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The ABC of Success
What would you say if told you that I knew the secret formula to success?  That if you used this winning formula you could achieve what ever your heart desired.  Whether it be to have a better job, more money, greater happiness?  If only it was that easy eh?
Well I don’t claim […]

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Do you hold the deep-seated belief that it takes a certain type of person to be truly creative?  Perhaps you think you have to be particularly talented, artistic or highly intelligent to be creative?
Many of us have been socialised and educated into believing that creativity is a special quality, which you simply either have or haven’t.  In modern times creativity […]

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Banksy’s real name is actually Robin Gunningham.  He uses a pseudonym in an attempt to maintain his anonymity.  Regardless, he has managed to achieve near mythical status.   However, in the same vein Banksy has become fairly mainstream and commercial, due to his ever increasing popularity.
To some he is nothing more than an offensive, criminal low life vandal who flaunts the British […]

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Let’s start by making it clear, we should try not to be influenced by conventions when it comes to being creativity.  Often the more creative we wish to be, the less rules we restrict ourselves to, the better.  People who live the most creative life’s, are most often the people who are willing to bend the rules and change them to suit their new […]

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If I had my life over,  I’ld try to make more mistakes next time.
I would relax.  I would limber up.  I would be sillier than I have been this trip.
I know of very few things I would take more seriously.
I would be crazier.  I would be less hygienic.  I would take more chances.
I would take more […]

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Creativity Killers!
1.Education, Schooling & Training - When we start school children are all artists and inventors!  They are inquisitive, love to learn, create and explore.  Their imaginations are limitless and they happily make sense of their world by playing games, role-playing, inventing and creating.  Too soon children have to work to time-scales and are pressured to find the “right” answers.  […]

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“Creativity often begins with a dumb question”
There are so many things in life that zap our creativity.  I believe there is no doubt that we are all naturally born to express ourselves creatively and create.  I think everyone, regardless of who they are are born creative, it’s just some how along the way it’s knocked out of […]

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,
Our deepest fear is that we are way powerful, beyond measure.
It’s our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves:  Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of the universe.
Your playing small doesn’t […]

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When was the last time you did something new and a bit different from your usual routine?  Or when did you last really surprise yourself and do something a bit out of the ordinary?  When we were children we were continually learning, exploring and open to new experiences.  But as we get older our outlooks […]

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I am now writing for the highly aclaimed www.careershifters.org website, which has been featured in The Independent, The Times and The Guardian.  Careershifters is a great website which helps and supports people who want to change career direction.  They offer expert advice and  guidance to people who are not happy in their current job and want to make the big […]

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