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10 Steps To Clear Thinking
Does your mind sometimes feel like a television station you can't quite tune in? You know there's an interesting program on - or several, but everything is mixed with static. What if you could "tune in" at will, have clear thinking whenever you want it? Try some of the following.
Ten Clear Thinking Techniques And Tips
1. Take a walk. Science will eventually prove this to be a great way to improve the quality of your thinking, but don't wait for the proof.
article tags: clear thinking, think clearly, brainpower, self improvement
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Creativity and Rebellion: Why They Go Hand-in-Hand
Studies on creative people have consistently demonstrated that creativity is associated with openness to new ideas, risk-taking, and being inner-directed. Do these traits put creative people at odds with the culture and people around them? The answer is sometimes yes and sometimes no.
Say for example that Jeremy is a creative child that performs below average in school.
article tags: creativity, self-improvement, rebellion, creative people, right-brain thinking
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How to pick the Dream Tattoo Design That You Want Today
A recent survey tells us that 24% of Americans between the ages of 18-50 are tattooed. This is almost 1 in 4. The most popular reason people get tattooed is “To broadcast what they are all about.”
Keeping this in mind, many people end up regretting the tattoo that is inked on their body. Most of the time, these people did not take the time to really think about why they choose a particular tattoo and look at other tattoo designs that are available.
article tags: tattoo, tattoos, tattoo design, tattoo designs
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7 Tips to Make You More Creative
Many great things have started as an simple, creative idea. Consider donating some of your best ideas to help others. The more creative you are, the more ideas you will be able to create. You can be creative even if you don't think you are.
I have known many people that were scared to use a computer for the first few times. However, after diving into it they became more comfortable.
article tags: idea, creativity, giving, donate, create, help
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Ways to crank up your Creativity
Creativity is a quality that we all have buried inside of us, one way or the other. It involves the invention of something new or the re-invention of something already existing to make it useful of interesting.
Some people’s creative abilities are closer to the surface and one can easily see the manifestations of them. People say that their creativity is “inborn”.
article tags: enhance creativity, creative success, unleash creativity, discover creativity, find creativity, creative steps, success with creativity
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Who Wants to Work?
I feel a loss when pragmatism wins over the mystical. There is a greater magic at work when you engage with Source. I believe that strength and optimism combined with hard work will keep marketing principles and other learned strategies working well for success. I have a much different story to tell.
I've spent many years in the corporate world and in the service and sales industry.
article tags: magic, divine, true calling, destiny, god, source, creation, passion, purpose, mystical, spiritual, work
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Use Visualization to Expand Your Knowledge
Our minds know much more than we know that we know. One way to access some of our hidden knowledge is through the use of special guided imagery techniques. The following technique uses a special type of visualization that can help you access hidden knowledge, improve your creativity, and learn new skills much more quickly.
article tags: visualization, technique, guided imagery, self hypnosis, accelerated learning, improve learning, imaginary guides
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How to Solve Problems Creatively
When traditional thinking isn't the answer to your problems try thinking creatively, you might end up with several unique solutions to your problems.
article tags: creative thinking, problem solving, creative solutions to problems
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How to Boost Your IQ -- Guaranteed!
What if I were to tell you that just six months from now your IQ could be 25 percent higher than what it is today? And what if I told you that all you needed to do was perform a simple daily exercise that would make it happen? In fact, there is strong evidence that by doing this one easy exercise, you can dramatically increase your IQ -- and even make yourself a genius! So what is this simple, easy and fantastic “genius exercise” that will supercharge your brain? This: Keep a daily journal or diary.
article tags: iq boosters, intelligence, creativity, journaling, genius, mental power
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Creating A Life That’s Right For You: Are You Living By Design or Default?
We all have many different areas and elements that together make up our lives. But are the ones that make up your life right now there by design or default?
Read the following two statements and notice which best describes how you are and how your life unfolds -
a) I have a clear vision and plan of how I want my life to be. I create and seek out the opportunities I need to bring me closer to this ideal life.
article tags: creativity, creative, increase creativity, greater creativity, creativity coaching, artist, artists
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Personality Test - Are You Liked By Your Co-Workers?
You must be aware of somebody in your office that is not liked by many of you. But that person is unaware of that.
article tags: popular, personality, time, internet, colleagues, co-workers, hygiene, communication
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Powerful Tools For Lucid Dreaming
Dream Signs - What Are They?
“I awoke in the morning as usual. I lay in bed for a moment and reached over to pick up the phone, as I had an important call to make. I started to dial the numbers and glanced away briefly. Looking back at the phone, I noticed something odd had happened. The object in my hand had now changed into the remote control for the television! What was going on?”
As you may have guessed, I was in fact dreaming.
article tags: lucid dreaming, lucid dreams, dreams, dreaming, asleep, conscious, spiritual, rem, reality checks
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The Value of Creativity - Part 1
Part 1 of 3
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Some Introductory Thoughts...
I make my living, such as it is, on creativity, spit and a little shoe polish. Well, not so much spit and shoe polish. I’m a writer, a designer, and a serial entrepreneur. I’m also a so-called “expert” on creativity. Which is why I found myself, at three o’clock one morning, thinking about the inherent value of creativity.
article tags: creativity, creative, creativity resources, angie dixon, leonardo trait, leonardotrait.com
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Creativity and Confidence: How To Supercharge Your Self-Confidence Using Your Natural Creativity
Great self-confidence is something that everyone can benefit from developing.
Why is it that when the lives of two friends or colleagues of similar backgrounds, education, age, and ability are compared, we often see that one has achieved great things in all aspects of their lives with seemingly very little effort or restriction, whilst the other has.
article tags: creativity, creative, increase creativity, greater creativity, creativity coaching, artist, artists
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Supercharge Your Creativity: The 5 Power Questions to Ask Yourself
Questions are one of the most powerful tools we have available to us. A great open-ended question can be the key to unlocking a whole undiscovered thread of ideas, reaching a fresh new insight on an old familiar issue, and understanding some part of ourselves and our creativity in a different way.
Here are 5 “Power Questions” to ask yourself to illuminate the inner workings of your creativity, and as a result give you a new level of awareness and surge of motivation.
article tags: creativity, creative, increase creativity, greater creativity, creativity coaching, artist, artists
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Use Mind Maps to Stimulate Your Creative Thinking
Do you want an easy method to boost your creative thinking ability? It can be done with a simple change in the way you make notes when you are trying to organize your thoughts.
article tags: creativity, notes, creative, making notes, note taking, boost creative thinking, studying, be more creative, learning, mindmaps
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Creative Thinking 101
Can creative thinking and even spontaneity come from a highly organized approach? Yes! For example, if you watch great comedians closely, you'll see that they have certain habits of mind. Even the most spontaneous ones get better with practice, because they're training their brains to find the humor in situations.
In the same way, you can train yourself for more creative thinking.
article tags: creative thinking, creativity, problem solving
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THE POWER OF STORYTELLING
Each and every day as we are building our businesses, we all know the key to a successful presentation is a product being sold to the end-line consumer and/or sponsoring a new person. In an upcoming issue, I am going to write about the difference between making a sale and having customer loyalty in the sales process. In the sales process, you are fighting many different types of animals.
article tags: presentation, storytelling, interest
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Creative Imagination
Creative imagination is more than just active imagination. To be able to actively imagine things, to see and hear things in one's mind, is an important ability. It doesn't have to involve much creativity, though, does it? Daydreaming, for example, is a process of imagination. It can consist of an elaborate fantasy world, but one full of all the things that many people think about.
article tags: creative imagination, imagination, ideas
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The Value of Creativity - Part 3
Part 3 of 3
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The Interpersonal Value of Creativity
Think about the person you love most. What is one thing you find most appealing about that person?
Most people would say, “their sense of humor,” “they make me laugh,” “they’re really funny.”
Even people who don’t think of themselves as funny, are drawn to people they think are funny. People who would describe themselves as having “no sense of humor” still reach out for humor in their lives.
article tags: creativity, creative, creativity resources, angie dixon, leonardo trait, leonardotrait.com
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Creative Focus: You Always Get What You Focus On… So Focus On What You Really Want!
What do you focus on and spend most of your time thinking about? The things you want in your life? Or the things you don't want? Whatever it is you focus on, that's what you'll find will appear in your life.
When we focus on negative things, or things we definitely want to avoid in our life, often it's these very things that appear just at the worst possible moment.
article tags: creativity, creative, increase creativity, greater creativity, creativity coaching, artist, artists
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How to Contact Your Inner Wizard
In Lord of the Rings, it was Gandalf. In Star Wars, it was Obe Wan or Yoda. In the legends of King Author, it was Merlin. For the ancient Aztecs, it was Quetzalquatl. You might even say that in the book of Exodus, it was Moses. Time and again in myth and literature we witness the appearance of the “Wise Old Man.” He is always more or less the same -- a wizened old man with a long white beard who is brimming with special wisdom and powers.
article tags: creativity, wisdom, lucid dreaming, problem solving, magic, subconscious, mind
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How to Turn a Difficult Meeting into a Positive Meeting
• Have you ever seen meetings turn into battles, and sometimes people even stop contributing because they fear another battle?
• Does it seem like every time someone steps up with a positive idea everyone shoots it down.
• Do your meetings end without providing positive move-forward activities?
Then here's your answer, read on!
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You're As Good As Your Last Idea! 5 Ways to Get Your Creativity Flowing.
So, if effective communication is the difference between life and death of a business, and it's something that us entrepreneurs should be mindful of everyday, how do we keep those ideas flowing? As the vehicles of these stories, we have to keep ourselves fresh first. Here's 5 ways to do that...
article tags: marketing, promotion, entrepreneur, web design, startups, technology, internet
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How To Remember Things
What's the biggest problem with memory tricks? Remembering to use them, of course. There are many memory techniques that work well, but you'll forget them when you need them most - unless you make using them a habit. So when you take the time to learn a technique, use it until it becomes automatic. Here are some to try.
Using a Story-List
I went to a party as a child.
article tags: memory, memory tricks, creative memory tricks, memory techniques