How to Overcome Obstacles to Personal Innovation

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This is a Guest Post By Chuck Frey. He is the author of Up Your Impact: 52 Innovative Strategies to Add Value to Your Work. Available May 1st. As someone who seeks to add value to your work, you ought to make a commitment to personal innovation – to seek out new ideas, strategies and [...]

Do The Impossible

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Over the past week, I’ve talked about making an impact and creating an impossible goal. A goal so big, you can’t possibly do it yourself. While having impossible dreams and setting goals is important, I want to give you some tips on execution. I want to show you how to actually do the impossible. Up [...]

Three Creative People You Should Meet

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Amazing! That’s what you say when you encounter something new and exciting. Something different. Something outside the box. That is what creativity is all about. It’s discovering new things. It’s taking an existing item and tweaking it. It’s dreaming up a new idea, writing it down, and taking action to create it. It’s fun to [...]

Creativity: Looks vs Content

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As a creative, I love to invent and modify things. The status quo can be boring, and I love to put my unique signature on most things that leave my desk. I’ve learned though, that my creativity is many times inwardly focused. I like to change things and do things MY way. While this may [...]

Creativity & Organization: Add Emotion

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As a creative, one of the hardest things to do is to share our ideas with others. We have a picture in our heads of our creation, be it a book, recording, or possibly a painting or an invention. We can see it clearly, but we need to share our ideas with others to bring [...]

Creativity & Organization: Be Specific

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When the topic of creativity comes up, most creative people are listed as right brain thinkers that have a big picture view of life. They stand back and look at the forest as a whole. Broad topics like world peace and ending poverty are common. While this broad view is a great place to start, [...]