Archive for August, 2007

I saw a good posting on Mind Mapping yesterday that’s prompted me to discuss it here. This being a blog about creativity and creative output, it’s that aspect of Mind Maps that I’ll focus on. You’ll also find links to plenty of Mind Mapping resources, many of them free.

First of all, if you’re […]

I’m beginning to learn that blogging often involves embarrassing confessions from yours truly. Okay – so today my confession is that I love the early, audition stages of the X Factor. I like to think that I enjoy it as an outsider – not buying into the X Factor ideal, but marvelling at those […]

I wrote a couple of days ago about getting yourself out of creative ruts. Chris Garrett writing on Copyblogger yesterday really nailed the essence of it: challenge yourself to use your brain in an unusual way.

Yes – that’s what all my tips were getting at, but I didn’t say it so concisely as […]

7 ideas to set your imagination free and fly out of even the deepest of creative ruts.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
I love these two sayings, but wow! they’re overused these days. It’s become accepted wisdom that if you want to achieve a long term goal, or even a large, grey, wrinkly goal, you only need […]