reaching out to re-start, re-develop, re-create or simply create

reaching out to re-start, re-develop, re-create or simply create

I am now reaching out to re-start, re-develop, re-create or simply create a new mission purpose focus.

If you live in Athens or Georgia and know of a group, club or association that would be interested in having me come and provide a 20 to 30 minute breakfast, lunch or dinner presentation for one of their meetings please give them my email address, FB address or website

alan@cre8ng.com

http://www.cre8ng.com

Here are four topics I am offering this Fall.

Possible Topics:

A.  30 Days in Hell and What I have Learned

B.  Creative Thinking is your best service and product

C.  Understanding Yourself More So You Can Work Better with Others.

D.  What Hill Are We Climbing UP - Is your workplace a team

      or a chaotic group?

I will gladly split any fees when there are any.

Most of these groups have no budget for speakers yet some of their members who many want to hire me do.

Are you interested and willing to help me arrange some speaking engagements in Athens or throughout Georgia.

civic groups

social groups

rotary, kiwanis, lions, civitan

for locations over 50 miles I only request mileage fee to cover transportation.

Daily Creative Thinking Development - Day Six

Daily Creative Thinking Development - Day Six

Daily Creative Thinking Exercises

Here is a system for improving your creative thinking traits, skills and the tools and techniques you know and use.

We each can improve our creative thinking abilities

by improving them our creativeness will reawaken

and get stronger.

Try this simple approach Monday to Friday

a. read and think about a creativity quote

b. choose a creative thinking trait to think about and practice for that day.

c. practice using one creative thinking tool that you know or learn a new one.

i.e.:

A. Use Creativity Quotes each day.

4 quotes to consider today

 
Experts don’t always no ALL THE ANSWERS or are RIGHT ALL THE TIME.

IF ONLY THEY HAD THOUGHT ABOUT IT...

"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" --David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.

"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." --A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" --H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.

"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." --Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With the Wind."

"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." --Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." --Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." --Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." --Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads.

Here is one source of many resources for Creativity quotes:

http://www.cre8ng.com/professional-materials/about-me/creativity-quotes

B. Focus on one Creativity Trait each day to further develop it.

16. original

Being original is a driving force for creative people. They thrive on it.

Spend time playing with or looking for ORIGINAL ideas.

http://www.cre8ng.com/professional-materials/about-me/32-ways-to-be-more-creative/32-traits-of-creative-thinking

C. Practice using a different creative thinking tool each day.

S.C.A.M.P.E.R.  Classic created by Bob Eberle

Generate new or different ideas using VERBS, ACTION WORDS

S       -        Substitute

C      -        Combine 2 or more ideas

A      -        Adapt, Adjust, Alter

M      -        Minify, Magnify

P       -        Put to Other Uses

E       -        Eliminate

R      -        Reverse a function, order, step in a system

here is one resource for picking future tools and techniques:

http://www.cre8ng.com/professional-materials/creative-thinking-tools/tools-backup

Enjoy your weekend.  See you on Monday

Alan

alan@cre8ng.com

http://www.cre8ng.com

Daily Creative Thinking Development - Day Five

Daily Creative Thinking Development - Day Five

Daily Creative Thinking Exercises

Here is a system for improving your creative thinking traits, skills and the tools and techniques you know and use.

We each can improve our creative thinking abilities

by improving them our creativeness will reawaken

and get stronger.

Try this simple approach Monday to Friday

a. read and think about a creativity quote

b. choose a creative thinking trait to think about and practice for that day.

c. practice using one creative thinking tool that you know or learn a new one.

i.e.:

A. Use Creativity Quotes each day.

4 quotes to consider today

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." --The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957

"But what ... is it good for?" --Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.

Thank you Mycoted
http://www.mycoted.com/Creativity_Quotes

here is my general source of sources for creativity quotes.

Here is one source of many resources for Creativity quotes:

http://www.cre8ng.com/professional-materials/about-me/creativity-quotes

B. Focus on one Creativity Trait each day to further develop it.

12. flexible

Highly Creative People are very flexible when they are playing with ideas. They love to look at things from multiple points of view and to produce piles of answers, maybes, almosts, when other people are content with the or an answer or solution.

http://www.cre8ng.com/professional-materials/about-me/32-ways-to-be-more-creative/32-traits-of-creative-thinking

C. Practice using a different creative thinking tool each day.

RANDOM INPUTE

Combine ideas from various parts of your life, your profession/occupation or multiple occupations, forms of engineering, science, sports to generate new ideas today.

Random Input is a technique for linking other thinking patterns into the ones we are using. It helps us move outside our normal way of thinking, so that we can come up with new solutions to our problem....

Back in the early 90s when I began my first website with the intention of it becoming a multi-media resource of as many sources of creativity materials: books, articles, filmstrips, videos, movies, etc.

The creator of MINDTOOLS began and created over the 20 to 25 years his fantastic site devoted to TOOLS.

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_CT.htm

here is one resource for picking future tools and techniques:

http://www.cre8ng.com/professional-materials/creative-thinking-tools/tools-backup

Daily Creative Thinking Development - Day Four

Daily Creative Thinking Development - Day Four

Daily Creative Thinking Exercises

Here is a system for improving your creative thinking traits, skills and the tools and techniques you know and use.

We each can improve our creative thinking abilities

by improving them our creativeness will reawaken

and get stronger.

Try this simple approach Monday to Friday

a. read and think about a creativity quote

b. choose a creative thinking trait to think about and practice for that day.

c. practice using one creative thinking tool that you know or learn a new one.

i.e.:

A. Use Creativity Quotes each day.

Here is one source of many resources for Creativity quotes:

http://www.cre8ng.com/professional-materials/about-me/creativity-quotes

4 quotes to consider today

“I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.” – Woodrow Wilson

“Our best thoughts come from others.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”  – Dr. Seuss

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to look after them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” – John Steinbeck

Thank you to Mike Brown and Brainzooming my source for these today.

B. Focus on one Creativity Trait each day to further develop it.

13. fluent

Generate many ideas….how about for using a brick other than
building walls or paved areas?

It could be a door stop, a boat anchor, a weapon, a prop, a weight for holding down papers, etc., etc., etc. This is what a creative person would say about the possible uses of a brick.

http://www.cre8ng.com/professional-materials/about-me/32-ways-to-be-more-creative/32-traits-of-creative-thinking

C. Practice using a different creative thinking tool each day.

RANDOM INPUTE

Combine ideas from various parts of your life, your profession/occupation or multiple occupations, forms of engineering, science, sports to generate new ideas today.

Random Input is a technique for linking other thinking patterns into the ones we are using. It helps us move outside our normal way of thinking, so that we can come up with new solutions to our problem....

Back in the early 90s when I began my first website with the intention of it becoming a multi-media resource of as many sources of creativity materials: books, articles, filmstrips, videos, movies, etc.

The creator of MINDTOOLS began and created over the 20 to 25 years his fantastic site devoted to TOOLS.

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_CT.htm

here is one resource for picking future tools and techniques:

http://www.cre8ng.com/professional-materials/creative-thinking-tools/tools-backup