus - What The Story Of Antonio's Restaurant Can Teach You About Being Creatively Focused
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How many creative projects have you started but not finished? How often do you struggle to focus your creativity enough to make significant progress with something creative you're working on, rather than get distracted and start something else? You're not alone. Read the story of chef Antonio for a great example of how getting creatively focused can make a dramatic difference, and how YOU can start to get more focused in your creative life.


  • Creativity In Crisis? How To Stop, Breathe And Begin Again And Get Your Creativity Back On Track
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] When's the last time you felt so anxious about what you should and could be creating, you could barely create at all? When did you last feel dejected, uninspired and stuck with a creative project, desperately slogging away but not getting anywhere? If you've had a creativity crisis similar to either of these situations, read on to find out how using 3 simple steps to Stop, Breathe and Begin Again can get your creativity right back on track.


  • Creative Sensuality - Get The Most From Your 5 Senses To Enrich Your Creative Work
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] The key to any stimulating and evocative art is how it connects with us, how it taps in to our 5 senses. How effectively are you using each of these senses in your creative work? Read on to find out how vital it is, and how you can enrich your creative projects further.


  • Creative Focus - How To Go From Scattershot To Laser Focused In 3 Steps
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Getting focused and working on just one creative project for a sustained period of time is one of the things we struggle with most as creative people. Would you like to learn a simple 3 step process to getting your creativity laser-focused rather than firing scattershot in all directions? Then read on to find out more:


  • 7 Benefits Of A Creative Community- Why Continue To Struggle To Create Alone?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Does it feel like you're creating alone in isolation much of the time, with no support, no-one to share your work with, no-one to connect with? These days it's so much easier to find a creative community that can support our needs, where we can interact with other people who share our creative passions. Here are 7 compelling reasons why you should consider finding and becoming part of a creative community yourself-


  • Creativity - 5 Ways To Ensure Your Creative Life Is Built On Firm Foundations Not Shifting Sands
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Remember the story of the wise man who built his house upon the rock? Whatever we build, if we want it to last it must have strong foundations. That’s true for your creative life too. Here are 5 crucial foundations for a healthy and fulfilling creative life. How many do YOU have in place? Read on to find out more.


  • Be More Creative - How A Giant YES On Your Wall Gives You Permission To Be Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How much is your creativity limited because you don't allow yourself to be more creative? Most of the time you don't mean to, and it's in subtle ways, like the beliefs you have about your creativity that you don't realise hold you back. Read on to find how you can turn these around and give yourself permission today to be as creative as you know you can be.


  • Stop Waiting, Start Creating! How Much Time Do YOU Spend Just Hanging Around Waiting For Others?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How often do you feel frustrated because you could be creating, and instead you're waiting around for someone else? Then when they do arrive, you're not quite sure what to do in the short time you have, so neither of you gets much from your time together! Read on to see how this happens, and how you can find a better way to make use of your time with those important to you...


  • Creative Freedom - The Benefits Of Creating Just For The Joy Of Creating
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How often do you create just for the pleasure of creating? How often do you allow yourself to be free from any expectation of creating an "end product" and just enjoy the creative process? Probably not often enough! Read on to find out why this type of creativity is so valuable, and how you can bring more of it into your creative life...


  • Creative But Isolated? The Advantages Of Creative Communities And Finding Your Own Creative Tribe
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you often find your creative life lonely and isolated? Do you feel you'd love to be part of a creative community that could support, encourage and motivate you to be more creative? Somewhere to share ideas, experiences and resources? Read on to see how finding your own creative community - your own Creative Tribe - can help increase your creativity and enjoyment of creating...


  • Creative Writing With Confidence - 7 Ways To Kick-Start Your Confidence In Creative Writing Today
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Would you like to be more confident in your creative writing? Here are 7 top ways to boost your creative confidence that you can start using right away...


  • Procrastination, Your New Special Best Friend - How Procrastination Can Help You Be MORE Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How often does procrastination stop you creating? Honestly, how often? Rather than see it as the enemy, procrastination actually can help you be more creative in a way nothing else can. You just need to know how. Sound unlikely? Read on to find out more:


  • Creatively Stuck? How To Ask The Right Questions To Get Your Creativity Flowing Freely Again
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Are you feeling creatively stuck right now? Not sure what to create, how to create it or even why you're creating at all?! Sometimes it's just about asking the right questions. Carry on reading to find how to ask the right questions - and find the right answers - for YOUR creative life:


  • Creating With Intention - How Clear Intentions Help You Be More Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you know why you create what you create? Did you realise that by creating with a clear intention you instantly give your creativity the green light to create more easily and with more focus? Read on to find out how you can make this work for your creativity:


  • Going Deep With Your Creativity - How To Find Why You REALLY Create
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you know why you REALLY create? The motivation that drives you to create anything? Once you understand the deeper values behind why you create, you're able to create with more ease, clarity, focus and purpose. Use the exercise and guided examples in this article to help you find YOUR deeper values behind your creativity...


  • How To Be More Creative - Should You Go For Hot Flash Or Slow Burn?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How do you create? Slowly and steadily, a little each day? Or in hot productive bursts with long uncreative periods in between? Read on to find more about each method, and the best way for YOU to be more creative:


  • Increase Creativity - Tap Into The Rich Creative Source Of Your Dreams
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How many great creative ideas have you had as a result of a dream? We all have dreams, just most of the time we don't remember them. Here's a way to recall your dreams in more detail, and tap into what could just be one of the richest sources of inspiration your creativity will ever know.


  • Creative Ideas - How To Deal With An Overload Of Creative Ideas
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Many people complain that they don't have enough good ideas. For many creative people though, the opposite is true. We have so many ideas, trying to focus on just on or two becomes almost overwhelming. Read on to find a powerful tried and tested technique to better deal with this type of ideas overload:


  • Increase Creativity A-Z - Z Is For Zzz - Does Your Creativity Feel Stuck In A Deep Sleep?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you often feel your creativity is so inactive it feels like it's lost in a deep sleep? Don't worry, it's not a hopeless cause! Your creativity may be sleeping, but it isn't dead! Carry on reading to find out how to give your creativity the wake up call it needs...


  • Creative Writing - Are You Prepared In Body And Mind To Be A Creative Writer?
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Writing is just about sitting down and writing isn't it? Yes, that's at the heart of it. But to reach your full potential as a creative writer there's plenty you can work on to prepare yourself in body and mind. Read on for some top tips in enhancing both of these elements:


  • Creative Writing Ideas- 3 Steps To Finding An Endless Source Of New Ideas For Your Creative Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Feeling short of creative writing ideas? Wondering when (or even IF) the next great idea will come? Here's your 3 steps to having all the creative writing ideas you'll ever need:


  • Creative Writing Prompts- Why Creative Writing Prompts Help You Become A Better Creative Writer
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Have you ever used creative writing prompts to help you write more easily, more creatively and more confidently? If not you could be missing out. Read on to find out 5 of the biggest reasons why creative writing prompts can help YOU become a better creative writer-


  • Be More Creative - How To Avoid The 7 Deadly "Shoulds" That Could Be Killing Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] We're told all the time we should do this and we should do that if we want to be creative and happy. Often without realising it, these strong messages can deeply influence both WHAT we create, and the WAY we create. Here are 7 of the most deadly shoulds to avoid that could already be killing YOUR creativity:


  • The Secret Of Creative Happiness? Do What Works, Do What Matters
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Is there one simple secret to finding and maintaining a creative and happy life that's right for you? Well, yes and no. The bad news is, there isn't one simple secret that works for everyone. The good news is, there ARE 2 essential parts that you can start putting into place in your creative life right away...


  • Be Creative And Proud Of It- 5 Reasons Why Being Creative Is Not A Dirty Secret
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you hide your creativity away like some shameful secret? Do you only talk about being creative to a select few, like you're in some secret disapproved of cult? It’s time to come out and celebrate your creativity! Here are 5 of the top reasons why being creatively open is good for you and not a dirty secret-


  • Creatively Stuck? 3 Ways To Instantly Get Unstuck And Be More Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you often find yourself getting stuck in your creativity? That horrible feeling where the walls are closing in and the flow of your ideas and momentum feels drier than a cactus in the Sahara desert? Here are 3 great ways to help you get you unstuck and back to creating again:


  • Creativity- How To Finish Your Creative Projects - Accept, Adapt Or Abandon?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you have unfinished projects lying around causing you anguish and to question whether you’ll ever finish a project again? You're not alone. Here are the three choices you have to help when you reach that "sticky point" in your creative projects:


  • Creativity Myth No1 - What It Is And How It Destroys YOUR Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you know the biggest myth about creativity that stops more people creating than any other? Find out what it is, and how to end its destructive influence in your creative life, by reading on.


  • Creative Pathways - How To Find And Follow The Creative Pathways Right For You
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] The creative pathways you've taken throughout your life have led you to who and where you are today as a creative person. But how well do you know what your creative pathways have been? What have been the key landmarks and turning points? Find out, and how they can help you move forward in your creative life, with this simple exercise...


  • How To Be Creative - A Beginner's Guide
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you doubt you know how to be creative? Do you long to be more creative but don't have a clue where to start? Read on for 5 steps to get your creativity flowing freely.


  • Creative Writing - The 5 Biggest Mistakes To Avoid That Stop You Become A Better Creative Writer
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] There are any number of dangers that can prevent you from being the best creative writer you can be. Are you aware of those that are restricting you? Read on to see 5 of the most common that can hold back your creative writing, and how you can avoid them:


  • Creative Writing - 3 Key Steps To Get Started In Creative Writing Today
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Do you have the urge to write? Do you long to start creative writing but don't really know how or where to start? Then read on to discover 3 key steps to get you started with your creative writing today...


  • Creative Writing Fears - I'm Scared I'm Running Out Of Ideas For My Creative Writing. What Can I Do?
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Do you fear running out of ideas for your creative writing? Or maybe you already feel you have run out of ideas? There are two approaches to overcoming this common issue. One gives drastically different results than the other. Here’s why, and which you can start using to boost your creative writing today...


  • Increase Creativity A-Z - Y Is For YES! How To Give Your Creativity Permission To Be Amazing
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] What stops you reaching your full creative potential? Lack of focus? Not enough time? Procrastination? Maybe up to a point. But there's something deeper, something that will ALWAYS restrict how creative you are, until you learn what it is, and how to overcome it. Read on to find out how...


  • Increase Creativity A-Z - X Is For X-Factor - Finding The Secret To Creativity And Happiness
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Is there really a secret "X-Factor" to increasing your creativity and having the creative, happy life you desire? Well, though we're all different and unique individuals, there ARE guidelines to follow that work for ANYONE who wants to be as creative as they can be. Read on to find out what they are and how to make them work for you.


  • Increase Creativity A-Z – W Is For Widescreen- Is A Narrow Creative Vision Blocking Your Creativity?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you have a technicolour widescreen vision for how you want your creative life to be? Can you see, hear and feel how everything around you will be in order for your creativity to thrive? If your vision is more black and white portable TV than widescreen cinema, it’s likely to be seriously limiting your creativity. Read on to find out why a widescreen vision makes such a difference and the key questions to ask yourself to find yours:


  • Increase Creativity A-Z – V Is For Valid- 5 Reasons Why Yes What YOU Create IS Important!
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you have doubts that what you create is worthwhile, valid or important? Read on to find 5 compelling reasons why your creative work is not only valid and important, but downright essential to you and the world around you:


  • Increase Creativity A-Z – U Is For Understanding: How To Find & Understand Your True Creative Self
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you sometimes find yourself stopping in the middle of creating and wondering "Why am I doing this? I'm not even enjoying it anymore!". It's a trap that's easy to fall into. Find out why this happens, and 5 top ways to rediscover and understand what the REAL creative you longs to create-


  • Creative Writing - 3 Fatal Mistakes That Stop You Ever Finishing Your Creative Writing Projects
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] How many unfinished creative writing projects are gathering dust in YOUR notebooks and computer's hard drive? Half a dozen? Two dozen? Too many to count? Keep reading to learn about 3 of the most fatal mistakes writers make that stops them ever finishing writing projects, and how YOU can avoid them.


  • Creative Self Image - Is Your Outdated Creative Self Image Choking The Life Out Of Your Creativity?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] We all have a self-image, a picture or collection of pictures in our heads about how we think we are and how we think we appear to the outside world. What does your identikit picture of yourself as a creative person look like? Be honest with yourself, how accurate and up to date is this picture today? Are there actually parts of your outdated creative self-image are causing you unnecessary pain, and choking your creativity?


  • The Myth Of Creative Freedom - How Making Boundaries Actually Sets Your Creativity Free
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] "Creative Freedom" at first sounds like the perfect state to strive for. But when we ARE free from limitations on our creativity, what actually happens is we freeze and end up creating nothing. Read on to find why is happens, and how to overcome it in YOUR creative life:


  • Am I Creative? No You're Not JUST Creative - You're MULTI-Creative! And Here's Why...
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you have doubts that you're creative? Well the fact is you're not JUST creative. You're MULTI-creative! Read on to find out why this is the norm rather than the exception, and how you can start to reveal your multi-creative talents and put them into action-


  • Over The Rainbow- How To Use Colour To Increase Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Colour is a crucial element in our visual sense and different colours can provoke different feelings, moods and responses as we create. Read on to find some top tips in using colour to increase YOUR creativity:


  • Creative Writing And Overcoming The Disease To Please - What Do You REALLY Long To Write?
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Sometimes even if we write prolifically, though we produce a lot of writing, it's not the words we truly want to be writing. How true is this for you and your writing? Read on to find out more...


  • Creative Writing - The 5 Key Principles Of Abundant Creative Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Do you know the 5 principles of abundant creative writing that can take your writing to whole new levels? Read on to find out more, and to see how you can start using them right away.


  • Creative Writing and Procrastination - Why You're Reading This Article Right Now Instead Of Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Procrastination strikes all of us. It leads us to doing all kinds of things with good intentions, but with the same end result: they help us avoid doing what it is we really want to be doing. Read on to find out how and why this happens, and what the only lasting solution is:


  • Creativity Secrets- The Single Tiny Creativity Secret That Will Catapult Your Creativity Into Orbit
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Eighteen months ago I struggled to write 2 or 3 articles a month. Now I comfortably write 30 plus articles every month, over 10 times that previous amount. What’s the single creativity secret that's enabled me to do this? Read on to find out, and how you can use it too, starting today...


  • Creativity And The Truth- Are You Having A Love Affair With An Imaginary Mistress?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Creativity is a core part of you, it's with you for life. So what kind of relationship are you going to have with it? A wild, idealistic love affair that ends in tears at the first sign of any problems? Read on to find out why this won’t work, and a better alternative...


  • Creative And Feeling Alone? What To Do When Your Friends Don't Support Your Creative Life
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Are your friends and those close to you supportive of your creative life? Do they accept that creativity is a core part of who you are and do all they can to nurture that? If the answer's less than a resounding "YES!", read on to find out why they may be like that, and what you can do about it...


  • Increase Creativity A-Z - T Is For Time - How To Instantly Make More Time To Create What Matters
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you have enough time to create as much as you'd like? Didn't think so! With one simple change of perspective, you can instantly make more time for your creativity. Read on to find out how to make this change today.


  • Increase Creativity A-Z- S Is For Space- How Your Own Creative Space Is Essential To Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you have your own special area or space set up to create in? If not, you’re probably seriously limiting your creativity and your ability to freely create. Your creative space needn’t be a lavish expensive art studio. Here are 5 tips to help you get started right away:


  • Unleash Your Creativity - If I Don't Use It Am I Going To Lose It?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] There's a commonly held belief that unless you make use of a talent you'll lose it. Is this true for creativity? Can you lose creative ability by not using it? And more importantly, what can you do to increase your creativity? Read on to find out more...


  • Increase Creativity A-Z - R Is For Risk - The Only Way To Keep Your Creativity Alive And Thriving
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Maybe you already create regularly, and demonstrate your strong commitment to your creative life. That’s fantastic, and a great achievement in itself. But there’s more to creativity than just showing up. Could it be your creativity has already slipped into a come and you never even realized? Read on to find out more about why taking a risk can be vital to keeping your creativity alive and thriving:


  • Be More Creative: Learning The Pursuit Of Progression Not Perfection Will Transform Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Constantly trying to be perfect is one of the biggest ways to destroy your creativity. However amazing the work you're producing is, if you're always looking for perfection, you'll always find some reason why your creative work isn't quite good enough. Travelling on the "If only" train is always a one way ticket to disappointment, frustration and ultimately becoming less brave, experimental and creative. Carry on reading to discover how to replace this destructive habit with one that's far more positive and supportive to your creativity:


  • Increase Creativity A-Z - Q Is For Questions- 5 Powerful Questions To Transform Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Negative and defeatist questions can seriously sap your creativity and undermine your confidence. But asking yourself the RIGHT kind questions can help you unlock your creativity and take it to new levels. Here are 5 such questions you can use right away:


  • Creative Writing- Can You Learn Creative Writing Or Is It Only For The Naturally Gifted?
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] It’s all too easy to get caught up in the false idea that talent is the same as success. Or more importantly, if you don't have massive commercial success, it doesn't mean in any way you're not talented as a writer. Read on to find out how in fact creative writing is not just for an elite few, and ALL of us can learn to be better creative writers, whatever our current level...


  • Creative Writing Confidence- 5 Powerful Ways To Kick Start Your Confidence As A Creative Writer
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Is your confidence in your creative writing bursting out at the seams right now? If so, brilliant, well done. Keep doing what you’re doing, it’s obviously having great results. For the rest of us, whose confidence could maybe use a little tender loving care, here are 5 powerful ways to kick start your confidence as a creative writer today:


  • Creative Writing- When To Focus, When To Write Wildly With Your Creative Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] We all get stuck in our creative writing projects from time to time. We feel though that we can't stop or lose focus, and unless we carry on slogging our way through one word at a time, it means we’ve failed somehow. But there is a different way to stay fresh with your creative writing, and still write those large ambitious projects. Read on to discover more-


  • Increase Creativity A-Z - P is For Perfectionism - Creativity Serial Killer On The Rampage
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How many creative projects have you taken to the point of "almost nearly perfect" and never got any further? Read on to find out why this happens time after time, and how the pursuit of perfectionism is among the most deadly of creativity killers:


  • Creative Writing- Why It's Not A Sin To Admit You're Scared To Write
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Fear, in its many ugly guises, has been the downfall of many writers, and has prevented them creating all they were capable of. The tragedy is, ALL writers get scared to write. Though it may seem like it sometimes, none of us write alone and none us feel fears that no-one else has ever felt. Read on to find out more about why it's not a sin to admit YOU’RE scared to write sometimes, and how to carry on writing anyway...


  • Increase Creativity A-Z – O Is For Overload! How To Focus When You Have Too Many Creative Ideas
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] As creative people we spend a lot of time trying to have more ideas, bigger ideas, better ideas. But what happens when we have TOO MANY creative ideas? So many that it actually prevents us starting to explore ANY of them? Read on to find out how this happens and how to move forward when it does...


  • Increase Creativity A-Z - N Is For Nurture- How To Nurture Your Creativity & See It Blossom
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Just as plants need careful nurturing to thrive and blossom, so does your creativity. And, like plants, with neglect and poor treatment, your creativity will soon begin to wither. Here are 5 crucial elements you can focus on to ensure YOUR creativity continues to bloom beautifully time and time again...


  • Increase Creativity A-Z - M Is For Mistakes - How Mistakes Can Be Your Creativity's Greatest Teacher
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] The fear of making mistakes when you create can be one of the biggest limiting factors in stopping you be as creative as you can be. Once you learn to embrace those mistakes though, you'll find they can be the greatest teacher your creativity can ever have. Read on to find out why, and how, this can work for you and your creativity:


  • Increase Creativity A-Z - L Is For Limitations - How You Limit Your Creativity Without Realising
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] There's one single underlying factor that determines how much you create, and how well you make use of your creative talents. Do you know what it is? To find out, and to start using it to be the creative person you know deep down you CAN be, carry on reading this article...


  • Increase Creativity A-Z - K Is For Knowledge - Why You ALREADY Know How To Be Highly Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Despite what you may think, you already KNOW how to be as creative as you could ever desire to be. The problem isn't the not knowing, it's in learning how to listen to that deeper source of knowledge within you through all the background noise. Read on to find the 3 key elements to how you can start becoming as creative as you want to be...


  • Creative Writing Ideas- The No.1 Mistake That Stops You Having All The Creative Ideas You Ever Need
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] How often have you thought IF ONLY you had more good ideas, your creative writing would hit new heights? The mistake we make is that it’s not actually HAVING the ideas that's the problem. Read on to find what the real issue is - the No.1 mistake that stops us having all the ideas we'll need - and how to overcome it...


  • Increase Creativity A-Z - J Is For Joy - How To Put The Joy Back In Your Creative Life Today
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Ever been in the middle of creating and suddenly realised it's just not any fun any more? What happened? Where did all the joy go? Isn't creating supposed to be fun? Carry on reading to find out why this happens, and how to start to rediscover the joy in YOUR creative life...


  • Increase Creativity A-Z - I Is For Inspiration - How To Never Run Dry Of Creative Inspiration
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] All the creative inspiration and ideas you need are right there within touching distance, just waiting to be discovered. Sound unlikely? Read on to find out how it can be true for you and your creative life...


  • Increase Creativity A-Z - H Is For Happiness - 3 Steps To Rediscover Your Creativity And Happiness
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] As creative people, two of the core elements in life are creativity and happiness. We spend our lives trying to be as happy and creative as we were as young children, and, deep down, we know we can be again. But are these highs of creativity and happiness lost forever? No, definitely not. So how do we get them back? The answer may be different to what you might think. Read on to find out more...


  • Creative Writing Prompts - How To Inject New Life At ALL Stages Of Your Creative Writing Projects
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Creative writing prompts aren't used to just produce ideas for brand new writing projects. They can be used to provide a boost of inspiration for existing projects too. Read on to find out the 3 types of writing project YOU can use writing prompts to help you inject fresh life into:


  • Increase Creativity A-Z - G Is For Goals - How To Set Goals To Help Focus & Boost Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Ok so goal setting doesn't sound the most exciting or glamorous topic in the world. But setting goals needn’t be difficult, complicated or dull. Here's a simple 3 step goal setting technique to help you focus and increase your creative output, starting today-


  • Creative Writing Prompts- A Cure For The Dreaded "Blank Screen Paralysis"
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Blank Screen Paralysis is that terrible feeling when you're sat at a blank screen or sheet of paper unable to write, wondering where the next few words will come from, never mind the next story or book. Creative writing prompts are a brilliant tool to use to combat this kind of writer's block. Read on to find out how they can help you-


  • Creative Writing Prompts- Superheroes In The Face Of Writer's Block!
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Creative block - or writer's block - is a kind of paralysis that can strike down even the most experienced writer. But there is hope. Read on to find out how you can have your own special team of superheroes waiting in the wings to save you from the evil of writer’s block.


  • Creative Writing Prompts- Can You Afford NOT To Use Them In Your Creative Writing?
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] How many times have you sat at a blank page or screen wondering where the next few words will come from, let alone the next article or story? Creative writing prompts can greatly reduce this uncomfortable blank screen syndrome. Can you afford NOT to start using them in your creative writing?


  • Creative Writing Prompts- How They Provide The Spark That Sets Your Creative Writing Ablaze
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Are you aware of how powerful creative writing prompts can be in taking your creative writing to new levels? Read on to find out how and why they're so effective-


  • Nurturing Your Creative Ideas- Don't Leave Them Standing Cold & Naked In The Rain!
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Everyone is capable of having great ideas. Ideas that can surprise us, springing up from nowhere and hit us firmly round the chops with a "I'm-just-so-obvious-why-haven't-you-come-across-me-before?!" kind of audacity. The difficult part is how we capture them at that point in all their glory before they're lost forever. Read on to find out how to dramatically increase the number of great creative ideas YOU capture and put to good use-


  • Creative Writing Fears- I'm Scared That Creative Writing Will Overcome My Whole Life
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] The fear that once you get start to find your creative writing voice you’ll not want to stop is not unusual. Maybe you're scared it could take over your whole life? Read on to find out what happens and how to overcome it-


  • Creative Writing Fears- I'm Scared Anything I Write Will Be Rejected So Why Bother Writing?
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Are you scared to write because you're work might be rejected once it's finished? This is a common fear among creative writers. Carry on reading to see how it occurs and what you can do to beat it-


  • Creative Writing Fears- I'm Scared I'll Waste Time On The Wrong Creative Writing Project
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Feeling scared to write because you think you might waste time on the wrong creative writing project is a common fear amongst writers. Read on to find out how it strikes and what to do to overcome it-


  • Creative Writing Fears- I'm Scared Of What I Might Unleash From My Creative Mind
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] A fear that's often overlooked with creative writers is that we might unleash ideas or images in our minds that scare us, unsettle us, make us feel uneasy. Read on to find out how this fear appears and what you can do to cope with it when it does appear:


  • Creative Writing Fears - I'm Scared I'll Use Up All My Creative Ideas If I Write Too Much Too Soon
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] One of the most common fears of creative writers is that if you write too much you'll somehow run dry of creative ideas. This stems from a belief that we each have a fixed limit to the number of ideas we can produce. Read on to find out how this fear can hit and what you can do to beat it when it does:


  • Increase Creativity A-Z - F Is For Focus - 5 Ways To Get Creatively Focused Starting Today
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Struggling to focus on one idea or creative project long enough to actually make significant progress with it is a common issue for creative people. So if you flutter between projects like a butterfly after a few espressos too many, then read on to discover 5 ways to help you get more focused in your creativity, starting today:


  • Increase Creativity A-Z- E Is For Everyday - How Often You Should Create To Maximise Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] What’s the secret to being as creative as you want to be, and to reaching your true creative potential? It’s simpler than you might think. Read on to find out what it is, and why it’s so powerful.


  • Increase Creativity A-Z- D Is For Disappointment- How To Bounce Back From Creative Disappointments
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How many times have you been disappointed in some part of your creative life? How many times has this disappointment held you back from picking yourself up and moving on to the next project a more experienced person? If you’ve ever suffered from the powerful negative effects disappointment can have, then here's a 3 step plan to overcome it you can put into action right away-


  • Increase Creativity A-Z - C Is For Connection – Connect More Deeply With Yourself & Others
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Our creativity can be used in many ways to connect ourselves more deeply. When we do we feel more alive, more optimistic, more passionate about life and more happy. Read on to find out more about the ways in which we can connect more deeply and more often - to ourselves, and to other people - through creating:


  • Increase Creativity A-Z - B Is For Balance – How To Use Your Creativity In ALL Areas Of Your Life
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] We all have a number of important different areas in our lives, and creativity is just one of them. Or is it..? Read on to find out how this perception of an ongoing battle of "My Creative Life" Vs "Everything Else In My Life" leads to unnecessary conflict and struggle – and how you can use your creativity to take a different, more balanced approach:


  • Increase Creativity A-Z - A Is For Action - How To Take Creative Action Before You Go To Bed Tonight
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] You can be the most talented creative person in the world, but it means very little unless you put that creative potential - those ideas, talents and dreams into action. Here's a simple to use technique to help you get going before you go to sleep tonight...


  • Be More Creative - How Often Are You REALLY Showing Up To Create With All Your Heart, Mind & Soul?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Showing up is the starting to achieving anything in your creative life. But there’s showing up, then there’s showing up. Read on to find the difference, and 3 key ways you can be more present – and therefore more creative - in YOUR creative projects.


  • Why You Don't Create More: The Crucial Difference Between "Working" And "Struggling" When You Create
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] It doesn't matter whether you spend 15 minutes a day or 15 hours a day creating if it's a constant struggle with little enjoyment or pleasure. It's often easy to confuse "working on a project, making progress and having fun," with "struggling on a project, making a lot of effort but getting nowhere" if the total time we're spending on it is the same. Read on to find out how to recognise the difference between "working" and "struggling" in your creative projects, and how this can help you make better use of your valuable creative time and energy...


  • Increase Your Creativity - 3 Mistakes To Avoid When Finding Your Unique Natural Creative Flow
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] No doubt you've experienced being "in the flow" with your creativity and how effortless and easy everything seems when that happens. But, like for most of us, that probably doesn't happen anything like as often as you'd like. So here are 3 of the most common mistakes we make to stop us finding our unique creative flow - and how to avoid and overcome them.


  • Creatively Punch Drunk? How To Avoid A Painful 12 Round Beating Each Time YOU Create
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] All of us who create know that no-one can sabotage or undermine our creativity and our creative efforts anything like as well as we can. Getting in a boxing ring with the World Heavyweight Champion sometimes seems more appealing than the mental battering we give ourselves about our creative output. Here's 5 common ways we dish out the pain to ourselves. See how many you recognise:


  • Creative Writing- 5 Crucial Reasons Why You Never Really Get Going With Your Creative Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] on a scale of 0 to 100, how happy are you with your creative writing right now? If you said anything less than about 80, then obviously you’re aware there are factors that are stopping back from really getting going with your creative writing. Read on to discover the top 5 reasons why, and what you can do instead, starting today, to overcome them...


  • Creative Writing - The Secrets To Being A Creative Writer You Didn't Realize You Already Knew
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] As you develop as a creative writer, it's useful to get tips, pointers and approaches that have worked for other writers. But there are in fact no bigger and more precious creative writing "secrets" than those you already know. Read on to find out how to discover them within YOU...


  • Happiness- How To Light Up Your Life
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] All of us want to be happy in our lives. Sometimes though, happiness feels a long way away. When we begin to notice the things that bring light into out life though, and those that steal light from our life, we can start to take action to be more happy. Read on to find out how to make this work for you, and how you can be happy and light up YOUR life:


  • Creative Artist? ME? YES! How To Prove You're Far More Creative Than You Think You Are
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Nearly all of us who create have doubts about how creative we are. Sometimes the idea that we're a "Creative Artist" seems almost ridiculous, and a distant dream. So it's time to gather up your Artistic Evidence - everything that shows actually you're far more creative than you realize. Read on to find out exactly how...


  • Increase Your Creativity - The Power Of Letting Your Creativity Go Underground
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] There are many different ways of using our creativity. One of the most powerful and useful is letting it work underground, behind the scenes and out of sight, while you get on with something else. Here's why, and how, it works:


  • Creative Writing - How To Double Your Productivity In Creative Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] To become a better writer, all you have to do is write more. Of course, you knew that already. What you also know is that sometimes it's a struggle even string a whole sentence together, let alone start talking about doubling productivity. So here's a proven technique that can help you increase both the quantity AND the quality of your creative writing, in just a few steps...


  • Creative Writing Prompts - Supercharge Your Creative Writing Today Using Prompts
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] We all experience times when our creative writing ideas have run so dry we consider a holiday in the Sahara Desert having a more appealing climate. It's during these times especially we can use creative writing prompts to not only get our writing flowing again, but to supercharge it to new levels. Read on to find out more...


  • Creative Writing Prompts - But Isn't It Cheating To Use Prompts To Enhance My Creative Writing?
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Many creative writers feel uncomfortable using creative writing prompts. They're concerned it's somehow cheating and their ideas should be completely their own. Read on to find out why this concern, though honourable in principle, is actually completely unfounded, and how you can use prompts to enhance your creative writing:


  • Increase Your Creativity In Unpredictable Times- How To Embrace The Static In Life And Create Anyway
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Whoever we are, whatever we do, we all have static in our lives. Those unpredictable, difficult events and circumstances that crop up when we least expect them and threaten to send our creative plans spinning into turmoil. Maybe these are the kind of things that normally throw your creativity completely off course and into either blind panic or a complete standstill? If so, read on to find ways you can embrace this static in your life and carry on creating anyway -


  • Creative Writing - 5 Reasons Why You're Not Reaching Your Creative Writing Potential
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] However naturally gifted you are as a writer, it's unlikely you've reached anywhere near your potential. But do you know why? There are any number of reasons. Here are 5 of the most common, so read on to find out why you’re not reaching YOUR creative writing potential:


  • Increase Creativity- What A Scary Old Haunted House Can Teach You About Why You Don't Create More
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How would you feel if you had to spend a night in a scary run down haunted house? Whether the thought terrifies or delights you, there’s plenty the experience can teach us about why we don’t create more. There are two crucial factors here. Continue reading to find out more...


  • Be More Creative - Why It's Selfish NOT To Use Your Creative Talents
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Most of us who create feel that spending anything more than a few moments a day on creating is selfish, even self-indulgent. In fact the exact opposite is true. Read on to find 5 important reasons why it's actually selfish of us to NOT create:


  • Creative Writing Tips - How Many Creative Writing Projects Should I Work On At Once?
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] One of the common dilemmas of creative writers is how many projects to work on at once, so you can be at your most creative, focused and productive. So which is best, one creative writing project at a time or multiple projects? Read on to find the pros and cons of each approach and which is the best method for you:


  • Creative Writing- How To Be More Focused In 3 Easy Steps
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Getting focused is one of the biggest issues creative writers wrestle with. How focused would you say your creative writing output is? Focus is ultimately the difference between a creative writer who writes, and a creative writer who longs to write but never quite has the right set of conditions in place. Read on to discover how you can be the writer who writes, by getting more focused in YOUR creative writing in 3 easy steps-


  • Creative Writing - How To Get Focused And Stay Focused - The 5 Key Factors
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Focus is one of the top issues we struggle with as creative writers. In fact for anyone who's creative, trying to channel that creativity into one direction and producing one coherent end piece of work is one of the biggest challenges. So here are 5 key factors for getting focused - and more importantly STAYING focused - in your creative writing.


  • Creative Writer's Block - 5 Reasons Why Writer's Block Is Not A Terminal Condition
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] For many of us, suffering from writer's block at certain points in our writing careers feels as inevitable as the fact that the sun rises each morning and sets again each night. And that’s the biggest danger of writer's block. To help you overcome this, here are 5 compelling reasons why writer’s block is NOT a terminal condition, and there's plenty we can do to overcome it for good...


  • Creative Writing - Read This Only If You Don't Think You're A Creative Writer
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] So, you don't think you're a creative writer? But presumably you'd like to be? You have some desire, some ambition to write creatively, more than you do right now? Otherwise you wouldn't even be reading this. What we have then, is someone who wants to be a creative writer, but doubts they've got what it takes. So we're going to close the gap between where your thinking is, and where it needs to be for you to be that creative writer. In four simple steps. Read on to find out what they are...


  • Creative Writing - 7 Secrets Of Super Self-Confidence In Creative Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] When we feel confident in ourselves and in our ability to create, the world seems a different place. Everything flows more easily, we don't notice all the tiny details that could otherwise hold us back. We feel brave, bold, fearless, and stride forward, ever closer to reaching our full potential and the peak of our creativity. We all know how to be confident, deep down, and we’ve all had times where we've felt a strong belief and creative flow. But often we need a helping hand to get there. So here are 7 secrets of super self-confidence to boost your creative writing starting today:


  • Be More Creative - The 5 Most Important Questions You Can Ask Yourself To Increase Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Sometimes, the key to finding ways to be more creative and to help you increase your creativity is not about finding the right answers, the right techniques or the right secrets. Sometimes, it's about asking yourself the right questions. A seemingly simple question can bring about a major shift in thinking. So here are 5 powerful questions to give you a headstart in helping YOU increase your creativity:


  • Creating Deeply - 5 Compelling Reasons To Take The Plunge Today And Create More Deeply
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How deeply are you creating in your creative work? Do you mostly feel like your diving in the deepest, most wondrous oceans of your inner creativity? Or just splashing around in the familiar shallow flow of surface streams? Are you plunging down amongst dark uncharted waters with a strong determined stroke? Or barely treading water? Here are 5 compelling reasons to take a deep breath, dive in and create more deeply than you’ve ever created before:


  • Creative Writing - How Just 10 Minutes A Day Can Dramatically Improve Your Creative Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] To write creatively at our best, to write the deepest, truest, most rewarding work we're capable of, we must regularly workout and exercise our creative writing muscles. It doesn't mean you have to give up your whole life and write 12 hours a day. Though if that's what you really want, then great, go for it. In fact you can dramatically improve your creative writing beginning with investing just 10 minutes a day. Here's how to start, day by day, for your first 2 weeks:


  • Creative Writing: How Increasing Self Belief Can Improve Your Creative Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] As a creative writer, I’m sure you’re always keen to find new ways to enhance and improve your creative writing. There are two main ways this can be done. The first way is simply to practice writing in as many different creative ways as you can. The other way to improve your creative writing is less obvious. But in fact over the long term it’s the one that is most powerful. Read on to find out what it is and how you can use it to improve your creative writing to new levels...


  • Creative Writing - What's Stopping YOU From Being A Creative Writer?
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] So you want to be a creative writer. But however much on the surface you seem to want to be a creative writer, or rather RESUME being a creative writer again, something always seems to stop you. Even if we don't realise it, when we think we really want to be doing something, but we never get quite around to it, there's only one thing truly stopping us. So what is it? What's the name of this invisible box that still needs to be ticked after everything else has given is the green light? Read on to find out what it is, and how to overcome it...


  • Creative Writing Fears: What Happens When I Run Out Of Ideas For My Creative Writing?
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] A common fear of many creative writers is: what happens when I run out of ideas to explore in my creative writing? Whether it's ideas to keep an ongoing project like a novel or script moving forward and developing, or fresh ideas for completely new projects, the fear that we might not have enough inspiration in us to see them through can be very restrictive. So what CAN we do to prevent this kind of fear from crippling our creativity? It begins by changing our whole approach to "having ideas," and how we record and collect them. So to ensure YOU'RE never short of creative writing ideas whenever you need them, read on to discover a simple and highly effective 3 step plan...


  • Creative Writing- Believe In You! 9 Reasons Why You're Already A More Creative Writer Than You Think
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] The biggest single factor in determining how great and prolific a creative writer you become is not about talent and ability alone. In fact, because of this one factor, many incredibly gifted writers never write anywhere near their potential. This key factor is simply how good a creative writer YOU BELIEVE YOU ARE. So read on to discover 9 reasons why you’re ALREADY a better creative writer than you think:


  • Creative Renewal - 5 Ways To Breathe New Life Into Your Creative Work
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Whether you're a writer, painter, sculptor, designer, photographer or an artist in any other field of creativity, there are common traits and needs amongst us all. Something vital to us all is finding ways to renew our creative inspiration, as well as ways to renew ourselves, physically, mentally and emotionally. Here then, are 5 great Creative Renewal ideas, to help you regather your creative resources and breathe new life into your creative work:


  • Creativity Killers - How A Clown In Your Kitchen Kills Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] If you had a clown suddenly appear in your kitchen, you'd get quite a shock. If he was there every time you went back to kitchen though, for weeks on end, the impact would be drastically reduced. After a while, you'd barely notice him at all. Read on to find what this has to do with your creativity, and how you can begin to overcome a creativity killer you might not even have realised you had.


  • Creative Writing Tips - 7 Killer Tips To Boost Your Creative Writing Today
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] However accomplished and experienced you are in your creative writing, there's always more to learn and discover. There's no such thing as becoming the perfect creative writer. All of us can continue to learn, explore and experiment and give our creative writer more depth, impact and fulfilment, for us as the writer, and for our readers. So here are 7 killer tips to help you boost YOUR creative writing even more:


  • Creative Writing Exercises & Creative Writing Prompts - What They DON'T Give You And How To Get It
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Give a writer a creative writing exercise or prompt and they won't necessarily come up with some interesting creative writing. In fact many times, however ingenious, stimulating and brilliant the exercise is, the writer won't produce a single word, let alone a wonderful piece of writing. So why is this? What's missing? In this article we uncover 5 of the crucial elements a creative writing exercise or prompt on its own WON'T give you, and how you can go about getting them:


  • Creative Writing - How To Find & Maintain Your Unique Creative Writing Rhythm
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] One of the most important elements to being able to write regularly, deeply, and consistently as a creative writer is to be able to find your own unique creative writing rhythm. If we don't learn to tune in to the unique creative rhythm that each of us have, we'll find it a constant battle to remain motivated and productive in our creative writing projects. In this article we look at how to find when you’re out of sync with your natural creative rhythm, as well as the many different factors you can adjust to get back in it to enable your creative writing to reach new levels.


  • Creative Writing Prompts- How Prompts Can Juice Up Your Creative Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Creative writing prompts are a great way of enhancing your creative writing. They can stimulate new ways of seeing and thinking and help you grow your creative writing skills in directions you might not have thought possible. Read on to find out how they work, why we resist them, and how you can start using them to juice up your own creative writing...


  • Creative Writing - What Happened To The Fun? 5 Ways To Start Enjoying Your Creative Writing Again
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] One of the common motives why all of us who write creatively share is because it's fun and enjoyable. The problem is, when we go through more challenging and difficult times with our writing – those times when we find ourselves stuck, blocked, out of ideas - "fun" and "enjoyable" are some of the last words that come to mind to describe what we’re experiencing. So here are 5 of the most common reasons why we lose the sense of fun and enjoyment in our creative writing, and how to start to get them back.


  • Creative Writing Secrets- 7 Ways To Be A Better Creative Writer Today
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] summary - So you want to be a better creative writer? Every one of us has the ability to improve our creative writing output, both in quantity and quality. Read on to discover 7 great ways YOU can use right away to be a better creative writer:


  • Creative Writing- The 5 Key Elements To Prolific Creative Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Anyone can be a more prolific and more creative writer than they currently are. Much of what it takes to be accomplished and prolific in your creative writing can be learnt, practiced and developed. We can ALL improve our creative writing output in both quality and quantity if we pay attention to these 5 key elements-


  • Be More Creative-How Mapping Tiny Landmarks In Your Creative Journey Can Help You Be More Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] However creative or prolific we are, one thing that many creative people find difficult is to acknowledge and appreciate the great progress we make in our creative work. Why DO we find it so hard to recognise - and more crucially to VALUE – our own creative progress? Read on to find out more, and to discover a simple and powerful tool to help you turn this around.


  • Creativity & The Danger Of Blanket Beliefs - Which Ones Are Smothering YOUR Creativity?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] What is the one single thing that will hold back your creativity, even if you have the perfect environment, studio, equipment, support network, marketing, and finances in place to freely create and share with the world whatever your heart desires? The answer? Your belief system. Having "Blanket Beliefs" that aren't actually true can seriously smother your creativity. Read on to find out how to identify the beliefs that are holding your creativity back, maybe without you even knowing it -


  • Creative Writing- 5 Powerful Tips To Increase Your Self-Confidence In Creative Writing
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] It doesn't matter how talented you are as a writer, if you lack the confidence to write and to explore your writing potential you simply won’t create as well or as often as you’re capable of creating. Read on for 5 powerful tips to increase your creative writing self-confidence that you can start using TODAY...


  • Creative Writing- 3 Key Reasons Why You're Not Reaching Your Creative Writing Potential
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] A great number of us have creative writing talents far greater than we realize. But despite this, most of us simply aren't writing creatively anywhere near as well, as much, or as often as we could be. There are many reasons why we don’t reach our potential. Read on to discover 3 of the most common, and some top tips on how to overcome them:


  • Creative Writing - Are You Born A Creative Writer Or Can It Be Learnt?
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Is creative writing something we can learn and develop? Yes! But we don't suddenly reach new levels of creative writing in an instant. Read on to find out the crucial reason why, and discover two simple techniques you can use to begin increasing your creativity right away...


  • Creativity And Guilt - 5 Common Guilt Trips Of The Creative Soul And How To Overcome Them
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Guilt is one of the most powerful human emotions, one that can be incredibly destructive. Many of the reasons we're not more creative stem back to some form of guilt or other. Here are 5 of the most common "guilt trips" of the creative soul, and how to start to overcome them.


  • How To Be Creative & Be Happy – Letting Your Creativity Naturally Evolve
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] We each have deep within us the knowledge and the resources to build a life of happiness and creativity. We've tasted enough of being both creative and happy to know what we love and what we want more of, and what we don't like and need less of. Every one of us is unique in our creativity, so every one of us has a unique recipe for a creative and happy life. But there are some basic ingredients that are needed for everyone's recipe. In this article we're going to look in more depth at one of the most important: Letting our creativity naturally evolve.


  • How To Be Creative & Be Happy – The Importance Of Connecting With Others
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Although we sometimes feel far from happy or creative, we actually all have within us the resources we need to lead a life of creativity and happiness. We've experienced and glimpsed enough of both being creative and being happy to know what we love and want more of, and what we don’t love and need less of. Each of us are unique creative people, so we each have a different recipe for a creative and happy life. However, there are some basic ingredients common to everyone's recipe. In this article, we're going to focus on one of the most important: connecting with others.


  • How To Be Creative & Be Happy - Finding Creative Routines That Work
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] It may not feel like it sometimes, but deep within us we all know how to build a life of creativity and happiness. We've seen and tasted enough in the past to know what works for us and what helps us be creative and happy, and what doesn't work and we need to reduce or eliminate. Every one of us is unique in our creativity, so we each have a slightly different recipe for a creative happy life. However there are some basic ingredients that we all need for our recipe. Today we're going to look in more depth at one of the most important: finding creative routines that work.


  • How To Be Creative & Be Happy – Getting The Support You Need
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] We all have inside us all the resources and knowledge we'll ever need to lead a creative and happy life. We've seen and experienced creativity and happiness often enough to know what they are. We know what's good for us and what we'd like more of. And we know what isn't good for us and what we need to reduce. As we're each unique creative people, we each have a unique recipe for a creative and happy life. But there are some basic ingredients that are needed for everyone's recipe. Today we're going to focus on one of the most important: getting the support you need.


  • How To Be Creative & Be Happy – Being Recognised & Appreciated
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Inside us all, we have the knowledge and the resources for a life of creativity and happiness. We've had enough of a taste and glimpse of being both creative and happy to know what we love and want more of, and what we don't like and need less of. We're each unique in our creativity, and so we each have a different recipe for a creative and happy life. But there are some basic ingredients that are needed for everyone's recipe. In this article we're going to focus on one of the most important: being recognised and appreciated.


  • Creativity - The Truth About Your Creativity - Who DO You Create For?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Creativity has a thousand different guises and expressions. Indeed, each of us who create may have any number of different ways of creating and communicating with the world through our creative abilities and works. But how many of these are truly the things we WANT to create? How much of our creative energy is invested in those projects we burn with passion for and yearn to produce, the projects that when we’re in the midst of creating feel rewarding, exciting and fulfilling like nothing else?


  • How To Be Creative & Be Happy - 5 Essential Ingredients For A Happy Creative Life
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Deep down, we all know how to be happy. We have enough self awareness to know what feels good, what feels right. We know what type of creating makes us feel excited, stimulated, powerful, alive. The difficulty comes NOT in knowing just how delicious the recipe for our happy creative life can be. No, the hardest part is knowing which ingredients to use and what quantity of each we need. So to give you a little more clarity about YOUR own unique recipe for a happy and fruitful creative, here are 5 of the essential ingredients we ALL need:


  • Common Creative Blocks & How To Overcome Them - "I Never Finish Creative Projects, So Why Start?"
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] All of us who are creative know what it’s like to experience creative blocks. That feeling when however much you long to unleash your creativity, it seems about as easy as juggling hot custard. There are many different types of creative block, and each of them has its devious ways of trying to sabotage our creativity. Here’s one of the most common forms and some tips to overcome it:


  • Common Creative Blocks & How To Overcome Them - "I Always Mess Up My Creative Projects"
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] There are many different reasons why we don't create as much as we could. Trying to get focused and unleash your creativity sometimes feels about as easy as tap dancing in quicksand. The more you struggle, the deeper you seem to sink into a state of depression, frustration and non-action. Creative blocks come in many different guises, and each has its own particular ways of defeating our creative spirit and energy. Here's one of the most common forms of creative block and some tips to overcome it-


  • Common Creative Blocks & How To Overcome Them - "I Don't Know What To Create"
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Trying to unleash your creativity is often easier said than done. There are many times when creating ANYTHING feels like an upward struggle on the steepest mountain in the fiercest elements. The harder you try, the more stuck and blocked you feel. Soon you feel so disillusioned and demoralised, you give up creating altogether, rather than face another exhausting battle. Creative block appears in a number of different disguises, with a variety of reasons behind it. Here's one of the most common forms of creative block and some tips to overcome it:


  • Common Creative Blocks & How To Overcome Them - "My Work Isn't Good Enough"
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] All of us who create experience times when creating feels more difficult than others. However much you want to just let go and unleash your creativity, sometimes it feels like running through treacle with lead boots on. There are many different ways we experience creative block, and a variety of reasons behind them. Here's one of the most common forms of creative block and some tips to overcome it:


  • Common Creative Blocks & How To Overcome Them - "I Don't Know HOW To Create Anymore"
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Sometimes when we wish to create, it's not the lack of willingness that's the issue. However much you long to unleash your creativity, that fact is there are times it feels like the hardest thing in the world. Invisible blocks stop you dead in your tracks and you can't see a way to get going again. Here's one of the most common creative blocks and some tips on how you can identify and then overcome it:


  • Common Creative Blocks & How To Overcome Them- "I'm Scared To Create Something Different"
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Sometimes as a creative individual, however much you long to unleash your creativity, it feels near to impossible. The more you try, the more you feel as if some impenetrable barrier is in front of you and there's no way through, no hope and no solution. But there are solutions. Here's one of the most common types of creative block and some tips to overcome it:


  • Common Creative Blocks & How To Overcome Them - "I Have No Ideas"
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] However hard we try to be more creative, sometimes it feels like there's an invisible force field in front of us that holds us back from progress and we feel stuck, despondent and frustrated. There are many different types of creative block and a number of reasons behind them. Here's one of the most common forms of creative block and some tips to overcome it:


  • Unleash Your Creativity - 7 Common Creative Blocks & How To Overcome Them
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] As anyone creative knows, being able to unleash your creativity is often easier said than done. Being more creative would come more readily if it wasn't for the many different types of creative block we experience as artists and creative people. Here are 7 common creative blocks and how you can begin to recognise and overcome them...


  • Who's The True Creative You? 5 Questions To Help Unlock Your True Creative Self
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] All of us in our everyday lives have to play a number of different roles, and put on a variety of personas. Different parts of life require different abilities to come to the fore, and similarly, different people bring out different parts of our personalities. But, when you come home at the end of the day, and are able to remove all the various hats, relax and detach from the expectations of the various roles you play, who is it you're left with? Who's the true creative you? Here are 5 powerful questions to help you get closer to your true creative self


  • Unleash Your Creativity - How Creating A Little Each Day Can Help You Be More Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Creating a little each day is quite probably more powerful and fundamental to a highly enjoyable and rewarding creative life than any other. It's the key and the cornerstone to producing wonderful creative works over and over again, and growing and developing our creativity to new levels as we do. So here's how, in 5 simple steps, you can apply the technique effectively in your creative life:


  • Unleash Your Creativity - How Rewarding Your Creative Achievements Can Help You Be More Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Achievement] We nearly always find it easier to acknowledge and give praise to the creative achievements of other people, and stand in awe at what people accomplish in their creative lives. How many times have you found yourself thinking "Wow, I wish I could be as creative as they are...?" When it comes to our own creative achievements though, most of us suddenly developed an acute blindness to the bare reality. So here are two simple steps to rewarding our creative achievements, and therefore helping us increase our creativity:


  • Unleash Your Creativity - How Chunking Down Your Creative Projects Can Help You Be More Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Often, as creative people we're highly ambitious with our creative projects, and have ideas for vast far reaching work that'll change our world, and touch the lives of many others. This is all fantastic and gives us plenty to aim for. But then what usually happens right after is we expect to go from having the initial ideas to completing the project in a couple of days, a completely unrealistic timescale. The alternative is to "chunk down", break the project down into manageable chunks and approach them one at a time, building momentum as you go. Here's how this helps increase creativity and why-


  • Unleash Your Creativity - How Finding The Right Creative Environment Can Help You Be More Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Finding the right creative environment can help you be more creative. If we try to give ourselves fully to creating when all around is chaotic, noisy and distracting, we're not likely to produce much creative work that we're happy with or that highlights our creative potential. We're simply not giving ourselves a fair chance. So here are the two main types of creative environment that can help us, and how-


  • Unleash Your Creativity - How Getting Yourself A Cheerleader Can Help You Be More Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Creating can be a lonely process and it's all too easy to stuck in a tangle of our own thoughts and lose perspective and focus. Before we realise it, our minds can feel overloaded with a combination of negative doubts and inner criticisms, and about as organised as a plate of spaghetti Bolognese thrown against a wall. So something of great value is having someone to be your cheerleader. Your cheerleader in this sense is simply someone who will encourage and support you and your creative work. Here's how to pick a good one for you…


  • Unleash Your Creativity-7 Ways YOU Can Tap Into The Unstoppable Flow Of Your Inner Creativity Today
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How often in YOUR life do you truly unleash your creativity? How often do you feel that you're creating as naturally and fully as you're able, where ideas and action all flows easily and freely? It's very likely that you're not creating as often, or as fully, as you'd like to be. So here are 7 simple ways you use to can tap into your inner creativity today:


  • Unleash Your Creativity - How Giving Yourself Time To Learn Can Help You Be More Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Giving yourself time to learn and develop can help you be more creative. The only way we can truly learn, develop and evolve as creative artists, and as human beings, is through experience, through trying out something, seeing what works for us and what doesn't, then doing more of what does work, and less of what doesn't. It's OUR creative life, we can make a deal with ourselves when we start each new project as to how it’s going to be, and how we will approach it, so it's as fulfilling as possible. To make this easier, focus on these 3 key elements:


  • Unleash Your Creativity - How Listening To Yourself Can Help You Be More Creative
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Listening to yourself can help you be more creative. So what does this mean, listen to yourself? You may feel you've heard all you have to say to yourself about your creativity. Maybe you find most of it often comes out as pretty negative and unconstructive comments. But have you truly LISTENED to your creative self? Here's how to start today...


  • Permission To Create - Why The Gateway To Your Creative Dreams Is Always Locked
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you find in your creative life that you keep coming up against the same old stumbling blocks? Whatever your approach, time and time again you get so close to your creative dreams - and the creative life you truly want - before somehow falling short of the target? In fact, all that's stopping you from moving closer to your creative dreams can be summed up in a single word. Read on to find out more-


  • Writer's Block - A New Perspective To Help You Overcome Writer's Block
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Writer's block, or creative block to use a wider reaching term, is one of the most common issues with writers and other creative people. Creating in this frame of mind feels about as easy as if we were trying for the world 100m breast stroke record in a swimming pool of thick treacle. So changing our fixed perception of writer's block is a major step in feeling less fearful of it and experiencing it less often. Read on to find out more...


  • Creativity Is For Life Not Just For Workshops! 3 Top Tips
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Picture the scene. You've just returned from a weekend break away, a creative retreat. You've enjoyed the weekend immensely and come back feel more energised and in love with life and your creativity than you have done in years. After a few days (or even hours!) back in your normal world though, the events and impositions of daily life start to take grip on your creative work again, and the red hot spurt of motivation you experienced has become more of a lukewarm trickle. What happened? Why didn't the creativity and the energy last? Well, creativity is for life, not just for workshops. Here are 3 top tips how you CAN maintain that creative energy in your daily life, not just the occasional weekend:


  • Increase Creativity - How To Become A Creative Gardener& Nurture Your Creativity For A Full Harvest
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] As creative artists, there's much we can learn from our outdoor loving, horticulturally passionate colleagues Here are just a few tips on how you can become a better Creative Gardener and see your Creative Garden give an abundant crop season after season:


  • Creative Evolution - Letting Your Creativity Flow Naturally Without The Feeling Of "Selling Out"
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] It's natural and healthy as creative people to want to be on an upward spiral of our own personal creative evolution. When this spiral of creative evolution begins to change from simply steadily moving onwards and upwards, into wanting every creative project to be an exquisitely perfect work of unparalleled creative genius, that’s where the problems occur. How often have you felt that by not following the original plan for a creative project that in some way you’re selling out or letting yourself down?


  • Be More Creative - 7 Reasons Why Everything You Create, Perfect Or Not, Has A Valuable Purpose
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Trying to be absolutely perfect in every detail with everything we create is an easy habit to get into. The fact is, whoever we are, everything we create WON'T be perfect.


  • Unleash Your Creativity And YOU Can Change The World
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] As individuals, however creative we may be and however much we want to change the world around us for the better, it's easy to feel disheartened and powerless. "How can I alone make any difference, I'm only one person out of billions"? many of us regularly ask ourselves. Well, the greatest gift you can offer the world is your full true creative self. And you may be helping to change the world already in more ways than you realise-


  • Unleash Your Creativity - 3 Powerful Ways To Capture & Grow More Creative Ideas
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] The nurture of new creative ideas can be difficult. Once we get a few creative ideas recorded and growing, before we know it there's another and another, and soon we're overflowing with more ideas than we know what to do with. The more creative ideas we have, the more we seem to have, we've just got to get the cycle going. So here are 3 powerful ways for YOU to capture and grow an abundant flow of creative ideas:


  • Increase Creativity- Become A Highly Charged Creative Lightning Rod For New Ideas
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] If we are to be more creative, and have more creative ideas, we need to adopt some of the properties of a lightning conductor. We must find ways to attract ideas and let them flow to us and through us with as little resistance as possible. Here's a great way of putting this into action-


  • New Ways To Create - 5 Ideas To Help You Experiment, Liberate And Reach Beyond!
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Whatever medium we’re creating in, it can be easy and very productive to get into a strong flow, but also dangerously easy to get in a creative rut. Productivity, and finding the methods, environments and routines that work well for our creativity is one thing. But becoming a human photocopier and churning out almost identical pieces of creative work time and time again is something else entirely. Anyone who’s committed to progressing and evolving creatively must be prepared to experiment. So here are 5 quick ideas to give YOU new ways to create:


  • Increasing Your Creativity - What Would You REALLY Do With A 36 Hour Day?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] What would YOU do, if tomorrow a worldwide treaty agreed to change the number of hours in a day from 24 to 36? At first you might think: "Fantastic! That’s exactly what I need. More hours in the day will allow me to work more on my creative projects and increase my creativity. I'll now have time to fit in all the daily necessities, then have time left over to be more creative. What a great idea!" But what if you soon found that actually lack of time wasn't the main factor in stopping you from being more creative?


  • Creative Success: The Razor Thin Line Between Achieving And Not Achieving Your Creative Ambitions
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Creative Success is so much closer than you realise. In fact it's just one simple step away. It's on the other side of the same razor thin line that's the difference between success and failure, achieving and not achieving, in any other area of life. So what is this one single crucial element?


  • Being More Creative: What's YOUR Story About Why You Don't Create More?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Each of us also holds dear a special kind of story. Or more accurately, a collection of stories, our own little pocket anthology. These aren't stories based on our own past exploits, events that have actually happened and we can recollect. These are the stories we've carefully constructed and now carry around, about who we are and what we can achieve. So what's YOUR story about why you don't create more?


  • Creative Perfectionism Is A Killer Disease: Here's The Miracle Cure
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] What is the one single thing that more than anything else stops us from creating? The disease that kills creative projects dead, saps creative energy like a swamp full of starving leeches and can destroy a previously healthy and productive creative artist in hardly any time at all? Read on to find out what it is and how it can be cured...


  • Creative Perfection: 5 Reasons Why We Destroy Our Creativity By Trying To Achieve The Impossible
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Whoever you are, whatever your preferred creative field there's one absolutely, so-sure-you-can-bet-your-house-on-it, way of ensuring you wear your creative energy down to nothing, and pretty much completely destroy your current creative motivation, possibly for ever. Perfectionism Often, perfectionism isn't actually the reason we don't create at all, it's just a convenient label to mask other fears. So here are just some of the most common faces of perfectionism and some alternative ways of considering them.


  • Increase Creativity and Achieve Your Creative Goals: Putting Flesh On The Bones Of Hope
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] The bones of your creative life are the goals, aims and ambitions you have for your creative work and your creative development. Putting flesh on these bones is where you plan how you're going to get there. It involves simply breaking each creative goal on a timeline into clear steps. Read on to find out exactly how to apply this to your creative life...


  • Creativity Defaults: How Are You Unknowingly Limiting YOUR Creativity?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] What would you say if someone suggested to you that you were greatly limiting your creativity and creative output without realising it, every single time you come to create? Each time you settle down to create, are your creativity default settings - both internally and externally - set up to enable you to create as easily and freely as possible?


  • Increase Creativity: How To Achieve Your Creative Goals
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] By believing that fixed pre-conditions are necessary for our happiness, and then finding they never quite arrive when and how we expect them to, we set ourselves up for much frustration, procrastination, even anger, and can trigger off spirals of negative inner thoughts and criticism. Here's an alternative approach to finding, and then achieving, YOUR creative goals.


  • Creative Support: Are You "Reaching Out" But Not "Letting In"?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] As creative people, many times we may feel that unless we go it alone and create with any outside help or support from others, that somehow we’re not being "truly creative". If we allow any outside input or influence in, it may corrupt and tarnish our inspiration, flow or muse. Then even when we accept we do need support, there's a way to go before we actually allow people to give it, and further still until we let it have a positive effect on us-


  • Creativity Coaching: But Isn't That Just For Professional Artists?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] The main blockage many of us have when it comes to being creative is that we simply don't think that we are. And so, by not even considering that we are creative, and thinking that our creative work isn't valid and important - whether we write, weave, paint, knit, act, sculpt, cook, compose, sing or enjoy any number of other creative activities - we limit ourselves from receiving the recognition and nurturing our creativity deserves.


  • Increase Creativity With Visualisation: How Just 10 Minutes a Day Can Boost Your Creative Output
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Visualisation is a technique we can use to boost our creativity by playing in our heads powerful images of how we want to be, at our most creative, productive and happy. Read on to find out how...


  • Creativity And The Artist-Overcoming The Biggest Fear Of All
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] When we come to trying something new creatively, we all seem to experience any number of entangled fears and doubts around moving forward with the project, and can become quickly overwhelmed. But what if we realised that most of the time we don’t have a whole series of complicated and intertwined fears and doubts, that they can all be summed up as the same single fear? How much power would be taken from those fears, and how much easier would they be to overcome?


  • How To Be Creative - The Simple Technique Anyone Can Learn To Increase Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] EVERYONE, with the right guidance and encouragement, can go on to achieve new levels of creativity, whatever our past experience of creating. But how and where do we begin to be more creative? The answer, and the key to all creative works, is simpler than you may think-


  • Creative Health For Life: Why Short Term Crash Diets Don't Work!
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] As with new exercise and diet plans, most of us begin new creative projects with great enthusiasm and energy. But very soon, the motivation appears to evaporate and the momentum we began with feels too difficult to maintain. So what can we do? How can we maintain the impetus and momentum we gain from those first few days of a new project?


  • Overcome Creative Resistance: Conversations With Your Inner Fred
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Have you ever noticed when you've begun work on a creative project that you're hugely passionate about and has great importance and meaning to you, how the negative chatter in your head shifts up into overdrive? But here's the good news, there ARE ways to live with the often dominant presence of creative resistance and STILL create everything we wish to. Here's one powerful technique:


  • The Most Beautiful Shape: Letting Your Creative Work Find Its Most Natural Form
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Some of the most famous inventions and artworks in history came as a result of their creator trying to create one thing and discovering something completely different as a "happy accident." Yet still we often have such fixed ideas of what our creative work "SHOULD" be that we lose the ability to let it fulfil its own potential, and take its own beautiful natural shape, and end up frustrated and feeling like we’ve failed to fulfil our original aims...


  • Enjoying The Creative Process: The Tale of Two Culinary Perfectionists
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] My partner and I love cooking together. It's something that we both value and enjoy in our lives, from the choosing to the preparing, the cooking and finally the eating. But we didn't always appreciate it as we do now. Here’s what used to happen, and how it relates to how you enjoy YOUR creative processes-


  • Powerful Creativity Secrets: Background Static and Pink Monkeys
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] When we're in full flow with a creative project, we usually want all our creative ideas, energy and focus to be directed towards that particular project, every spare sentence, idea, image or note to perfectly fit right into our latest work. But in reality, it doesn't work like that. So how can we deal with this? How can we eliminate all the static, the surrounding interference we don't want to hear when we're focusing on one creative project?


  • Understanding Creative Resistance: Why Our Negative Thoughts Aren't Always What They Seem
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Statements of self-doubt like "Who do I think I am, I have no talent", and "I have nothing valuable to say" often clatter around our consciousness appear at first glance to be nothing other than entirely negative. But with a little deeper investigation we can see they may actually be motivated by a positive intention. Once we gain a better understanding of our resistance we're able to know better what we working with and begin to find ways we can accept its presence and still be creative.


  • New Ways to Free Your Creativity - The Experimental Sandbox
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] By creating a set of surroundings we find inspiring and comforting - a few metaphorical walls around us, edges that define a safe boundary for us, and familiar objects – rather than feel restricted, we actually feel able to be MORE free, and MORE experimental with our creativity...


  • Increase Creative Self-Belief: Overcoming The Danger Of Negative "Snap-Back"
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] When we do something new in our creative lives, something different and outside our normal state and range of behaviour, initially we may just go with it, experiencing a mixture of feelings of fear, trepidation, challenge and excitement. Pretty soon though, little by little, habit by habit, the doubts and negativity creep in and we begin to "snap-back" to old patterns of thoughts and feelings. So how can we break free from this limiting cycle of behaviour avoid reverting back to our previous safe levels each time we step out of our comfort zone and get closer to realising our full potential?


  • Increase Creativity: New Creative Wardrobe - Where Would YOU Start?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Sometimes we're so caught up in the routine of life, we overlook the actual individual parts our creativity is made up of, the various garments hanging in our creative wardrobe. We undervalue our favourite, best fitting and most flattering clothes - those unique powerful elements that allow us to be the creative individual we are. Also we underestimate the draining impact that negative elements - the dowdy, wrong sized, dust gathering garments - can have on our creativity over time. So if you had the chance to rebuild YOUR creative wardrobe from nothing, what would you want to put in first?


  • Creativity Secrets Revealed: The Best Place to Start Your Next Creative Project
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] When we consider where to begin on our new creative project, the sheer number of different possible decisions and options we’re faced with can halt us in our tracks. This kind of intense overwhelm has been the undoing of many a potentially great creative work. If only we knew the best place to start, we could get on with the creating and putting all our energy and effort into the project itself! So where IS the best place to begin? What's the secret of those who create rewarding, stimulating, meaningful projects time after time?


  • Creative Authenticity: What's Your Biggest "Project in the Closet"?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] All of us who create have "Projects in the Closet", the meaningful, powerful and potentially life changing work we secretly long to create but don’t for some fear or other. But what’s the cost of NOT working on these projects? How does it compromise our integrity as an artist to continue to deny and ignore these major works of great personal meaning? If we were to pass away without having even attempted to begin work on them, how would that fit within the image we have of ourselves been honest and truthful and leading a fulfilling creative life?


  • Increase Creativity: The Invisible Threads That Hold Together A Creative Life
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] What is a dressmaker without any thread? All they'll have is a collection of odd shaped pieces of material, unconnected and unwearable. So what are the equivalent "Invisible Threads" that hold together our creative lives and how do we make them as strong as we can, and as supportive of our creative work as possible?


  • Overcome Creative Block: When The Best Creative Work Is Not Just In The Words
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] When we get creatively stuck or blocked, as well as feeling unable to go forward with the work and the anxiety and fears that this creative paralysis can bring, what’s perhaps even more unsettling is how all we’ve created so far starts to seem a little less shiny and glowing. Just a day or two of feeling creatively blocked like this can change our perspective hugely and we begin doubting whether a single sentence in our novel, brushstroke on our canvas, or note in our composition are of any use at all! Sometimes though, the solution and the way through such creative blocks is not in the words, the brushstrokes or the notes...


  • Creative Immersion Sessions - The Joy of a Long Hot Soak
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] From time to time, it’s important totally immerse ourselves in a creative project without distraction, even for just an hour or two. Getting back in touch with what it feels like to be totally connected and in the flow of our creative energy, can rejuvenate us in a way that lasts long after the experience itself is over. Here’s how to make it as easy as possible.


  • Don't Debate, Just Create! How To Stop Hitting The Snooze Button in Your Creative Work
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] If we stop to analyse and debate whether the time and conditions are right to create, we can ALWAYS come up with a host of reasons NOT to create. Here's an alternative approach.


  • Creatively Run Down or Unwell? Call Your Creativity Doctor!
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Most of use when we feel unwell or out of sorts in some way, will seek some kind of medical help, traditionally from our local doctor or General Practitioner. But who do we turn to when our creativity feels sick or unwell? There’s no “Creativity Doctor” for us to make an appointment with. Or is there..?


  • Creatively Stuck? Try Sitting With The Silence
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] As creative people, the position of being stuck for ideas and direction is unavoidable, and one that we’re all faced with now and again, for however short a time it lasts. But if we can let go enough of the maelstrom of fears and ideas in our thoughts and truly listen to what the creative project is asking for, we’ll find the answer often leaps out and becomes quite obvious. Here’s how...


  • Sunshine and Showers? Why Your Creative Life Needn't be as Unpredictable as the Weather
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Stop for a moment and think about how you might describe your creativity right now if it was a type of weather. Would it be sunny clear blue skies? Scattered showers? Constantly murky cold and overcast? Blizzard conditions?! Whatever the current “weather conditions” in your creative life, they needn’t be permanent. We all have the ability to change how we react and the direction we’re heading in at any time.


  • Creativity in Crisis? 5 Gentle Ways to Get Your Creativity Flowing Again
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] All of us who create go through phases of feeling blocked, stuck or uninspired. If we don’t create for a while, whether it’s 10 hours or 10 years, it’s easy to soon get caught up in negative mental cycles and paralyse our creativity further. So here are 5 gentle steps to get your creativity flowing again:


  • Enjoying the Creative Journey: Are Your Dreams Already Around You?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Sometimes, we can have our sights so firmly set on our goals in the long term future that we overlook what we’re currently experiencing, and all the situations, opportunities and potential happiness that we’re actually right in the midst of. So think about your own creative life. What parts of your life right now actually are much better than you realise, or give yourself credit for achieving? How are your dreams already amongst you?


  • Increase Creativity With Simple Techniques: Creatively Stuck? Use the BoxBreaker!
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Being “Creatively Stuck” is a common issue for many of my Creativity Coaching clients, that feeling that you’ve tried everything possible to move yourself forward and make progress but still you remain in the same place. The next time you feel like this, try this simple “BoxBreaker” technique to get your creativity flowing again.


  • Increase Creativity With Simple Techniques: Positive Thought Blast
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] One of the most challenging aspects of maintaining a consistent creative output is to remain positive and to keep moving forward even in the face of creative resistance. Here’s a great technique that helps you to do this in less than 10 minutes a day.


  • Overcoming Creative Resistance: The Lesson of the Dragon Slayer
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Something all of us who are creative have in common is experiencing internal resistance to our creativity or creative flow. Time and time again we try to eliminate the dragons - those negative thoughts and doubts of resistance - from our minds, which usually results in much anguished and exhausting mental gymnastics and leaves us slumped defeated, and more often than not giving up on our creative efforts altogether. But, there is hope. You see we don’t have to try to be dragon slayers, there is another way...


  • Increase Creativity: By Developing The Curiosity Habit
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] As creative people, one of the simplest and most powerful things we can do to develop and maintain fulfilling creative lives is to develop positive habits. The “Curiosity Habit” is one of the most useful and productive habits we can acquire to increase and support our creativity. It adds to the breadth and depth of our understanding and experience, and the richness of our lives and our creative output. Here are just some of the ways the “Curiosity Habit” can be adapted and used most effectively -


  • Creative Support - How Supporting Others' Creativity Naturally Supports Our Own
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Often it’s during the periods when we don’t feel supported ourselves that we’re most sensitive to, and aware of, what's missing, and we’re able to provide this for others. Somehow our compassion and empathy is heightened and we give more spontaneously and willingly the type of support we crave ourselves. It's by reaching out and supporting others that we can quickly feel better ourselves. And by helping other people improve their lives for the good, we also feel good. It's a simple equation.


  • How Much Is Enough? Becoming At Peace With Our Creative Output
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Each of us who create strives to improve and to evolve, and we each also have a determined level, of both quality and quantity, that if we fall below, brings us frustration and discontent and triggers a cycle of negative thinking. To help us become more at ease with this issue of justifying our creativity, and to be gentler on ourselves as we create, remember these following tips:


  • Creative Day Jobs: 7 Key Reasons Why A Creative Day Job Can Be Great For YOUR Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Whatever your creative talents, and however much you nurture them, the chances are, like the majority of creative people, you’re not able to make a full time living through them. Here are 7 of the top reasons why a creative day job can, more than being a financial necessity, actually be fantastic for your creativity in a variety of different ways -


  • Supercharge Your Creativity: The 5 Power Questions to Ask Yourself
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Questions are one of the most powerful tools we have available to us. A great open-ended question can be the key to unlocking a whole undiscovered thread of ideas, reaching a fresh new insight on an old familiar issue, and understanding some part of ourselves and our creativity in a different way. Here are 5 "Power Questions" to ask yourself to illuminate the inner workings of your creativity, and as a result give you a new level of awareness and surge of motivation


  • When I Was A Child – How Creative Freedom of Childhood Can Help Us Increase Our Creativity Today
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] As creative adults, for many of us one of the most difficult aspects of creativity is allowing ourselves the freedom to experiment and to be pioneering in our own way as artists. So how can we break free from this stranglehold and begin to nurture once again that pure unhindered sense of creative adventure we ALL have at a young age? Try this exercise to get you started –


  • Running With Stones in Your Shoes – Little Irritations That Can Become BIG Drains On Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] In our creative lives, how many small and virtually unnoticeable irritations do we put up with? Those almost insignificant sources of negativity and discomfort that at best cause us to be slightly distracted from our creative work and at worst slowly but steadily drain our creative energy and confidence and have a severe impact on the quality of our creative work and life?


  • How to Make Yourself Happy
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] Sometimes we can get so caught up trying to be too clever, sophisticated or perfect, we forget the tiny details and moments that bring enjoyment to our lives. Use this technique to increase your pleasure and enjoyment at a moment’s notice, and naturally develop your ability to be happy.


  • Revealing Superman's Secret: Isn't It Time You Ended The Pain of Hiding YOUR True Creative Identity?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Many of us, for whom creativity and expressing ourselves creatively is highly important, for whatever reasons, don't talk about it openly. It's almost like our little secret, the part of ourselves that we desperately guard from the world. But how well does this actually serve us? Here are just some of the reasons why ending your own "Superman Syndrome" and coming out to the world as a creative person can be a very good thing for you...


  • Your Creativity Portfolio: How to Invest Wisely and See Your Creative Assets Flourish and Grow
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] If we want to be highly creative, and constantly draw from our sources of creativity, we need to invest in them wisely. Here are some of the ways we can do this and ensure our personal "Creativity Portfolio" remains healthy and flourishing -


  • I'm Not Sleeping I'm Creating! How Sometimes LESS Activity Equals MORE Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] How can we allow our creative ideas to develop gradually and naturally if our concepts of "work" are that it's supposed be highly stressful, productive, fast paced and demanding? Those kind of conditions are hardly conducive to great creativity, are they! One way we can start to overcome some of these contradictions is to practice techniques that appear to be low in energy, activity and intensity, but in fact are highly effective for our creativity.


  • Creative Heroes: Enrich Your Own Creativity by Learning From The Creative Heroes You Admire
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] All of us who are creative have heroes of some kind, those we look up to as giants in their field, and who’ve achieved the kind of creative feats we aspire to ourselves. Rather than just passively gaze at these creative idols of ours in admiration though, how can we learn from them in a way that will stimulate and enhance our own creativity?


  • Creative Individuality: Embracing, Celebrating and Enriching Your Creative Uniqueness
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Each of us as creative people have our own unique composition, made up of all the various inputs, influences and experiences we’ve had in our lives. This individuality is what makes us interesting and fascinating to others and to ourselves. It’s imperative that as creative people we nurture this originality as well as that of others. So here are some of the ways you can enrich and enhance your unique creative composition –


  • Creative Success: Defining Your Personal Vision For YOUR Creative Life
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] The pressure to "be a success" in all parts of our lives is possibly greater these days than in any time previously in human society. But how clear are you about what your own vision of success looks like for your creative life? And is this vision truly your own?


  • New Perspectives: Increasing Your Creativity and Imagination Using the Art of Reframing
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] As creative people, we can, ironically, at times be very un-creative in our ways of thinking. We may have certain ideas, habits or assumptions that are burned into our behaviours and we simply do without questioning whether there is a better way, or even if there is another way at all. Reframing is a way to look at situations, behaviours and motivations in different ways and finding new perspectives. Here are some of the ways you can use Reframing to enhance your own creative work -


  • Ditch That Negative Mental Baggage! How to Increase Your Creativity by Travelling Light
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] When you come to start a new creative project, do you mentally simply grab a small bag with a few recent thoughts, a handful of ideas, a dash of motivation and start with gusto? Or do you instead take years of mental processes, doubts and insecurities? Most if us do the latter. Here are some ways we can increase our creativity by learning to travel more lightly...


  • Increase Creativity: Understand the Little Words That Make The Biggest Difference to Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement: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!
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] 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
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] 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!)
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] 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?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] 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
    [Self-Improvement: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
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] 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
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] 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?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] 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
    [Self-Improvement: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!
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] 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
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] 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
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] 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!
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] 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
    [Self-Improvement: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
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] 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
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] 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!
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] 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
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] 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?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] 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
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] 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
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] 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!
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] 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?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] 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"?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] 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.

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