How can we allow creativity to slip into our minds? This post is about building structures to help this happen - an essential part of the creative process.

To get creative we often need to be still or do something meditative, such as driving or having a shower. But having structure also helps. Structure can be built on seve

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One of the most important decisions you have to make as a blogger is to choose what you will blog about. Although some bloggers choose to write about whatever they want to each day (many personal blogs), most bloggers choose a niche that will be the focus of their blog. Selecting a niche allows the blogger to attract readers th

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These WordPress Cheat Sheets can be very helpful for every WordPress user. Especially if you start working with WordPress. You can find WordPress Cheat Sheets everywhere on the internet. But some are outdated, not finished or just too complicated. To ease your search for great WordPress Cheat Sheets I put this collection of Wor

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Depending at which stage of your blog, the right strategies has to be adopted. For beginners, you should worry less about traffic and monetization and pay more attention to optimizing your blog for Search Engine. Traffic and backlinks will come naturally thereafter when you understand the principle behind quality vs quantity an

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Traditional brainstorming pales in comparison with a technique called Brainwriting. Brainwriting can easily lead to more than double the ideas generated in a typical brainstorming session. Also, it’s not as tricky as brainstorming to work well for you.

As in traditional brainstorming, in Brainwriting everyone sits at a table

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Following on from last weeks post on risk, this post looks at having a graduated approach to taking on a risky activity. It also looks at pushing our comfort zone. This doesn't necessarily mean taking risks, but doing things that are more effort and go beyond what we would normally do. I also put out a call for questions on se

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A Beautiful Summer Morning represents that potential. You have the choice to use or not use the potential held in suspension for you. You have the decision to act or not to act. You need the faith to believe in yourself and your abilities to proceed.

Your tools are a mission statement, a clear goal, and a way to stay on t

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I'd like to suggest that for some people "the world" is getting better and better, and for others it is getting worse and worse. And that we get to choose which group we are in.

This post talks about how we can deal with our feelings about how the world is going, both our own world and the world "out there", and how we

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Wow our little town is making the big leagues by our standards. The last time we got this much news coverage was when the town was under 10 feet of water. Its amazing how a few concerned citizens can get the media involved in hometown issues. If you live in a small town or little community you better think twice before doing

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As I mentioned before soon I will be leaving my Marketing job after 10 years to earn my living from blogging. Travelling around the world with my laptop and earning my life from blogging has been my biggest dream for so long time. It is good to see that I am not the only one. Laptop Hobo is a new resource for those who wish to

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The term University Wits is applied to a group of scholars, who wrote in the closing years of sixteenth century. The group included Christopher Marlowe of 'Doctor Faustus' fame, Thomas Kyd and others. The Wits in a way set up a precedent for Shakespearean drama. They did not blindly follow the classic Greek or Roman drama as

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We are springs. Everything that knocks us down is a chance to jump up even higher. Every loss is a chance to show that we can bounce back and try even harder.

Every fall is a chance to get back up and show that we won’t be kept down.

Nobody and nothing can defeat us. The only person who can defeat you is you. If you give

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Jamie Harrop shares his story of the time he pushed his then 14 year old body close to its limits while undertaking a 35km mountainous hike with the weight of a small child strapped in to his rucksack. He uses the story to ask whether we should stop listening to our mind (the thing always telling us we can't do something) and

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Topics du Jour is a powerful journaling technique you can use to review, plan and put your life in perspective within no more than 5 or 10 minutes of your day.

Here’s how it works:

Number down a page from 1 to 30. Write in each line one aspect of your life that you would like to monitor. Then, each day of the month, look

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It's nice to feel grateful, and have things to be grateful about. But what if the attitude of gratitude could do so much more? Like help us to perform miracles, for example?!

From the post: I thought I'd try focusing on feeling grateful as much as possible—firstly for all the usual suspects like the house, Frank and my com

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