100 Ideas to Boost your Creativity
100 Ways to Boost Your Creativity
100 Activites and Factors to Leverage in Boosting Your Creativity
Surround yourself with whatever inspires you.
If you are struggling with something, name it. Then, describe it. If you can give it a name, and give it shape, you can have increased power over it.
Take a different route to work, or wherever it is you are going. Changing your routine can help get your creative juices flowing.
Draw something, or change the medium with which you usually work.
Fail. Allow yourself to fail. It’s just an iteration, right?
Write / send a postcard (preferably from somewhere inspiring!)
Minimize distractions…like the Internet. You know you are distracted if you are consuming someone else’s creativity, instead of expressing your own.
Carry a notebook, or a journal with you wherever you go. Yes, a cell phone could work, but there is something special about paper…
Color
Read fiction
Do laundry, or some other mundane task
Take a walk to somewhere new
Daydream
Restrict yourself. Exercising restraint while engaged in creativity or problem-solving results in better creativity.
Write a Haiku (see #14 above)
Make a list
Read an inspiring quote
Write a short poem
Laugh at something
Take pictures
Build something, say, with legos
Take a risk
Write / email someone famous. See if they write back
Pretend you’re someone else. What would they do?
Write free hand for ten minutes
Make a time capsule
Make a collage
Listen to music – with no lyrics
Write your future self a letter.
Write with pen and paper for ten minutes
Nap for a bit
Meditate
Challenge yourself
Try Yoga
Use a mind map to shape what you want to create
Free write for a while
Find / Consult a mentor
Sit on a bench, and people-watch for a while
Create a creative schedule. Try to be creative at the same time every day (it’s creative muscle memory, so to speak)
Brainstorm
Run your ideas by someone (sound boarding)
Create a deadline for yourself
Make a flow chart
Ask, “What if?”
Stand
Pace
Relax
Do your creating in the dark
Find someone who did what you want to do, but did it poorly. Kno you can do better
Forget about your weaknesses, and focus on your strengths
Let your mind wander
Play an instrument
Find other creatives to be with
Live more
Be playful
Let curiosity take over
Tell a story
Get more sleep
Develop a talent
Turn things on their head. Look at them differently
Listen to Binaural beats
Broaden your interests
Read a few blog posts on a creative topic that interests you. Comment on those posts.
Be different
Mix and mash several distinct ideas to create an entirely new one
Wake up early
Experiment
Take a break
Work in spurts
Ask for feedback
Form a new habit
Remove expectations
Ask yourself questions, out loud
Fill out a crossword puzzle
Have creative hobbies
Break a pattern in your life
Write down several observations
Learn something new
Exercise
Ask for help
Practice
Play devil’s advocate
Inspire someone
Boil it down to the least common denominator – do that thing
Do it / think of it in layers
Spend the afternoon in an art gallery
Join a critique group
Create / establish your process
Let yourself make a mess
Stop at an exciting moment when you want to keep going so that starting back up again tomorrow will be easy
Set a cut-off time
Find your specific creative time (is it morning, evening, or late night? Why then?)
Listen to ambient sounds
Make an outline
Dim the lights
Watch a relevant TED talk
Dictate
Use the wrong hand to do everyday things (the opposite hand you usually use)
Identify something right now with each of your senses. Write them down
Work backwards if you can. For writers, write the ending and work toward the beginning
Being creative is hard work. For all of us creative types, it’s important to understand how to channel that creativity individually so that we can seek after that distant, second-cousin, productivity. So, in an effort to help us understand our own creativity (believe me, this was as much for me as it was for you) I’ve compiled a list of 100 activities and other ways to help you find and boost your creative juices. If you have something to add to the list of creativity drivers below, please leave it in the comments section. Also, let us know what worked!
100 Activites and Factors to Leverage in Boosting Your Creativity
Surround yourself with whatever inspires you.
If you are struggling with something, name it. Then, describe it. If you can give it a name, and give it shape, you can have increased power over it.
Take a different route to work, or wherever it is you are going. Changing your routine can help get your creative juices flowing.
Draw something, or change the medium with which you usually work.
Fail. Allow yourself to fail. It’s just an iteration, right?
Write / send a postcard (preferably from somewhere inspiring!)
Minimize distractions…like the Internet. You know you are distracted if you are consuming someone else’s creativity, instead of expressing your own.
Carry a notebook, or a journal with you wherever you go. Yes, a cell phone could work, but there is something special about paper…
Color
Read fiction
Do laundry, or some other mundane task
Take a walk to somewhere new
Daydream
Restrict yourself. Exercising restraint while engaged in creativity or problem-solving results in better creativity.
Write a Haiku (see #14 above)
Make a list
Read an inspiring quote
Write a short poem
Laugh at something
Take pictures
Build something, say, with legos
Take a risk
Write / email someone famous. See if they write back
Pretend you’re someone else. What would they do?
Write free hand for ten minutes
Make a time capsule
Make a collage
Listen to music – with no lyrics
Write your future self a letter.
Write with pen and paper for ten minutes
Nap for a bit
Meditate
Challenge yourself
Try Yoga
Use a mind map to shape what you want to create
Free write for a while
Find / Consult a mentor
Sit on a bench, and people-watch for a while
Create a creative schedule. Try to be creative at the same time every day (it’s creative muscle memory, so to speak)
Brainstorm
Run your ideas by someone (sound boarding)
Create a deadline for yourself
Make a flow chart
Ask, “What if?”
Stand
Pace
Relax
Do your creating in the dark
Find someone who did what you want to do, but did it poorly. Kno you can do better
Forget about your weaknesses, and focus on your strengths
Let your mind wander
Play an instrument
Find other creatives to be with
Live more
Be playful
Let curiosity take over
Tell a story
Get more sleep
Develop a talent
Turn things on their head. Look at them differently
Listen to Binaural beats
Broaden your interests
Read a few blog posts on a creative topic that interests you. Comment on those posts.
Be different
Mix and mash several distinct ideas to create an entirely new one
Wake up early
Experiment
Take a break
Work in spurts
Ask for feedback
Form a new habit
Remove expectations
Ask yourself questions, out loud
Fill out a crossword puzzle
Have creative hobbies
Break a pattern in your life
Write down several observations
Learn something new
Exercise
Ask for help
Practice
Play devil’s advocate
Inspire someone
Boil it down to the least common denominator – do that thing
Do it / think of it in layers
Spend the afternoon in an art gallery
Join a critique group
Create / establish your process
Let yourself make a mess
Stop at an exciting moment when you want to keep going so that starting back up again tomorrow will be easy
Set a cut-off time
Find your specific creative time (is it morning, evening, or late night? Why then?)
Listen to ambient sounds
Make an outline
Dim the lights
Watch a relevant TED talk
Dictate
Use the wrong hand to do everyday things (the opposite hand you usually use)
Identify something right now with each of your senses. Write them down
Work backwards if you can. For writers, write the ending and work toward the beginning
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