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Recently I wrote a post about a simple technique for enhancing your creativity that I learned from reading the book Creativity by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. In a nutshell 1. Be surprised by something every day, 2. Surprise someone everyday, 3. Write both down and chronicle them over time. I thought it might be wise to share my system for collecting this information, as it is very simple yet quite effective. I started by using google …read more
Would you like to be more creative? Here is a simple 3 step technique for getting your creative juices flowing from the man who wrote the book on Creativity, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Try to be surprised by something everyday. Try to surprise someone every day. Write down what surprised you and how you surprised others. These three steps are great in that they are so simple and also so powerful. First, you will begin to consciously …read more
If early tomorrow morning I drove past your home and threw a bag full of dirty paper in your driveway before you woke up, would that be alright? What if I did it twice next week? What if I did it twice every week… forever? At what point would my “free trial” of the bag of trash start being litter? How about this. When you leave for work today, I am going to come to …read more
The latest edition of Newsweek magazine features multiple stories on Epilepsy. If you are looking for some insight as to what Epilepsy is from both a medical and individual perspective, I recommend reading it. The feature piece talks about the lack of attention that Epilepsy gets from the research community, in spite of the staggering number of people whom the disorder affects. The following is a quote from the piece: “There are 200,000 new cases …read more
Earlier this evening I took the family to the mall to hunt down some deals. Daddy needed to score some new threads, preferrably discount threads. Well, that part of the trip was a success. I managed to get 5 new dress shirts – nice ones – for under $50 bucks. Not bad right? So then we come home, put the kids to bed, and I start to unwrap my new shirts, which is when the …read more
I find that some of my best email editing work happens in the nano-second following the moment I hit send. Sound familiar? Forgotten attachments, poor grammar, spelling mistakes, negative tone, left out recipients and other errors amazingly jump right off the page once it is too late to do anything about it. Good news. Gmail has added an unsend function which provides you 5 seconds to “take it back.” While this does not give the …read more
If you are a marketing professional living or working in the Dayton, Ohio area, I want to encourage you to join a social network I created – Dayton Marketing Community. The site is constantly evolving, and new members are joining every day. There are so many reasons why you should join. Here are 5: Find A Job – The Dayton economy has been hit hard in the past few years. As a result many very …read more
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