{"id":1273,"date":"2011-02-09T17:03:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T06:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2011-06-14T15:01:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T05:01:18","slug":"getting-creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/02\/getting-creative\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting creative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you consider yourself to be creative? Do you take any steps to inspire or nurture your creativity?<\/p>\n<p>I must admit I haven&#8217;t thought about creativity for a while, but was recently inspired to think about it by Michelle Grice&#8217;s <a title=\"Inspiration in unlikely places\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomwomen.com.au\/entry.php?16-Inspiration-in-unlikely-places\" target=\"_blank\">post about musical inspiration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I believe creativity is important to help us solve issues and stay interested, and it doesn&#8217;t have to be creative in any specific way. Many people say &#8220;I can&#8217;t draw\/paint\/sew\/sculpt so I&#8217;m not creative&#8221; but I disagree with that as a narrow view of creativity.<\/p>\n<p>The people who thought of liquid paper, sticky notepads and tea bags were all creative &#8211; and for all we know they couldn&#8217;t draw, sew or sing either!<\/p>\n<p>Developing creativity is fun, and it can help you see things in a different way, find solutions to challenges and grab new opportunities. I think doing anything out of the ordinary and basically avoiding being in a rut will develop creativity, but here are some more specific ideas to get you (and me!)\u00a0started:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>move to some energetic music &#8211; don&#8217;t call it dancing if that will limit you, just move!<\/li>\n<li>grab a pencil and draw your favourite holiday &#8211; interpret that in any way you like!<\/li>\n<li>do some mind teasers &#8211; pictures hidden in a see of dots, conundrums, riddles, and so on<\/li>\n<li>think of a different ending for the last movie you saw or book you read<\/li>\n<li>spend\u00a0 5 minutes looking at some artwork online &#8211; look at the colours, think about your responses, follow your instincts<\/li>\n<li>think of how to make your Christmas break up suit a theme &#8211; maybe Knights &amp; Damsels, The Jungle, Fairies &amp; Elves or Hollywood inspires you with decorations, costumes, menus and more. It never has to be done, just imagine it<\/li>\n<li>let your mind follow some music without focussing on any lyrics<\/li>\n<li>imagine you just won $5million &#8211; what would you spend it on? where would you go? how would you resign\/leave your clients?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What other ideas do you have for getting creative?<\/p>\n<p>And for today&#8217;s brain teaser&#8230; if four men take two hours to dig a hole, how long will it take eight men to dig half a hole?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you consider yourself to be creative? Do you take any steps to inspire or nurture your creativity? I must admit I haven&#8217;t thought about creativity for a while, but was recently inspired to think about it by Michelle Grice&#8217;s post about musical inspiration. I believe creativity is important to help us solve issues and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[1157,444,1159,1158,1160],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-creative","tag-ideas","tag-imagine","tag-rut","tag-solve"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}