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Creativity Tips and Activities

Are You a Best Selling Amazon Author and Don’t Know it?

by Karen Daniels I was reading the latest blog post on Powered by Intuition. In the post author Angela Artemis comments how she had never checked the ranking on her book “Navigating by Intuition” on amazon – until someone else commented on her “high” ranking. When she finally remembered some time later to check she [...]

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Your Creativity – Make it a No Box Zone

No more boxes!

by Karen Daniels “Think outside the box.” We hear that phrase a lot. But I ask you – is it accurate? Are there really boxes at all? Or are they figments we build from life and living and expectation? Are they just self-imposed limitations? Creativity, people say, is about getting yourself to think outside the [...]

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Take these 3 Steps Toward Your Personal Legacy Today

by Karen Daniels The world recently lost one of its most powerful innovators – Steve Jobs. There are a lot of awesome tributes to him. One of my favorites, though, was this simple image and phrase by BBM&D Strategic Branding (who does awesome work btw): Many of us would not be doing what we are [...]

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Make Your Own Creative Revolution

Creative Flight

by Karen Daniels Do you ever get those posts across your desktop that makes you sit up and think wow, dead on? Well, this morning I was reading Seth Godin’s post about The forever recession (and the coming revolution) and it struck me that he’s nailed a very important issue. I’ve pulled out a few [...]

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Probe Your Creative Creature and Get Your Buzz On

by Karen Daniels We live in a pretty serious world. The economy sucks (for most of us, at least), it’s dog eat dog, and we’re afraid for our kids outside the house as well as inside the house (online predators), not to mention that my tomatoes are just not flourishing this season. And when times [...]

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Brighten Your Future by Pushing for Creative Failure

Brighten Your Life

by Karen Daniels Comfort. We love it. Those warm slippers, a worn roomy t-shirt, and creativity projects like writing  “How to XXY in 3 Steps” that you’ve done so many times you can write them with your eyes shut.  In fact, you most likely have numerous creative things you’ve done enough times that you can [...]

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You Think, Therefore You Create

aha!

by Karen Daniels Often people view creativity as the production of something physical when before there was “nothing.” But creativity is more than that. It’s also about the way you think, your ideas, how your approach your life. Certainly when it comes to creativity sometimes there is a physical end product – a blog article, [...]

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What to do when You Hit the Dreaded Blogging Bubble

Will Blog for Food

by Karen Daniels Are you feeling trapped and uninspired by your blog? Every blogger hits rock bottom, the occasional black space where you feel like you’re going nowhere and the idea of giving up is so strong that your brain begins to marinate in the thought of quitting. The bubble may hit you after only [...]

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Free Seth Godin “Poke the Box” Workbook

What would the world look like...

For anyone who needs to get up, get going, get started and take a risk, Seth’s new book, Poke the Box, has a free workbook that goes hand in hand: What would the world look like… I say, LET’S FIND OUT! You can download your FREE Seth Godin Poke the Box Workbook here You are [...]

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Summary of Seth Godin’s talk at LinkedOC

Seth Godin words

by Karen Daniels Seth Godin’s talk at LinkedOC on March 2, 2011 On Twitter #LinkedOC Seth Godin’s new book “Poke the Box” has no words on the front cover. Why, you ask? “Because then when someone sees it on your desk they have to ask, ‘what is that?’” Poke the Box is part of a [...]

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