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Tap Into Your Brilliant Ideas And Inspirations

give your thoughts a second thought.
change the way you think so that your mind works to your advantage.
avoid the mental road blocks and worries that block productive positive thoughts and notions.
our gut "feelings" are always right and ahead of us in time.
our thoughts are a mix of three main types.
imagine if artists, musicians, writers, scientists, product developers could simply tune into those ideas on demand.

How to Flourish in Your Writing
With three bonus writing prompts to stimulate your creativity.

Creativity Isn't Just About Having Good Ideas
That's just the surface level of creativity.

10 Ways to Chair Meetings to Foster a Creative Atmosphere
In business meetings, it's important to encourage a creative climate and it depends on the actions of the leader or chair person. Learn about creative business management.

Magic Dots And Research & Development
This exercise will help you to expand your ability to solve problems. Many times we set boundaries for ourselves when problem solving. We've got to think outside of the box, way outside of it. When literal definitions are not so important, we can redefine our creative process when deriving a solution to life's challenges. Who says that a line is completely without width? These dot puzzles will challenge you to rethink your creative problem solving boundaries.

Newsletter Archives : 2006 : April Issue 1

April 2006 Newsletter #1

Art-O-Vision & Creative Brewing

"Developing Art-O-Vision means seeing beauty in unexpected places." — Molly J. Anderson-Childers, Art-O-Vision: Seeing the World Through Artist Eyes

In This Issue

April 2006 Journal
What's New @ the CP

April 2006 Journal

by Chris Dunmire

Nutty Ideas Fit to Print

If you're a reader of the Montgomery County Sentinel (in Maryland, USA), you may have seen my Googly-Eyed Peanut Pets project printed in the paper's Learning Links section on March 23. How did that happen? The paper's youth services director asked for permission to include my project in the paper after finding it on my Web site. She thought the pets would be "fun and foolish to include in their April Fool's Day issue" and being the opportunist humorist I am, granted permission.

See the newspaper clipping and the Peanut Pets project online.

This shameless plug for one of the goofiest ideas I've ever shared on the Web has this lesson in it for you: I en-courage you to fully embrace your creativity by going with your own flow and following through with your creative ideas (even the zany ones) no matter what you think other people will think. It's your creative life to spend as you see fit, whether it's painting beautiful still-life onto canvases or gluing googly eyes onto peanuts.

You never know what opportunities will open up for you when you bravely put yourself out there. If I can glue googly eyes onto peanuts and make a project out of it that ends up published in a newspaper halfway across the country, just imagine what YOU can do with your talents. Are you ready to break out of your shell? Get crackin'!

Something New is Brewing…

As if my above experience isn't enough, I have promising news for those of you seeking to increase your creativity. After working closely with the product development team at a major U.S. beverage company, I'm about to launch a new product that will take the creative market by storm.

Get a sneak peek at it here.

Chris Dunmire

Chris Dunmire
Publisher, Creativity Portal

What's New @ the CP

They'll be Searching Forever

A search word puzzle designed especially for April Fool's Day.

New April Fool's Day Word Search Puzzle
By Chris Dunmire
Download and print the impossible-to-solve Vegetables puzzle #19 for April Fool's Day classroom fun.

The Poetic Love Muse

The recipe for passionate poetry...

Erato: The Art and Soul of Sensual Poetry
By Molly J. Anderson-Childers
Greetings, fellow wordsmiths and poetic souls! Grab a blank notebook and a pen, and hold on tight! We're about to enter the Garden of Earthly Delights.

No Umbrella Needed

Want to elicit more sudden inspirations and ideas from your next business meeting?

Maximize the Effectiveness of Brainstorming
By Frederick D. Buggie
A half-dozen hints on what you can change in your brainstorming sessions that will make all the difference in the world.

Hello..? Operator..?!

Creative conduits and connections.

5 ways our creativity can get lost in the switchboard
By Dan Goodwin
Are you lost in the confusion of the wires and connections all competing for attention in your busy creative mind?

Plus: Creative renewal — How do you eat YOUR creative inspiration?

Honest Writing Formulas

Writing non-fiction truthfully.

Digging Truthfully Into Your Own Life for Personal Non-Fiction
By Barbara Abercrombie
One question we all face when writing non-fiction about our life is how creative can you be with the truth?

Plus: Numbers: Designing a Writing Formula that Works for You

Three Key Ingredients

Writing advice for creative entrepreneurs.

Simple Tips for Writing an Engaging Article
By Carolyn Campbell
The simplest way to begin writing an article is to break it into three key ingredients. You want to provide information, incorporate attention getters and create easy reading.

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Next Kaizen-Muse™ Creativity Coach Training Begins Feb 15

Chris Dunmire By Chris Dunmire

I'll be available as a Master Coach to coaches-in-training in the next online and teleconference Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach Training session beginning February 15, 2012.

If you're planning on taking this 17-week coach certification course with Jill Badonsky, MeD, and Robert Maurer, PhD, and want to work with me as your Master Coach, you can request me when you sign up. See you there!

Chris
Chris Dunmire, Editor-in-Creativity
Creativity Portal®