Create and Celebrate with Gratitude & Gusto! The 8 dimensions of creative process I wrote about in previous posts included: INITIATORS - RESEARCH - ENVIRONMENT - SYSTEMS & TECHNIQUES - FLOW OR

Celebrate With Gratitude & Gusto! The final dimension of the creative process model is celebration - acknowledging and rewarding yourself (and your team) for creative accomplishments. This dimension

Refine & Manifest - Edit, Polish, Sophisticate & Test your creative ideas and expressions - this is the seventh dimension of the creative process model. The sixth dimension was contemplation or

Importance of Contemplation  The last post was about creative flow - when we express or have creative ideas in the now. Those times of creative flow are wonderful and are most effectively followed by

The fifth dimension of my creative process model is creative flow or expression. After initiating, researching, setting up your environments and rituals and engaging systems and techniques in a logical

This post continues with more notes from my forthcoming book on creativity. I have written about creative systems previously but since this series of posts is about the logical/cyclical creative process

The third and sometimes fourth dimension (your choice) of the eight dimension model of logical creative process is about environments and rituals for a creative lifestyle. Title: Environments & Rituals

In the post two days ago I wrote about the initiators of creativity as being the first of 8 dimensions of creative process. The second dimension of the logical/cyclical method of creating involves: Research,

Yesterday I wrote about the 8 dimensions of creative process and listed them. The first dimension is the Initiators. Many aspects of life initiate creativity: • Questions • Curiosity • Challenges • Goals

I am going to begin describing the creative process over the next week because that will begin to enable conscious creative clarity. What do we really want and how do we get it? These are two fundamental

Creative Techniques Stimulate Awareness, Imagination and The Mastering of Creative Systems Yesterday's post described systems as the methods of expression and techniques as various ways of improving system

Creative Systems - an initial description A system is a method of expression; a technique is a way to improve the method. A creative system is the term for all the fundamental methods humans use to express

From our beginnings as cave dwellers we experienced a primal creative desire to improve quality of life and survive. The modern version of this is passion and it is a great attitude to have for our creative

Confidence and courage are attitudes benefiting creativity. Courage is an attitude of meeting obstacles directly. Courage is a quality of energy that can initiate and create breakthroughs. Courage fuels

Feeling is very important to creative states of freedom. Feeling Free is an attitude and a state of being conducive to creativity. Freedom is an unusual concept brandished about by politicians even though

CULTIVATE INSPIRATION However you define inspiration – cultivate it. Does Nature inspire you. Can you imagine being within the sunset scene breathing in the ocean air, feeling the wind caress you, amazed

Nature has always been inextricably intertwined with human creativity. Humans are not separate from life and nature and never have been. We find profound inspiration in nature and a walk in the woods is

Creative Attitudes Are Beneficial States of Being Creativity is enhanced by states of being like inspiration and imagination. Attitudes are very important as well. An attitude is a feeling or position

Creative desire was the initial conscious impulse that began a variety of solutions and cultural evolution. Over time many contributing factors expanding creative expression have brought us to the 21st

Creative desire has been a primary cause that’s propelled humanity over the centuries. There has also been ever increasing knowledge about life, Nature and thought processes that have motivated cultural