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The Monkey With The Wooden Apples There once was a happy monkey wandering the jungle, eating delicious fruit when hungry, and resting when tired. One day he came upon a house, where he saw a bowl of the most beautiful apples. He took one in each hand and ran back into the forest. He sniffed [...]

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Image by AlpenaMi via Flickr A recent family therapy journal article I was reading suggested using a “solving circle” to help families get unstuck. I won’t go into all the specifics of this as this blog is about creativity (although many families could use a shot of creative energy). The premise of the solving circle [...]

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“Never let go of the fiery sadness called: desire.” (Matsuo Basho) What does “desire” mean to you? How does it interplay with creativity and your marketing efforts? Can you have one with out the other? Does one destroy or overshadow the other? Share your thoughts and reflections by clicking the speak link below… Tweet this!

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The mind ‘get things’ very very easily. It is made very dumb by senseless repetition of facts. One has to teach at different levels all the time and never repeat oneself in exactly the same way. Social peer pressure comes into play (herd pressure) whenever [creativity] wants to express itself. In what ways have you [...]

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Image via Wikipedia I saw this expression of the “map is not the territory” in some online article, the origin of which I can’t remember but it stuck in my mind for several hours anyway. It is a term was originally put in print by Alfred Korzybski at a meeting of the American Mathematical Society [...]

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“Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.” – Konstantin Stanislavsky I see too many artists identify themselves by what they produce. I know the feeling well. If you produce crap, you feel like crap. You believe the lie that you can’t be a real artist if what you produce isn’t perfect. This [...]

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Was someone rude to you today? If so, it can really rob you of your joy and turn your creative energies off. This is because they are drained into negative feelings of anger and resentment. I was doing a little googling on “gratitude” and come up with a dozen different sites all sporting the same [...]

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“We could say that meditation doesn’t have a reason or doesn’t have a purpose. In this respect it’s unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don’t do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that [...]

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People seem to have the misconception that only a select few are able to unleash a steady flow of creative genius. That is not true at all. The fact is, creativity is very much like a muscle that needs to be exercised in order to consistently give out great results. If you don’t practice harnessing [...]

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Image by ocean.flynn via Flickr Article writing and submitting them to article directories is a great way to promote yourself and your blog/site. Writing an article doesn’t just mean putting down thoughts into words then typing and writing it. You have to capture the interest of your readers and get them to keep on reading. To [...]

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