Mildew and Mustard

Mildew thoughtfully squeezed a blob of toothpaste. He brushed his teeth hard, before noticing it tasted a bit funny. He didn't have time to wonder how Mustard had managed to squeeze chili seeds into his tube of toothpaste. His mum found him downstairs with his tongue stuck to the inside of the freezer. His eyes were wild, cross-eyed and popping.

Running With Stones in Your Shoes – Little Irritations That Can Become BIG Drains On Your Creativity

In our creative lives, how many small and virtually unnoticeable irritations do we put up with? Those almost insignificant sources of negativity and discomfort that at best cause us to be slightly distracted from our creative work and at worst slowly but steadily drain our creative energy and confidence and have a severe impact on the quality of our creative work and life?

Breaking Through to Your Personal Genius

The creative mind works in what may be seen as mysterious ways. First of all, how it works doesn’t make any sense, rationally. The best creative ideas seldom happen when you are trying to create them.

Open to Anything

When we're attached to certainty and sameness we feel unsettled when we don't have them. It's easy to forget that if we would just stop and tune our attention inwards, we can find the most certain path to wisdom there is.

How Children Learn And What You Can Do To Help Them

“What? How many of you have climbed into a cardboard box and pushed yourself off at the top of the stairs.” Alarmingly 90% of the hands in the class go up. “Are you serious?” 30 nodding heads.

Tap Your Creative Potential

Deep within each of us lies a great wealth of creative potential, and I believe tapping into this potential is the best way to solve the challenges that we encounter in our lives.

Creative Day Jobs: How to Support Yourself While Pursuing Your Creativity

How do we manage to develop and explore our own creativity whilst also putting food on the table? Maybe the best way to support ourselves, creatively and financially, is not as obvious as we first think...

The World Within You

This is a short story about a scientist who taps into his interapersonal intelligence to find a scientific breakthrough. There are also tips about how YOU can tap into your own intrapersonal intelligence for success in life and business!

Curse of the Creatives

You compare yourself to others who accomplish several things, but you’re stalemated because juggling too many things doesn’t work for you. Choosing either of these two approaches will get you on track to goal fulfillment.

Memory – How to Memorize a Long List

THINK RIDICULOUS and LINK IMAGES. It's as simple as that.

Using Creativity To Generate New Product Or Service Ideas

Creativity is often overlooked in favour of giving the job of new product development to the Marketing department. In fact anyone can have a go, just get hold of a few good techniques and see what happens.

Assumption--A Level of Consciousness

Words are the second step in manifesting. The word is the command to the universe to make your thoughts manifest in physical experience. To be able to manifest your thoughts effectively on demand your words must match what you are thinking spiritually. You will always experience your thoughts at some level of consciousness...

How Doing Nothing Makes You More Creative...

What happens when we come to a creative full stop? Taking time out from the process of problem solving can be the most powerful way to inspire innovative and unexpected thoughts as the solutions appear as if out of nowhere. Here's how it works...

Creativity Management: the Value of Engagement in Unrelated Activites

However, ideas do not occur out of the blue. The mind is at some point exposed to the problem, whether this be at the conscious or subconscious level, works on that problem at various cognitive levels and then arrives at a solution.