What will you create in your world today?



Genius Habits

Genius Habits

Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time

Do you ever say "I don't have the time to be innovative or creative"? Energy is the liveliness and force we need to sustain the creative process.

Art by Angela Blaha

Angela Blaha

The Unfinished Painting

What happens to art that never gets completed? Is it abandoned? On pause? Or does it serve a greater purpose for us to uncover?



Screen-Free Fun
Popcorn

Ira Verant's FREE! Popcorn Book

Doodling Popcorn Boosts Your IQ

Doodling, which involves sketching seemingly random patterns or shapes, is a form of spontaneous and subconscious creative expression. Contrary to the conventional belief that it hinders productivity, research indicates that doodling can enhance concentration and memory retention.

Creativity

Butterfly by Angela Blaha

Angela Blaha

Finding Your Voice and Revealing the Unseen

Art is more than an act of creation — it is a journey of becoming. Every brushstroke, every color, and every moment of self-expression is a step toward uncovering the unseen truths within ourselves and the world around us.

Profiles & Interviews

Profiles of Creative Empowerment

Profiles of Creative Empowerment

Pina Bausch and Leonardo da Vinci

Since I was in middle school, I have had a very synergistic relationship with vintage shops, garage sales and sidewalk peddler products. It's clearly a conversation with destiny: Goodwill represents a space where my imagination materializes.



InterACTive

Cookie Fortune Maker (CFM)

Cookie Fortune Maker Writing Prompt

The Dejitaru o mi kuji taipu, or The World's Oldest Microblogging Platform, rightly takes its seat in the history of social media! Play with the tool now to exercise your creative writing or to make your own printable fortune messages!

Positive PlayFULLness

Positive Playfullness

funmire

How to Play Every Day

Cultivating a playful mindset can transform the most mundane moments into new opportunities for joy and connection. When you approach everyday situations with curiosity, enthusiasm, and a willingness to try new things, you naturally open the way for play to enter into your daily routine.



Humor

Slouchy Card

Madam Bedazzle's Tarotble Readings

Slouchy Sock Card

The Slouchy Sock card bestows the wisdom to not give in to the urge to change your creative work too quickly. Learn from an accidental 20th century fashion trend made famous in movie singer Irene Cara says, "used dance as a metaphor for attaining anything in your life that you want to accomplish."

SoulCollage®

SoulCollage

SoulCollage® Prompt

Embrace Connection

Is there a part of you who insists on "doing it yourself" even though you could use some help? Allow it to speak. Allow it to tell you its story.

Children's Creativity

Fostering Creativity in Children

Fostering Creativity in Children

Nurturing Growing Creative Minds

That inner “Wow!” That tingle of excitement. That feeling of “Yes! That’s what it’s all about!” That’s the moment that makes me so thankful to be a teacher.



Writing

AI

Perfect Personal Essay

What will AI mean to the future of writing?

Thinking about what AI will mean to the future of writing, I felt the impulse to write a book on how important essays are and to beg you all to not succumb to the ease of letting some artificial entity take your voice, use your voice, and then dull your voice.

Creativity Coaching

Susan Ann Darley

Susan Ann Darley

Achieve Higher Levels of Creativity

"It's time for each person to own their creativity and use it to solve our challenges and heal the world." This consciousness-raising series explores opportunities to expand our awareness around the freedom and responsibility we have through our individual and collective creative power.


9 Modern Day Muses

Symbol of Lull

Modern Day Muses

Doing Nothing with a Muse called Lull

I have a secret for you. I have it from some excellent sources, yes, world renown people that, okay listen carefully: doing nothing is actually going to get you somewhere. Doing nothing can make you more creative.

More Muses

Melpomene

Invoking the Muses

Melpomene: Muse of Tragedies and Elegies

The Athenian muses were the nine sister goddesses of imagination, inspiration, and the arts in ancient Greek mythology. Melpomene is a guide for the lost; a dark-haired woman, clad in widow's weed who tells us to make a record of our experiences, to create new works of art to help ourselves express loss so we may be healed