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An Idea Journal – Your Imagination’s Notebook

Leisa Watkins — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:28:12 +0000

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Imagination that doesn’t get used begins to fade away. Eventually it may fail to produce many original or creative thoughts, or your imagination feel that it can only safely come out to play during your dreams

Do you want your imagination to work for you? Yes! Then it needs to know that it is being taken seriously. You’ve got to show it you are paying attention.

I believe your mind is more open to creative imagination, and apt to give you those million dollar ideas, if it knows that you will take them seriously. One sure fire way to stimulate your imagination, is to keep an idea journal.

Your idea journal really doesn’t have to be fancy, in fact, it could be as simple as a spiral-bound notebook. However, writing down my ideas in a beautiful black leather bound journal seems to communicate to my subconscious mind that “your [...]

Imagination and Creativity: Both Are Needed to Solve Problems

Leisa Watkins — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:52:12 +0000

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Imagination and creativity go hand-in-hand. By breaking down the words creativity and imagination we can gain a great understanding of how closely connected they are.

Imagination

image – to form a mental picture ate – join ion – action

So we can see that imagination is an action. It’s the act of forming a mental picture and is not the ability to recall a mental picture.

Creativity

create – to evolve something from one’s own thoughts or imagination, such as creating a work of art or an invention. ity – a suffix expressing a state or condition

So creativity is the ability to express what one sees with their own thoughts or imagination. And imagination is a skill that helps to bring things into existence.

If imagination is the skill that helps to bring the things we create into existence and creativity is the ability to express what one sees with their own thoughts or [...]

Stimulate The Creative Palette – Ask Questions!

Leisa Watkins — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:40:14 +0000

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Creative questions are the imagination’s appetizer. They wet your brains palette and they stimulate creativity.

If you want your imagination to kick-in and reveal that next great idea you’ve got to get your brain to work on it. The best way to do that is to ask it questions.

You see, your brain is already asking itself questions all day long as it tries to make sense of what is going on around us. So trick your brain into working for our benefit, rather than against it.

When you want a solution to something, when you want to get your creative juices going don’t just make a wish, ask a question.

For example, rather that saying, “I wish I could go to Hawaii,” ask “How Can I Spend a Week in Hawaii this year and get paid for it?” Then pay attention to the answers you get (more [...]

Your Imagination is Starving – Feed It!

Leisa Watkins — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:05:22 +0000

This time look at it with new eyes! Try to capture the interesting textures, the way the shadows dance upon the wall, and those things that others often don't notice.