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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘creativity’
Problem? Use a solving circle!
Posted in guerilla tactics, inner marketing, Uncategorized, tagged article, Arts, creativity, Energy, family, Health, journal, Kids and Teens, marketing, Math, meditation, problem. solution, Recreations, therapy on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Desire
Posted in inner marketing, tagged creative, creativity, desire, marketing, sadness on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“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!
The Map is not the Territory
Posted in inner marketing, management, marketing, performance, tagged brain, Cognition, creative, creativity, map, marketing, Neuro-linguistic programming, territory, Wendell Johnson on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Your art and your ego
Posted in inner marketing, tagged art, creative, creativity, ego, identity, marketing on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“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 [...]
Gratitude: The Secret Behind Creativity
Posted in inner marketing, tagged conscious, consciousness, creative, creativity, gratitude, inner marketing, marketing, misery on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Marketing Meditations
Posted in inner marketing, tagged creativity, dance, marketing, meditation, music on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“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 [...]
Creative Notions: Use your noggin…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged creative notions, creativity, marketing, mindfulness, notions on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]




