Have you heard the "Think so shall it be" saying. Well it's true. Your subconscious listens very attentively. If you tell yourself "I can't" aloud or internally, then well you guessed it. You won't. When pressed with a problem to come up with a creative solution and you immediately tell yourself "I can't do that" try "In the past I have had a challenging time doing this however I am learning to take a more creative look at things now". Or something along those lines. Your subconscious will start to take down the road block that you mentally created and in time, you will open up. Allowing more room for a creative outcome rather then the wall you have encountered in the past.

Encouraging your subconscious can also be a big creative boost. Write your ideas down. It can be on a napkin, your hand, your friends arm (you can only write on one of your arms and your friend has two) or a notebook. Your subconscious mind is more likely to give you more of what you pay attention to. Writing down your ideas tells your subconscious that they are important. If you don't pay attention to your moments of creativity, you are telling your subconscious that they are not important and those ideas may become far a few between. When writing down your ideas you are feeding your subconscious with motivation to search out more creative ideas. Writing it down also helps you remember your thoughts, your subconscious works on it, and it can transform into some more creative ideas.

And lastly, focus on one thing at a time. This is becoming ever so challenging for most people today. The consistent interruptions can throw your mind all across the room and back. With cell phones becoming increasingly popular for doing things other then talking like texting, staying current with your Facebook friends, posting your every move on Twitter. To the blasts of information and media that are thrown at us every day. E-mail is a big distraction that people get sucked into. You do your daily checking to see if anything important needs your attention, then you get sucked into replying to people, reading all the forwarded junk from your buddies, the latest and greatest gadget you MUST HAVE, which catapults you into cruising the web where you can get lost for hours.

Try to cut this stuff into scheduled blocks of time. Turn off your cell phone (have a personable greeting on your voicemail), check your email, make calls, do your web surfing all within an allotted time frame. The more you cut out these distractions, the more you will allow your mind to concentrate on the task at hand and open up the possibilities to different ways of doing things "creative thinking". And the more time you will find yourself having each day to do the things you need to do and be creative. For example, you get lost in all the distractions of the day and notice that it is now 5 o'clock and you haven't accomplished anything you set out to do today. Then you start knocking things off your to-do list but in a hurried mindset while trying to do them all at once When you finish you wish you would have taken a more creative approach to your tasks instead of just getting them done to get them done. If you had more time to focus and not have been in such a rush, you could have focused on each task with a clear head thus allowing room for more creative and calm thinking. "Cut out the distractions".

I hope you enjoyed my 3 -tips to Increasing Creativity.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. More tips to come...

Nicholas Nelson | Nicholas Nelson Studios | Visual Artist | http://www.nicholasnelson.net