How To Boost Your Creative Abilities

Creativity and innovation are two important ingredients that contribute to the success of modern entrepreneurs. These help you create new insights, fresh ideas, and enhanced solutions to old problems. Here are a few tips on how to improve your creative abilities:

I. Think Like a Child

There are not limits to a child's imagination. As we age, we become less creative because we let rationality and logic stop our minds from traveling far away. Their lack of inhibitions allows them to come up with brighter ideas, crazier solutions, and more enjoyable stories. Trying to act like children is not being negatively childish and immature - it is only allowing your brain to push itself beyond its imaginative limits.

II. See Things with Brand New Eyes

Every time you are presented with an old scene, routine, hobby, or activity, pretend to experience it for the first time. Zen practitioners explain this as seeing things with brand new eyes. It allows you to become open to new angles, sights, and experiences that you have not noticed before.  

III. Get Out off the Couch

Throw away lazy habits and say goodbye to your career as a couch potato. Laziness freezes your thoughts and leads you into being stuck to the same old paradigms and patterns of thinking. It prohibits you from exploring possibilities.

Read: The Mind Map Book: Unlock Your Creativity, Boost Your Memory, Change Your Life 

IV. Sweat It Out

Exercise - it does more than giving you a supermodel body, it can also boost your creativeness. Research suggest that at least 30 minutes of physical activity a day can help a person produce more innovative thoughts. It can also release endorphins or "happy hormones". Endorphins are known to create lighter and more positive moods. According to psychologists, people come up with the most creative thoughts ever time their positive emotions are running high. 

V. Get Some Rest

Plenty of studies have proven that naps and quick breaks between work tasks can help recharge the brain. An overly stressed mind can no longer have the capacity to develop new insights and solutions. Resting replenishes the mind and makes neurons work more efficiently. 

VI. Dare to Fail

Do not be afraid of failure or making mistakes. Desiring to be perfect and becoming preoccupied about what others might think can paralyze your capacity for idea generation. 

VII. Open Yourself to Creative Pursuits

Just because you work in a corporate environment, it does not mean that you have to limit yourself to activities involved in your field. Open yourself to other activities such as dance, art, music, and sports. This widens your perspectives and provides you with new sources of inspiration.


Following these creative thinking techniques can definitely make you a better innovator. As the world becomes more competitive, it is important to develop ideas and solutions that stand out. This can definitely help you strengthen your enterprise and achieve promising success.

Today Is A New Day -- Anything Is Possible

You wake up; it's a new dawn, a new day, and yet somehow it doesn't feel much different than the day before. It's like today has yesterday written all over it.

Not only is it the same routine as the day before with perhaps a few variances here and there, but the feelings of yesterday may have also carried forward into this pristine day.

It's tough sometimes not to get caught up in mindsets of "woe is me", or worrying, or feeling stressed, or stuck in the mundanes or busyness of the prior day(s) and transfer those feelings into the next.

Echoes of yesterday(s) may not sound too exciting or inviting when you look to tomorrow.

So; how do you leave yesterday behind and start fresh today?

How do you break the negative thinking and feelings?

How do you look forward to each new day as if anything is possible?

You can start before you go to bed by setting your intention of what, or how, you would like things to be tomorrow and then putting them into action.

Either at night or in the morning take out a blank piece of paper and let your imagination soar and show you how your day could be.

Write about it, or jot down some inspirational word or draw or put pictures on your paper of what you can focus on. Look at it throughout the day and remind yourself of how you would like things to be and make steps towards making it so.

When you rise, you can ask God, (whatever you believe this to be) to lead the way today and to show you how you can be of the greatest service and to see the possibilities, not the problems at hand.

Become aware of when you are slipping into the pessimism and remember there is another option, enthusiasm. The more enthusiastic and resourceful you are, the likelihood for better outcomes increases.

Read: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Try different things during the day - a new way to work, listening to music or going for a walk to clear the cob-webs in your thinking, changing the way you do and view things, etc.

Be more conscious of "how" you are doing things throughout the day. Notice what your thoughts are and how you are handling what you want to accomplish.

Tackle one thing at a time the best you can rather than a whole lot of things done in a mediocre way.

Slow down and don't rush through your day; enjoy it as much as possible. Take a break now and then and re-group, re-organize, and re-new.

Be grateful for the day - the people in it, your job, your home, your car, your clothes, the food you eat, the money you have, the beauty surrounding you, and the fact that you have this day.

Be hopeful. If you don't like today as it is, see if there are ways you can change it. Take a look at your thoughts as they are usually a good indicator of why your day is continuing the way it is.

You have to catch those discouraging and downbeat thoughts as soon as you can and re-write them, literally or in your minds-eye.

It's good to allow your feelings to surface but then it's up to you how you are going to turn things around and become positive and pro-active again.

What are your options? How can you improve things?

The greatest gift you can receive from a new day is that you have one, even as bleak as it may seem some days.

Let yesterday be yesterday and tomorrow be tomorrow. Embrace today in every way you can.

Look to what's bothering about today and make use of it by inspiring you to be and do things in a better way.

Remember, today is a new day and anything is possible! It's up to you.

If you use these techniques with insight, you will be assisted in not transferring yesterdays to today.