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Blue shoe. Yellow shoe. Break the rules. Live a life without limits.
Creativity
Productivity
Success
April 16, 2018

Dink Thifferently: Rules are only the limit of someone else’s imagination.

There’s a lot we can learn about creative problem solving from pioneers like Carol Dweck, Henry Ford, Steve Jobs and Avis. They know how to push beyond the limits of
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The alphabet is there to be played with.
Challenge
Creativity
Writing
April 9, 2018

The Alphabet Writing Challenge (It’s Not As Easy As It Sounds!)

A while back I started setting myself short writing challenges. By doing so, I hoped to inject some fun into my blog whilst also providing ideas for anyone whose writing
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Slow down and watch the world fly past - Train rushing past long exposure
Creativity
Motivation
Productivity
March 19, 2018

Slow Down! Why busy people need to stop and disconnect.

Have you noticed how push notifications actually SHOVE their way loudly into your day? How instant messaging requires INSTANT REPLIES? Otherwise, you end up having to scroll through a whole
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Cardboard robot thinking about how to become more creative and productive
Creativity
Motivation
Success
March 5, 2018

The Reason You Haven’t Done It Is Because No One Told You To: The Secret To Becoming Immediately More Creative And Productive.

You have lived on a conveyor belt most of your life. It’s time to jump off and be more productive. Some Assembly Required The success behind mass production factory lines is they
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Triangles. Diamonds. Squares. Get your writing into shape.
Creativity
Writing
February 26, 2018

Get your writing into shape. Quick creative writing tasks to experiment with every day.

Writing should be fun. It should be a source of creative enjoyment. But sometimes you can hit a rut. Writer's block. Stagnation. So it’s important to have a few tools
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Hear no failure. See no failure. Speak no failure.
Creativity
Success
Writing
February 19, 2018

3 Creative Tasks To Help You Break Free From Your Fear Of Failure

Fear of failure is the reason you’re not succeeding. Whether you think so or not, you are afraid to fail. Now’s the time to break free of the psychological preconditioning
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Proud as a peacock with my lipogram efforts
Challenge
Creativity
Lipograms
Writing
February 12, 2018

I stopped using ‘e’ and it was hard!

Look! It’s a lipogram minus that fifth symbol in our Anglo-Saxon syllabary! My last post about not using ‘a’ in my writing was fairly fruitful. But now a similar trial has
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Man writing a letter in his journal
Copywriting
Creativity
Missing Letters
Writing
February 5, 2018

Is it possible to write a blog post without using the letter ‘a’?

OR, “Is it possible to write without using the first morpheme in the English linguistic system?” This is difficult. Every other word I wish to use includes the forbidden letter! I
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Silhouette of a man, standing in the shadows, desparate to get noticed.
Advertising
Content
Copywriting
Creativity
Music
One Minute Briefs
Social Media
Writing
January 5, 2018

Get Noticed. Get Out Of Your Own Way.

It's time to get noticed. Again. I'm not the biggest U2 fan. I think their best music can be found in their earlier albums. However, they never fail to strike a
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Being stuck on a task can feel a little bit like this.
Creativity
Motivation
Productivity
Writing
June 20, 2013

Catatonia – What to do when you’re stuck

There’s always a point in the day, week, month, year, your life, when you get stuck. It’s that point when you find yourself staring a lot. Trapped in a middle-distance
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