Skyrocket Your Creativity and Get Better Ideas: 7 Easy Ways

You will learn the process and benefits of word association and list-making and then participate in these activities to be more  creative.

Here you'll get a chance to use word association and list-

In this lecture, you will see how NOT trying to think of an idea can lead to creative ideas.

This activity uses reverse psychology to help you come up with ideas by NOT TRYING to come up with an idea.

You will learn how to put your subconscious to work and be creative by remembering dreams

This activity will help you get started using your dreams as creativity-boosting tools.

You will learn how creating lots of work (without obsessing over any of it) actually leads to the highest quality work and more creative solutions to problems.

This activity will get you started loosening up and generating more ideas which will naturally lead to better ideas.

Use Design Thinking principles as a recipe and process for coming up with creative and innovative solutions to problems that you can then take action on.

Design Thinking is a system for becoming more innovative, flexible, and creative. To go over it in a nutshell:

• First you check in with a problem you might be having. (Ex. I need a location independent job or new ways to make an income!)
  
  
• Next you begin brainstorming and jotting down possibility after possibility. Here it’s all about the quantity of ideas. Just come up with as many ideas as possible. Don’t fuss over any of them yet and don’t censor yourself.
  
  
• Then, you look at your list and start to choose something that resonates with you. Begin to hone in on one or two possibilities you might try. This is going to be your prototype. (Ex. Set up a website and start offering copy-editing services there and on Fiverr to start.)
  
  
• It’s time for action! This is your testing phase. Design Thinkers learn by doing instead of theorizing and sitting around asking “what if?” Many of us have been trained at an early age to fear failure. With Design Thinking failure is a good thing! Here we take one of our ideas and we just DO IT! Will we make mistakes? Absolutely. It’s all good. Try out your idea. See what works and what doesn’t. See what you like and what you dislike. Then fine-tune your prototype based on both the positive and negative feedback you got.
  
  
• Rinse and repeat.  Keep at it. Did you know that it took Thomas Edison 10,000 tries to invent the light bulb? He never saw himself as failing. He famously said, “I found 10,000 ways how not to do it.”  That’s the spirit of a Design Thinker! Keep at it and use every experience as a lesson for moving forward.

Now it's your turn to try Design Thinking.

Here is an exercise to help you bring "new experiences to old places." Inject a bit of creativity into your regular daily routine starting today!

In this lecture you will learn how to create a life of your own design using manifestation and creative visualization techniques.

In this lesson I will help you get started with Creative Visualization. 

This lesson will share how you can get organized creatively in a way that's fun but also efficient using Gen AI technologies with the FREE Goblin Tools.

Students will learn how by just making a few simple changes, creativity can be boosted in big and lasting ways. Get out of that rut now and change it up!

Some days you need different creativity methods and tools! Let's not leave any stone un-turned then, especially if you are still struggling to come up with better and more ideas.

This lecture comes from my course, "Boost Your Social Media Impact: For Artists & Idealists.) In this lesson, I'll show you some easy ways to use Chat GPT as a GenAI tool and assistant to make your social media posting life, creative research, and other tasks easier.

Welcome to the world of AI-powered creativity and productivity. Harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence can open up exciting new horizons for your work. Here are a few tools you might explore and start with.

What's your creative personality type? Find out here and have more insight into how to boost and sustain your creative muscles.

Are you  still stuck for ideas? Maybe you should stop thinking and just start doing! Have a look at my very best FREE resources and tools. In just 10 minutes I will have you up and running making something new and exciting today. Please have a look at the resources tab for the links.

This lecture comes from one of my earlier courses, "Easy WordPress Challenge: How to Boost Your Site's Reach." We live in an age where we are bombarded with a ton of information coming at us from multiple channels. The average web visitor only spends 7 seconds browsing any given web page. This is why it's SO important that you choose the right words that will help grab attention and get people interested in your blog posts, articles, books, courses, videos, and anything else you might have on offer. Enter my good friends, the headline analyzer tools! Make sure to check out the links in the resources area of this lecture.

Note to my online students:

I have been happy making illustrations and digital paintings for clients over the past few years but really wanted to start making something completely “mine” that is not for or dictated by clients.

I decided to pretend I had a student who is stuck like I have been recently and to then make them (me) an action plan for getting unstuck. So, my inner coach has made this plan for myself and I aim to follow it. I thought it could also be useful for someone else so please feel free to use my personal plan as a template and change according to your own situation, time-frame, goals, etc.

If you’d like, have a listen to a recent conversation I had, the Art Ladders: The Creative Climb podcast is now available as Episode #57.

Artists Valerie Allen and Armin Mersmann invite you to join them in their studio discussions about art and the creative process.

Thanks so much again for taking this course! I hope it has given you many ideas for re-sparking your own creative process. Please do get in touch via the discussion area, Q&A section, or a private message if you have any questions or would like specific feedback on your own creative projects! And if you have a moment to leave a quick review, I would be most grateful. Your reviews help others learn if this might be a good course for them.

Thanks for being a student in my online classroom!

Best wishes,

Kristen

In this lesson you can find more of my courses (free samples and discounts) as well as other services and how to stay in touch via social media.