How To Enhance Your Creativity?

Well, this article is for my readers who must be wondering and might be looking for the sources of nurturing their creativity as I have mentioned about improving and focusing on self creativity for personality development several times for a better lifestyle in most of my previous articles.

Now, what is creativity? Creativity is using original and imaginative ideas in an innovative way creating something new or out of the box. Creativity is distinguished by the ability to apprehend the world in new ways to find one’s hidden talent. And if one has got ideas but doesn’t act on them, then they are imaginative but not creative. Creativity requires commitment and passion.

Creativity emerges from effective and innovative imagination which is the crucial part of human brain covering both learning and cognitive spheres. Effective imagination and utilizing those imaginations in reality enables a person to accomplish great, revolutionary and impossible things leading to success and approbations. Pursuing passion full of creativity is a very upstanding factor in becoming a developed personality. For that, one has to enhance and nurture his/her own creativity. How? Keep reading..

1. Meditation is must

Meditation calms down your mind. It helps you to stay focused. Meditation not only improves cognitive functions of the brain but also boosts creativity. Meditation for at least 10 minutes a day can be super useful for enhancing your creativity.

2. Relax for few minutes

Relaxation is very essential when it’s the era of technology. You keep rushing all day going busy in your workplace exhausting your mind and body which drains out the brain capability by deteriorating the imaginative power. Relaxing for few minutes on your couch, rocking chair, balcony, bed wherever it’s suitable for you can be very helpful of energizing and rejuvenating your mind as well as your body.

3. Get exposed to nature

Nature is where we belong to. We all are nature’s creations but have surrounded ourselves with unnatural sources and belongings that we use to call lifestyle. Nature’s peace and purity nourishes your mind and soothes your soul. Your mind gets broad platform to function actively. Walking on grass, feeling the breeze, soil and rain can have a peaceful effect on your mind to enhance your creativity level.

4. Write down your random ideas

Whenever you get random ideas for any of your plans and inventions write them down first for keeping a close and detailed track. This helps you to recapitulate whatever you have analysed and calculated for your secret projects.

5. Make a list of your creative ways

Get a note pad and start penning your creative ways and procedures making it a list. This helps you to get numerous options and solutions for one problem so that you can approach them in different ways.

6. Expect less

Creativity loses its charm and importance when you start seeking for profit or any result out of it. Creativity is passion that needs to be pursued with complete honesty and hard work. You can expect from yourself for better input so that you can practice your creativity. Less expectation nurture and enhance creativity.

7. Stop criticising yourself

Criticising yourself and feeling low as a person can have negative impact on your personality development. Self criticisms reduce self confidence and boosts fear of outcomes leading to destruction of one’s creative phase.

8. Read more

Reading nourishes your brain, feeds your brain and keeps your brain updated. You might forget what you read few days back but when it’s time to implement some ideas for your creative pieces you come up with super effective ways and plans to achieve your goal.

9. Listen to soothing music

Low noise music boosts creativity of your mind. Ambient and soothing music reduces stress and improves cognitive skills. It also enhances one’s concentrating and focusing power. Listening to soothing music also induces restful sleep.

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10. Take calculated risks

Creativity can be enhanced and improved by taking few calculated risks as risks often lead you to success achieving your passion and goal. Calculated risks have less chances of getting failed hence it’s totally worth it to try once.

11. Have courage to take risks

Taking calculated risks and having courage to take risks are some of the crazy ways to boost one’s creative level. If you want to take risk, you need to have that courage and self confidence to take a stand.

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12. Have a backup plan for risk outcomes

Now when you take risks, it means there’s no certainty. Hence you have to be ready with a back up plant to fix the issue if anything goes wrong with your calculated risks. Backup plans are nothing but the other options to try out with some additional creative ideas.

13. Practice till you breathe

Practice makes a man perfect. Keep practicing whenever you get time. This not only makes your moves perfect but also boosts your imagination and creativity. You gradually learn more ideas to improve yourself to get much better.

14. Stay positive

Eliminating all negative thoughts and welcoming more positive vibes and ideas can help you to stay more focused improving your creativity to the next level. Positive attitude always helps to gain knowledge and pursue your passion.

15. Welcome others’ ideas and suggestions

It can be little exhaustive when you keep circulating between all your thoughts, hence little exposure to others’ ideas, suggestions and advices can be helpful. It might not help you directly, but can trigger an out of the box idea to start proceeding further in your plans.

16. Ask more questions to yourself

Curiosity is very important when it’s about creativity. The hunger of knowing things and solving issues in different and new ways can boost and enhance your creativity by improving your cognitive function of the brain. Keep asking questions to yourself such as, “What if I do this….?”, “Why this can’t be implemented in xyz process?” These methods help to improve one’s personality and thinking skills too.

17. Learn new skills and languages

Creativity is always about fresh and new ideas. And when you keep yourself vulnerable to new things your creativity reaches to its next level. Learning new skills, foreign languages might broaden your mind by cultivating new ideas.

18. Challenge yourself

Challenges make a person to go beyond their capabilities. Challenges stimulate one’s confidence level and helps achieving impossible things. When you challenge yourself you double your focus and implement all of your creative ideas to achieve your goal.

19. Find multiple solutions to single issue

Creativity is creating master pieces in various forms implementing various ideas. Multiple solutions to one issue with fresh creative ideas improve one’s creativity. For that one has to practice a lot to implement all possible creative concepts.

20. Believe you’re different and work differently

One cannot think out of the box unless he thinks he is different. If you believe that you’re different in your own way you can think and work differently with new and original ideas with concentrated creativity. To enhance your creativity believe in yourself that you are different from others.

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