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Creative Individuality: Embracing, Celebrating And Enriching Your Creative Uniqueness By Kimber Fulcher
Whilst all forms of creative expression can be categorised into a particular medium or movement (and those that can’t simply invent and define their own), and anyone who creates has their pioneering predecessors and forefathers, nevertheless we are all different and unique.
A famous brand of ...
Creative Heroes: Enrich Your Own Creativity By Learning From The Creative Heroes You Admire By Kimber Fulcher
Consider this hypothetical question – If, from birth, we were never exposed to any form of creative influence whatsoever, would we be more, or less creative and original ourselves?
Since of course it’s impossible to accurately test, we have to accept that in fact we are influenced from the ...
I'm Not Sleeping I'm Creating! How Sometimes Less Activity Equals More Creativity By Kimber Fulcher
“Some people just sit at their desks and stare at a sheet of paper; others pace around. I personally like to lie flat on my back, with my eyes closed. A scientist working really hard may look very much like one who is taking a little nap.” - David Ruelle, Mathematical Physicist.
Many of us, ...
Your Creativity Portfolio: How To Invest Wisely And See Your Creative Assets Flourish And Grow By Kimber Fulcher
Years ago, the investment options in the financial world were fairly limited, and the best way to save and invest your hard earned money came down to a choice between a few different types of bank account, buying property via a mortgage, or, simplest of all, stuffing all your spare money in an old ...
Creative Identity: Isn't It Time You Ended The Pain Of Hiding Your "superman Secret"? By Kimber Fulcher
Many creative people, those who are recognised as having creative or artistic careers - actors, painters and authors for instance - wear their creativity openly like a big shiny badge proclaiming that yes they are someone for whom creativity is a central part in their life, and a major part of ...
Creativity: How To Make Yourself Happy By Kimber Fulcher
Sounds too good to be true doesn’t, an article about how to make yourself happy and feel good? Surely that’s the elusive goal we’re all striving for?
Well, it’s in fact easier to achieve than we may think, and sometimes we can get so caught up trying to be too clever, sophisticated or ...
Running With Stones In Your Shoes – Little Irritations That Can Become Big Drains On Your Creativity By Kimber Fulcher
Picture the scene. You’re an internationally renowned marathon runner, lining up for your biggest race of the whole season - The London Marathon. The competition is fierce, and the calibre of athletes alongside you on the starting line is higher than it’s been in years.
There’s only ...
Creative Day Jobs: 7 Key Reasons Why A Creative Day Job Can Be Great For Your Creativity By Kimber Fulcher
Whatever your creative talents, and however much you nurture them, the chances are, like the majority of creative people, you’re not able to make a full time living through them.
Maybe this is through not yet being in a place where you have enough exposure and opportunity to earn money from ...
Increase Creativity Today: How To Tap Into The Creative Freedom Of Childhood By Kimber Fulcher
As creative adults, for many of us one of the most difficult aspects of creativity is allowing ourselves the freedom to experiment and to be pioneering in our own way as artists.
All too often, whether we attempt to create a new language to write in, paint new forms with different materials, ...
Increase Creativity: By Developing The Curiosity Habit By Kimber Fulcher
As creative people, one of the simplest and most powerful things we can do to develop and maintain fulfilling creative lives is to develop positive habits.
A habit is a behaviour or pattern of actions, often done unconsciously, that we’ve developed through frequent repetition.
You may already ...
Increase Creativity With Simple Techniques: Positive Thought Blast By Kimber Fulcher
One of the most challenging aspects of maintaining a consistent creative output is to remain positive and to keep moving forward even in the face of creative resistance.
This resistance comes in many guises, and most of it from within ourselves. When we let our negative thoughts go unchecked, ...
Increase Creativity With Simple Techniques: Creatively Stuck? Use The Boxbreaker! By Kimber Fulcher
Being “Creatively Stuck” is a common issue for many of my Creativity Coaching clients, that feeling that you’ve tried everything possible to move yourself forward and make progress but still you remain in the same place.
The finer details of each person’s situation are different, but the ...
Enjoying The Creative Journey: Are Your Dreams Already Around You? By Kimber Fulcher
A significant part of coaching is about helping people identify and set goals that really matter to them, and that they’re motivated to achieve, and then supporting their progress towards these goals.
Often though, we can have our sights so firmly set on the goals in the long term future that ...
Creativity In Crisis? 5 Gentle Ways To Get Your Creativity Flowing Again By Kimber Fulcher
All of us who create go through phases of feeling blocked, stuck or uninspired. If we don’t create for a while, whether it’s 10 hours or 10 years, it’s easy to soon get caught up in negative mental cycles and paralyse our creativity further.
We’ve no doubt all experienced the paradox of ...
Sunshine And Showers? Why Your Creative Life Needn't Be As Unpredictable As The Weather By Kimber Fulcher
This summer in the UK we experienced a minor heatwave for a few weeks, and the general weather conversation significantly changed.
Comments just a few a weeks previously such as “I’m fed up with wearing jumpers” and “Is summer EVER going to arrive this year?” gave way to “I don’t ...
Creatively Stuck? Try Sitting With The Silence By Kimber Fulcher
Getting stuck, or being blocked in some way is something that all of us who are creative come up against from time to time in our creative efforts.
Whatever you wish to call it, there are many different variations of feeling we’re unable to create what we wish to create, and these manifest ...
Creatively Run Down Or Unwell? Call Your Creativity Doctor! By Kimber Fulcher
Most of use when we feel unwell or out of sorts in some way, will seek some kind of medical help, traditionally from our local doctor or General Practitioner.
But who do we turn to when our creativity feels sick or unwell? Whether we feel just a bit off our best or that the illness is terminal ...
For most creative mediums and forms of expression, there is some tangible way of measuring how much we create. By Kimber Fulcher
There’s something about the bulk factor that soothes us, reassures that yes we are creative, more importantly we are ACTIVELY creative, we go to our creative workspace, create huge and create often.
If we were the business of making garments, this we might see as akin to producing the reams of ...
Increase Creativity: New Creative Wardrobe - Where Would You Start? By Kimber Fulcher
Imagine that you lost all of your clothes in a domestic disaster like a fire. In some ways you’d probably be very upset at losing some of the garments that you love, make you feel good about yourself, and trigger off happy memories.
Looking at it from another perspective, there were probably ...
Increase Creative Self-belief: Overcoming The Danger Of Negative "snap-back" By Kimber Fulcher
Isn’t technology wonderful when it actually improves our daily lives?
An example is a product that’s used for the frames of many modern pairs of glasses. Flexon is a laws-of-nature defying material that has its own “memory”, allowing the frames to instantly return to their original shape ...
Who Exactly Has The Right To Chant Super Mantra Gayatri? By Kimber Fulcher
On the one hand, Gayatri worship is believed to give supreme benefits and is said to be the greatest of all Mantras. And yet on the other hand it is our misfortune that there are innumerable deluded opinions as far as the right to chant the Gayatri Mantra is concerned. Some believe that only ...
Needle Felting - How You Can Be Calm And Creative Felting Wool By Kimber Fulcher
It's hard to be calm in todays' fast-paced atmosphere. TV, computers, and video games stifle creativity by thinking for you. A needle felting hobby can be just the thing you need to calm you and allow your creative side to shine through.
What is needle felting? It is a dry felting technique. You ...
Nurturing Your Creativity By Kimber Fulcher
50 Ways to Have Challenge Your Mind and Express Your Creativity
1 Play a board-game: Clue, Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, Mind Trap, Chess
2 Cook a new meal
3 Creatively frost a cake or bake it in a special cake form (heart, bunny, race car, sorority letters)
4 Go hiking in a new park: find ...
What Is Brainpower? A Definition By Kimber Fulcher
What is brainpower? My dictionary simply says this: "Intellectual capacity." That's the entire entry. This two word definition leaves a lot of things unanswered. For example, does "intellectual capacity," and therefore brainpower simply mean IQ, or "intelligence quotient"?
I have another ...
Insights On Creativity By Kimber Fulcher
The preference to stay as we are right now is the norm rather than exception. The uncertainty and risk associated with new things and new ideas are the main reason for the avoidance attitude. We need to adapt and change to survive. Remaining status quo is not going to bring you anywhere. ...
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