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- Concepts for Wedding Invitation Design: Some Tips - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2007 from Jerry LeungNowadays couples tend to search for really unique wedding invitations. There are also a number of wedding invitation designers who provide this service. Yet a couple may want to have their own idea and concept for designing the wedding invitation. A question follows this notion will be ¡§Is ...
Views: 3096 - Mind Fitness: Improving creative thinking and problem solving - by Nimble. Flexible. Strong. Agile. Quick. Words that could be describing virtually any muscle in your body, right? How about the muscle between your ears?
Did you know there¡¯s a way to keep your brain fit the same way you keep the rest of your body fit? As a creative thinking coach I have ...
Views: 1362 - Go Fly a Kite - by Done anything fun, lately? The past few days I’ve been walking around in a stressed daze: busy, busy, busy. Sound familiar? I’d been struggling a little with a segment of a personal coach training I’m developing. As I was throwing ideas back and forth, I heard my daughter’s laugh outside. It was ...
Views: 837 - Learn to Sew: The Effects of Cheap Thread - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2007 from Kristi BorchardtI am all about saving money when I can. There are so many ways to save money when sewing: from making your own patterns, to shopping sales for your fabric, notions, and patterns. When we first started sewing I would hear people talk about the differences in threads, only to go to the store ...
Views: 891 - Teaching Children to Sew: Portfolios - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2007 from Kristi BorchardtAs your child starts learning to sew, take the time to make these two Sewing Notebooks. Your child will be inspired and encouraged by them, and you will find one of them priceless! Your Assignment: 1. Let your child choose 2 special 3 ring binders. Buy the kind with a clear pocket on the ...
Views: 1701 - Ten Steps To Release Your Creative Spirit - by Everybody has an inbuilt ‘blueprint’ for creativity.
Inspired by creative thinkers from the past and present, and by their own success whilst coaching and training creativity across the board (from grandmothers to management consultants) NLP trainers, Alice and Caroline, have developed ...
Views: 1478 - The Why's in the Road. By Michael levy c July 2000 - by Each day in our lives there are decisions to be made. Most are small but nevertheless can have significant impact on our happiness. We amble along and make the most of each situation we face as the result of our actions. But there will come a time when we come to a BIG fork in the road. A big Y. ...
Views: 871 - A Sense Of Humor Increases Creativity - by Submitted on Jun 08, 2007 from Steve GillmanDoes a sense of humor make for a more creative mind? Perhaps. There are certainly many creative and intelligent people who also like to have a good laugh. Consider the following two examples. American physicist Richard Feynman was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, for his ...
Views: 959 - Teaching Children to Sew: Which Sewing Machine To Use - by Submitted on Jun 07, 2007 from Kristi BorchardtEven if your child is 3 years old, the only question you must ask yourself to determine if a person is ready to learn to sew is: Will they obey the MOST important rule in sewing? What is this rule? - Keep your fingers out from under the needle!!!!! When our daughter was 3, I knew that she ...
Views: 1407 - 10 Ways To Create Simple Pleasures - by Would you like more pleasure in your life? It's easy; make minor adjustments to what you currently do. The following are 10 ways to do just that.
1. If a child offers you a gift, no matter what it is, gladly accept it.
2. Pay the bridge toll for the car behind you.
3. Go to the park or ...
Views: 838 - Whatever You Want, You Can Have - by When you are aligned with the invincible forces of Natural Law, desired goals materialize extremely quickly. But if you have contradictory desire streams - desires for two opposing things at the same time - it becomes much more difficult for Nature to fulfill your desires.
Whatever you want, ...
Views: 1394 - Imagining Vs. Daydreaming - by Submitted on May 31, 2007 from Tony MichalskiWhen reading THE MASTER KEY SYSTEM by Charles F. Haanel (http://www.thefreemasterkey.com), a question is frequently asked: What is the difference betwixt using your imagination and daydreaming? As with most things, the difference is very subtle but it is the minute that differentiates between ...
Views: 4378 - The Folly of Problem Solving - by Hello, my name is Tom. In this short article I want to convince you that a strategy for getting nice surprises is more realistic than a strategy leading to a predictable outcome.
We are already familiar with strategies of predictability and have called them science, technology and logic. These ...
Views: 860 - Identity and Creating - by Submitted on May 22, 2007 from Douglas EbyEngaging in a creative venture often brings up questions and uncertainties related to personal identity: Am I qualified? Do I have enough experience, strength, talent, skill? Will the work be good enough? Will I be good enough? Creative expression is based on both our inner selves and our ...
Views: 1096 - Teaching Children to Sew: Your Sewing Space - by Submitted on May 19, 2007 from Kristi BorchardtWHERE? Although we would all love to have our own sewing /craft room, most of us have to find a small corner in the house where we can sew. Through experience I have learned, that if you want to learn something, or more importantly you want your kids to learn something, the source needs to be ...
Views: 854 - Co-Creation - by It occurred to me as I was driving up the highway to buy berries at a local farm that all creation is co-creation. I’d been musing about the difference between times of ease and forward momentum and times of struggle. At the risk of oversimplifying things (and keeping this week’s quotes firmly ...
Views: 862 - Natural Singing and Speaking - by Submitted on May 16, 2007 from claude steinEvery human being is born with the capacity to sing, and sing well in a way that frees our soul. Yet most of us don’t take advantage of the profound musical/healing instrument we are born with. Some of us believe we are ‘tone-deaf’ — a self-fulfilling prophesy, some ...
Views: 1216 - Learn to Sew: Benefits from Sewing - by Submitted on May 15, 2007 from Kristi BorchardtAs I continue to sew with my girls I am made aware of the benefits that can only come from working with your hands; from learning to take flat pieces of material and work with them until they come together to make a 3-dimensional object that not only has purpose but is full of love and ...
Views: 2115 - Aboard the African Star - by Submitted on May 14, 2007 from Yolanda CardenAfter working on the book for more than a decade, Haley was stuck -- and desperate I just love to get out in the ocean. You are really out there, thinking in ways you haven't thought before. The best writing I ever possibly could do was after The Digest helped me go to Africa and Europe, and I ...
Views: 1098 - An Exponential Idea In Giving - by Here's an exponential idea for our time. What if, each time someone did a good deed for someone else, the good deed was paid back by paying it forward to three additional people? In turn, each day, each person, having received a good deed, did a good deed for three more people.
According to ...
Views: 1365 - Fear and creativity - by In an issue of his Creativity Newsletter, Eric Maisel , PhD, wrote: "Only a small percentage of creative people work as often or as deeply as, by all rights, they might be expected to work. What stops them? Anxiety or some face of anxiety like doubt, worry, or fear. Anxiety is the great silencer ...
Views: 893 - Learn to Sew: Choosing and Preparing Fabrics - by Submitted on May 01, 2007 from Kristi BorchardtYou will read or have many people tell you to stick with cotton or cotton polyester blends for your beginning projects. I do agree that these are some of the easiest fabrics to work with. However, my girls thankfully removed my fear of working with other materials. When I first started ...
Views: 1283 - Birthday Journals - by Last year, as I turned 50, (FIVE-OOOH!!!), I decided to give myself a birthday party. Part of the party was to have a birthday journal. (I used my book The 5 Year Journal for two reasons -- #1. I had a lot of copies, and #2. The 5 Year Journal is dated) I asked my friends to pick a date telling ...
Views: 1093 - Supercharging Your Business through Creativity - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2007 from Kam YewSUPERCHARGING YOUR BUSINESS THROUGH CREATIVITY By Yew Kam Keong, Ph.D (Dr.YKK) Chief Mind Unzipper E-mail: drykk@mindbloom.net or yewkk@yahoo.com, Website: www.mindbloom.net Introduction One of the greatest obstacle to success in business is past successes. Successful businesses tend to bask ...
Views: 2128 - Create Creativity - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2007 from Michelle MorovatyDear Loved Ones, Great day to you all as you give yourself one Big Giant Hug Right Here, Right Now. I love you. I love you. I love you. Please take a few moments to bring your attention to the planet with love and light. Thank you so kindly. For we are all one. Tools for life. Create ...
Views: 753 - Creativity and Flow - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2007 from Douglas EbyThe experience of optimal functioning called flow enhances creativity, and can be nurtured in our own lives, says the psychologist who developed the concept. Author of "Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience" and a number of related books, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced me-high ...
Views: 1487 - Working 80 Hours a Week--and Not Complaining - by Working Eighty Hours a Week—and Not Complaining!
To remain competitive, every employee needs to put in a good 100 hours a week working on assigned goals. That's impossible, you say. There's no way your staff will accept anywhere near that workload. And with budgets so tight, you can't afford ...
Views: 1445 - The Seven Areas of a Balanced Life - by I want to change for the better. I want you to change for the better. You and I are both on the path of greater awareness of our life’s purpose. We are changing for the better. I want to change and grow, but at the same time I want to feel balanced. When I am balanced I am balanced in work and ...
Views: 2465 - THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.EINSTEIN MUST BE TURNING IN HIS GRAVE - by Is there anything new under the sun? Those of us in the spiritual quest know that there isn't. Indeed, we are learning by repetition to remember what we forgot: we are all part of something beyond words, unlimited, indivisible and instantaneous.
Plato wrote, " there is no such thing as ...
Views: 1065 - EUREKA! SCIENTISTS BREAK SPEED OF LIGHT - by Is there anything new under the sun? Those of us in the spiritual quest know that there isn't. Indeed, we are learning by repetition to remember what we forgot: we are all part of something beyond words, unlimited, indivisible and instantaneous.
Plato wrote, " there is no such thing as ...
Views: 1215 - AND HAVE A GOOD LIFE! - by "...And have a good life!"
By
Odete Martins Bigote
ATTACK ON AMERICA?
Our life experiences have taught us that we are all born with an ego. Fear, hate, anger, guilt, separation, false love are some of the components of our ego thought system.
Does the ego have a purpose? The answer is, of ...
Views: 901 - Be More Creative: Personalizing the Creative Process - by I've always had a fascination with creativity. I think I inherited a creative bent from my mother who is an amateur thespian and calligraphist. I'm also a believer that creative pursuits can help prevent professional burnout. My twenty-five years of "survival" in managing public health programs ...
Views: 1728 - GET WHAT YOU WANT! - by I've probably learned as much from my kids as I've taught them--maybe more. I learned this particular lesson from my oldest son, Mike.
The year was 1994. Mike was in the Marine Corp and home on a short leave. I was in the throws of buying my first "real" computer. I'd been using personal ...
Views: 894 - Creativity and the Inner Child - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2007 from Jane RowanGetting in touch with your inner child is a process. There are both terrible and wonderful things that the child needs to tell us about childhood feelings. Much of what the child needs to tell us is buried in the unconscious. We were scolded or told to “forget it!” Our needs and ...
Views: 1621 - Creative Coping in a Tragedy - by How do we creatively cope with a tragedy of the magnitude of yesterday's terrorist attacks on the United States of America?
I know that my family and I live a very sheltered life here in the Missouri Ozarks. We know that there is a great deal of violence in the homes of many who live here in ...
Views: 952 - The Five Elementss of Creation - by Submitted on Apr 07, 2007 from Paul KeetchIf you're anything like me, the creative process can be at times the most gratifying experience imaginable. Everything comes together in a flurry of creative activity, you enter a "Flow" state where time seems to stand still and nothing else but what you're working on exists in that moment of ...
Views: 864 - Teaching Children How to Sew - by Submitted on Apr 05, 2007 from Kristi BorchardtIn the "9 Secrets to Successfully Teach Your Child to Sew", I discussed knowing your child's personality. The 4 questions were: 1. Is your child a perfectionist? 2. Do they get frustrated easily? 3. Do they like following specific directions, or do they like to invent things on their own? 4. ...
Views: 2951 - Diabetes Diet Plan – The Good The Bad and The Ugly - by Submitted on Mar 30, 2007 from aron walladDon’t you just love snuggling up with a bag of potato chips as you catch some television? Watch a movie with someone you love as you pursue a bowl of ice cream. How about a huge sandwich, or a couple burgers and some French fries for lunch. While you may have liked these foods you have just ...
Views: 4148 - Great Ways to Crush Creativity - by Submitted on Mar 30, 2007 from Paul SloaneTen great ways to crush creativity by Paul Sloane Managers and leaders have much more power than they realize. They can patiently create a climate of creativity or they can crush it in a series of subtle comments and gestures. Their actions send powerful signals. Their responses to ...
Views: 1181 - Unleash your Inner Genius - by Submitted on Mar 20, 2007 from Paul SloaneTen Great Ways to boost your Personal Creativity Let’s say you are wrestling with a tough issue – maybe at work, at home, with your children or in your social life. You have been stuck for a while and you can’t seem to make a breakthrough. You want to come up with some really creative ideas. ...
Views: 1260 - Creativity - Getting the Juices Flowing - by Submitted on Mar 14, 2007 from Maurice TurmelWhen you reach inside yourself, what do you find? A storehouse of creativity that’s what. “Is that so?” you say. "Well, my creativity has gone AWOL, I can’t find it anywhere. I’m lost without it. What do I do?" I hear you. It’s a hard road to travel, getting ...
Views: 1300 - Imagination: The Key to Dream Fulfillment and Creative Expression - by Submitted on Feb 18, 2007 from William G Jr CovingtonImagination is the foundation upon which breakthroughs that improve life's quality are made. Just one thought, if pursued and realized can have substantial positive outcomes. Writing in the early 1900s, French psychologist Theodule Ribot noted that the inventive process comes from desire, which ...
Views: 1217 - Starting and Keeping Your Own Private Journal - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2007 from Chrissee LacomisThe Journal is your private place to express all your inner thoughts and feelings. Begin to understand yourself through writing. You can then move closer to knowing who you are and who you want to be in life. Your feelings, your breakthroughs, your desires record them all here. Discover ...
Views: 1256 - Creative Ideas for Small and Medium Business Public Relations - by Submitted on Jan 12, 2007 from Amir ElionMany Small and Medium businesses (SMB's) struggle for a piece of the action in very competitive markets. They find it difficult to spend great amounts of money on advertising, yet fear being left behind if they don't. Public Relations can be a cheap or even free alternative to regular marketing ...
Views: 3609 - Write what you already know: 7 tips for effective writing. - by I’ve gotten a few tips on writing from articles I’ve read on the subject — which I won’t repeat here.
The operative word here is a few. Most articles give you grammar tips or tell you about writing in the active voice to engage your reader — useful tips for sure, but they don’t tell you much ...
Views: 1096 - Awareness Through Creativity - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2006 from Emelisa MudleCreative self-exploration is an amazingly insightful experience, which can help you get in touch with your subconscious and bring clarity into feelings and thoughts that may be holding you back. Many people walk into my painting workshops wondering what they are getting themselves into. Yet ...
Views: 872 - Creativity is a Round Process - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2006 from Lorraine BallIn a world of fast change and fierce competition, the ability to find new and innovative solutions is necessary for your survival. Thinking power and creativity are your primary competitive advantages. Unlocking new ideas, and multiple possibilities begins with a "Round Process". Research To ...
Views: 946 - English Writing Made Easy - by Submitted on Sep 27, 2006 from Ronald DohertyEnglish is the dominant Internet and business language so making cash online (or offline) often involves English writing. More importantly perhaps, is the fact that everyday, but life-changing documents, resumes job applications, essays, term papers, business plans, loan and rental applications, ...
Views: 2142 - How My Many Hats Fuel My Creativity - by Submitted on Sep 03, 2006 from Linda DessauMargaret Lobenstine would call me a Renaissance Soul. Chris King would refer to my "portfolio career". I usually just use the expression that I wear many different hats – throughout each day and throughout my life. I love this life and wouldn't have it any other way and yet sometimes it wears ...
Views: 1206 - Creativity - Let Go and Let it Flow! - by Submitted on Sep 08, 2009 from Becky WatersCreativity – the ability to make, cause to be, become or bring into existence. We all have this ability. It’s not just for writers, artists, musicians and other “creative types.” It doesn’t happen only when you write a poem or paint a picture. Creativity happens anytime you combine ideas in a ...
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