Showing posts with label #Creativity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #Creativity. Show all posts

Thursday, 5 May 2016

Book Review: Unleashing Your Creativity By Majid


I have given this opportunity to review a short guide by Majid Mehmood, business consultant titled :

Unleashing Your Creativity: A short guide to becoming more creative 
Author : Majid Mehmood.

Although I am not a life coach or a mentor but anything related to creativity fascinates me a lot. I instantly got inspired when any creative piece of work rolled in front of my eyes so this book instantly got my attention.

It is a short book, consisting of 53 pages altogether  covering the topic in 9 Chapters, each chapter begins with an ambitious quote, inspiring the reader to move on .

Unleashing your Creativity.


In the initial Chapter , the author keeps the readers engrossed with different definitions of creativity as it is the process of materializing the idea into the product by tapping into your creative potential. He supports creativity  because to have fun without thoughts, thinking obstacles as opportunities to enhance the brain activity, nurturing new neural pathways and overall increasing the productivity.

Perfectionism, Procrastination, Fear, Anxiety, Guilt are the hurdles to the creative potential. They will not allow your Imagination to get working. Give wings to your Imagination. Get inspired and motivated by the sources of positive energy around you. your books, your parents.

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” 

                           ― Sylvia Plath.

Creativity Killers
Enemy of Creativity.

He also shares two methods of tapping the Creative Potential,

1. PIRI MODEL.

2. DRCBRI MODEL.

Both of them begins with drafting down all the thoughts and imagination, then constant editing and reviewing to bring out a unique product, asking the why's, where's in between. In the last chapter, he beautifully defines ways to remain creative in our capacity.

The essence of this short guide is to allow yourself to play with your Imagination and challenge your copy paste Lifestyle, grow your hunger to do something New, something Creative , something that is Different. Make it a fun habit of yours. Sooner or Later you will be on the pinnacle of Productivity.

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” 

― George Bernard Shaw


Imagination
Imagination is the beginning of Creativity.

You can purchase the book here

Monday, 13 April 2015

10 Tips to Spark Creativity in Kids

Asalamoalikum /Good Morning.

It is widely said that to be more productive spend time with kids because they have the unending flow of energy which make them never stopping for anything but the matter is how to mold and convert this force into a more productive and result oriented goals.It is a challenging task for the Guardians and Parents
Now here are a few tips to spark the creativity in the kids.


Happy Kids


  1. Make the children take the responsibility.Give them small tasks according to their age like collect clothes from the rope, help in bed making.
  2. Allow them to explore nature by themselves like take them to the nurseries and make them watch the gardener planting making the soil, help them feeding the birds.
  3. Encourage them to be physically active. Make them learn the exercise from  the beginning and practise in front of them daily.
    Creativity
  4. Read them autobiographies and life stories of creative people.
  5. Give them exposure of different situations like climbing a tree.
  6. Meet them people of different professions and take them to their  working  places.
  7. Allow them the chance to experiment randomly, provide them with the raw material.
  8. Nurture the habit to face the failures because its the one who will survive the drought.
  9. Raise the habit of saying sorry as it make them more conscious.
  10. Self accountability is the key to success as it will make them a  better person. 
  11.  
    Innovation