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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

Collage Cubies

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Collage Cubies: Innovative 3D Paper Art

Collage Cubies are an outside-the-box twist on traditional 2D collage art, resulting in a 3D sculpture with delightful, often unexpected results.

Creativity

Genius Habits

Genius Habits

Unblock Creative Expression

Feeling stuck, stale or stressed out? Need to come up with fresh new ideas but just can't seem to get out of a rut? Try this 5-step action plan.

Profiles & Interviews

Profiles of Creative Empowerment

Profiles of Creative Empowerment

Tool Box, Ladder and Lightning: The 3S's of the Co-Creator Series

I'm a total believer that when an achievable idea clicks, it happens quickly and effortlessly (at least at the beginning) and then it sticks. It's as if it was pre-designed, pre-orchestrated, pre-choreographed in the waiting room of ideas.



InterACTive

The Great Creativity Illuminator

Cast Light Upon Thee: The Great Creativity Illuminator

Curious? Crack your openness to experience and let the light shine in! These bits-o-wisdom, think-ables, and prompts are curated from global creativity experts, leaders, and deck dealers and are designed to activate your genetic disposition towards originality and authenticity.

Positive PlayFULLness

Positive Playfullness

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How to Play Every Day

Cultivating a playful mindset can transform the most mundane moments into new opportunities for joy and connection. When you approach everyday situations with curiosity, enthusiasm, and a willingness to try new things, you naturally open the way for play to enter into your daily routine.



Humor

Slouchy Card

Madam Bedazzle's Tarotble Readings

Slouchy Sock Card

The Slouchy Sock card bestows the wisdom to not give in to the urge to change your creative work too quickly. Learn from an accidental 20th century fashion trend made famous in movie singer Irene Cara says, "used dance as a metaphor for attaining anything in your life that you want to accomplish."

SoulCollage®

SoulCollage

SoulCollage® Prompt

Nurture Your Inner Child

What does your Inner Creative Child look like? Is he/she getting enough healthy doses of creativity? What kind of voice does your Inner Creative Child use when it's content? How does he/she try to get your attention?

Children's Creativity

Fostering Creativity in Children

Fostering Creativity in Children

The Creative Magic of Naming

Like every other form of creative expression, there's no one right way to give a toy a name — except the way you want to. Naming is also a form of pretend play, just like dressing up in princess gowns, playing house with a toy kitchen set, or "building" with a toy tool kit.



Writing

Boring Meeting

Matthew Dicks

8 Audience Engagment Hacks

Audience attention and engagement are not givens. If there is no attempt to entertain, then even when someone has important, relevant, or useful information to share, the audience will often be disengaged, disinterested, and distracted, and so miss and not even remember the good stuff.

Creativity Coaching

Painting

Riva Weinstein

The Creative Squeeze

There are endless ways to turn the creative squeeze into nurturing hugs of creative energy and inspiration. Creative prompts are everywhere waiting to be discovered and explored.


9 Modern Day Muses

Bea Silly

Modern Day Muses

Bea Silly: Fun is an Elixir of Spontaneous Ideas

Bea Silly is the Muse of play, laughter, and dance. Bea Silly's name means bringing play, fun, laughter, and freedom back to the creative process. On Bea-ing Silly: Solutions that seemed so evasive earlier appear effortlessly in the midst of play.

More Muses

Euterpe

Invoking the Muses

Making Marvelous New Music with Euterpe

The Athenian muses were the nine sister goddesses of imagination, inspiration, and the arts in ancient Greek mythology. Euterpe, the Athenian Goddess of lyric poetry and music has many gifts to share.