What will you create in your world today?



Genius Habits

Genius Habits

Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time

Do you ever say "I don't have the time to be innovative or creative"? Energy is the liveliness and force we need to sustain the creative process.

Art by Angela Blaha

Angela Blaha

The Unfinished Painting

What happens to art that never gets completed? Is it abandoned? On pause? Or does it serve a greater purpose for us to uncover?



Screen-Free Fun

Tee Time

Swing Into Creative Play!

Tee Time: Wordplay & Warm-Ups

MetaFOREing on the game of golf, play these 18 holes to expand your creative thinking of possibilities. Disengage your work-a-day brain to invite innovative thinking in through fun activities with a twist of humor.

Creativity

Genius Habits

Genius Habits

Use Stimulus to Spark Passion for Creativity

Stimulus is the pre-state to being creative. How exactly does stimulus spark passion and creativity at work?

Profiles & Interviews

Profiles of Creative Empowerment

Profiles of Creative Empowerment

Nina Surel's Studio, a Touch of the Feminine

On a recent trip to Miami, I was curious about the people and places that make up a synergistic artist community in the southern most cosmopolitan city of the United States, crowned and arranged in la hispanidad.



InterACTive

Cookie Fortune Maker (CFM)

Cookie Fortune Maker Writing Prompt

The Dejitaru o mi kuji taipu, or The World's Oldest Microblogging Platform, rightly takes its seat in the history of social media! Play with the tool now to exercise your creative writing or to make your own printable fortune messages!

Positive PlayFULLness

Positive Playfullness

funmire

Embrace Your Inner Child

Recall the carefree days of childhood, when the world was your playground, and laughter echoed through the air. That youthful spirit still resides within you, and it's time to reconnect with it.



Humor

Starchy Seeds Card

Madam Bedazzle's Tarotble Readings

Starchy Seeds Card

Summertime matinees with stocked snack bars has Bedazzle thirsty to address the duality of "starch seeds" and their symbolic significance in handfuls of crunches and munches, which by the way, *are* different things.

SoulCollage®

SoulCollage

SoulCollage® Prompt

Calm the Stirrings of Impatience

Spend some time listening for your own inner voice of impatience. Remember that it is only a small part of you. Notice how it makes itself known to you in your body.

Children's Creativity

Fostering Creativity in Children

Fostering Creativity in Children

Robert Henri's 'The Art Spirit'

American artist Robert Henri in 1923 wrote The Art Spirit in 1923, a collection of his lectures and portions of his correspondence with his students, and insightful, beautiful, and inspiring ideas about painting and the arts.



Writing

Writing

Estelle Erasmus

Mining Your Life for Ideas

Many writers want to write and have lots of ideas, but they just can't get them out. If the muse just won't manifest, here are a few ways supported by scientific evidence to knock down those roadblocks so you can build something lasting with your words and achieve your goals.

Creativity Coaching

Dance

Rita Farin

Building Confidence During Transition

I've noticed that we all exhibit some chipmunk behavior. We go through life acquiring all sorts of experiences. We store them somewhere in the underground of our minds. But unlike the chipmunk, when winter comes we look in our empty cheeks and find nothing.


9 Modern Day Muses

Audacity

Modern Day Muses

5 Belief Strategies from the Audacious Muse, Audacity

Audacity is the Muse of courage and uninhibited uniqueness. Audacity's name means liberation from the opinion of others. The talented artist, writer, or musician who does not show belief and confidence can flounder, when someone less talented but with assertive belief can flourish.

More Muses

Clio

Invoking the Muses

Clio's Lessons

The Athenian muses were the nine sister goddesses of imagination, inspiration, and the arts in ancient Greek mythology. Her head is crowned with laurel leaves, and her eyes are bright. Celebrate the gifts of history, education and knowledge that come from the Athenian Muse Clio.