- Write. Just sit and write a continuous stream of thoughts. Empty your brain.
- Exercise.
- Go for a walk.
- Take a break.
- Change your schedule. Mix your day up. Work in the evening instead of the day or visa versa.
- Keep a notebook/journal with you at all times. Write down any little thought of creative juice that comes to you.
- Scrapbook. Cut out pictures and phrases from magazines. Make a collage based on a theme, or not.
- Play music or change the music you usually listen to.
- Be sensual. Allow yourself to be totally absorbed by your senses. It will put you in the “present”.
- Meditate or do something relaxing.
- Connect with nature.
- Add plants to your work space.
- Write ideas or draw on paper instead of always on the computer.
- Use a different color pen. Green stimulates creativity.
- Power of association. Pick a word from a dictionary or use a quote.
- Mind map.
- Network with new people.
- Change your environment.
- Set limits.
- Daydream.
- Explore possibilities. What if? Why? How?
- Create a routine. Work at the same time without interruptions. Be consistent.
- Create a ritual. Light candles, play music, have a cup of tea as part of your creative time.
- Vary everything you do. Mix it all up. (yes, this contradicts #22 but maybe you already have a routine).
- Celebrate beginnings, endings and major events in your creative process.
- Change your perspective. Look at the project from a different view.
- Allow the process to unfold as it will. There is a period of conception, incubation and birth.
- Diversify your interests. Change what you read.
- Look at the world through child’s eyes. Be curious and innocent.
- Just start. Don’t procrastinate.
