Tips to Rejuvenate Creativity

1. Surround yourself with creative people

Hang out with writers, musicians, poets and artists. Often, just being in a creative environment will inspire you and refresh your creative mind.

2. Expose yourself

Expose yourself to new art – books, music, paintings – all the time. If you’re a rocker, listen to funk. If you’re a crime writer, read fantasy. If you’re a productivity writer, read something about slacking off.

4. Do something new

Play chess. Read a book if you watch television and watch television if you read. Go outside. Sing in the shower.

5. Meet with new people

Meet new people from different walks of life. Gain insight into their perspectives on life. Strike up a conversation on the bus.

6. Carry a camera with you

look for interesting things in your every day scenery. Hadn’t noticed that crack in the path before? Then it’ll do. Set a quota and force yourself to make it. Don’t go to new places to do this – force yourself to find new perspectives on old knowledge.

7. Write down a list of ideas

draw random arrows between them. For instance, if you’re a blogger, write down everything in your Categories list and draw lines to connect unusual ideas. If you had the categories “Relationships” and “Management” and randomly connected them you’d have an interesting article idea to work with.

8. Create a framework

As many writers have said, the blank page can be the biggest show-stopper. Instead of trying to rely on pure inspiration, set your topic or theme and start creating within confines. Think within the box you create for yourself.

9. Keep a journal

It can get your mind working, and in a month, or a year, when you’ve gained some distance from what you’ve written it can give you new ideas.

10. Stop telling yourself you are not creative

If you tell yourself not to come up with ideas, then you probably won’t – no matter how hard you try.