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Creative

To be creative is a fun way to get things done. You look at life and react to things positively and come up with something unique and original. Here are the ways to develop your creative capacity:

1. Solving problems: Solving problems is the best way to exercise your creativity. A new problem needs a new solution. A new solution has to be created.     

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.  ~Frank A. Clark

Problems are the price you pay for progress.  ~Branch Rickey

2. Do it your way: Do not imitate; do things your way to express yourself. It is your style, your way of telling things. It is different from others. Like writing an article, you catch the attention of others when you write it with fresh input and perspective.   

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. ~ Jean Cocteau

3. Attention to details: Doing a job meticulously is to pay attention to each step of your work and discover new ideas and improve upon.  

Success is the sum of details. ~Harvey S Firestone

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. ~John Wooden

4. Manifest your imagination: The most important thing is to take action to work your ideas. As you go along you can then fine-tune it creatively.  

First comes thought, then organization of that thought into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. ~Napoleon Hill

5. Change: Change is a necessity. To change is to do things that you have not done before. It is to seek progress and improvement. It is also taking risks. When you do not change you will be swarmed and taken over by changes that are taking place around you.  Be proactive rather than reactive.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~Henri Bergson

6. Be productive: To be productive is to be efficient and effective. It means to do things differently in less time but not less thoroughly. Again, you need to be innovative. 

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before ~Franz Kafka

7. Read, see and observe: To conceive ideas, you need to read books, articles and look at other people’s ideas, and be inspired. You also need to be observant and look at things with an inquisitive and critical mind.   A creative mind also implies that you are able to see the usual things differently.

  

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.  ~Henry David Thoreau

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.  ~George Kneller

8. Work on it mindfully: Do work with all your heart and soul. Your creative ideas will only surface when you are really interested in doing them.   

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts.  This is the secret of success.  ~Swami Sivananda

9. Take a break: A break is only worthwhile when you work very hard on a problem. It is because a solution will only come all of sudden, say, after a nap.   

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.  ~Attributed to both Jim Goodwin and Sydney J. Harris

10. To simplify: To simplify is to do away with the unnecessary. It is to do less and get more done. Life is complicated enough and you should think creatively for a simple way to work and live.   

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.  ~Leonardo DaVinci

Being creative is a positive mental attitude. It is an attitude that opens door to vast opportunities.  

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