Even though I have worked with computers for 35+ years I still prefer to manage my own tasks using pen and paper. I have a paper calendar, not any high tech solution and when it comes to my to-do-lists I am writing lists – by hand. At work I use the calendar in Outlook for [...]
This bunch of links are all about being or becoming (more) creative.
The first link is 5 Ways to Enhance Your Creativity at Problogger. The fifth one, record your ideas, is important. Always (well almost always..) have something around so you can make some notes when brilliance strikes.
The second link is over at ChangeThis, Hugh McLeod [...]
Sarah Lewis at Blogging Expertise has started a Contest: Create a Clever Blogging T-Shirt with great prices. I have not decided whether to participate or not but I love the idea. Contests are a great way to get visitors involved and interested.
The next step could be to create and sell T-shirts at places like [...]
Work only four hours a week with Tim Ferriss has a 50 minute interview with Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek. Tim has a blog connected to the book.
The interview is really interesting, there is a discussion about time management and things like how to handle email. It makes you think about your own [...]
I found the Logo Design Blog while browsing MyBlogLog. Logos are interesting and I found a post titled Design Inspiration: 56 Most Creative Logos. The logos shown, with links to the companies, are a mix of unknown (at least to me) and well known logos.
Firefox is there, I like the fox and the globe. Rollyo [...]
I got the link in my daily Forward Steps message and I really love these eight principles.
Stop Hiding Who You Really Are
Start Being Intensely Selfish
Stop Following the Rules
Start Scaring Yourself
Stop Taking It All So Damn Seriously
Start Getting Rid of the Crap
Stop Being Busy
Start Something
Now go and watch the movie over at The Eight Irresistible Principles [...]
You sit there and just can not get started, nothing pops up that feels worth writing about…. then remember you are not alone. Wikipedia defines it like this:
Writer’s block is a phenomenon involving temporary loss of ability to continue writing, usually due to lack of inspiration or creativity.
Calvin Innes has a cartoon that shows [...]
Guy Kawasaki has a very interesting post about The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. The rule says that a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.
Guy writes that this rule is applicable for any presentation to reach agreement: for example, raising capital, making [...]
March 14 I was at Midzone for the opening of an art exhibition. It was also the launch of Konstzonen (Artzone) which is a gallery in the office. The artist is Anders Adèrn from Malmö.
I like this concept, mixing business and art. This is an intersection that is good for creativity.
This weekend I attended a course about creativity and the subconscious. It was fun playing around with colours, using “the other hand” and finally trying to find a running thread in what we had created. One thing is pretty clear though, I will not make it as an artist but it was great fun.
“The other [...]
