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Tuesday 20th October 2009
Last month I painted our backyard. (OK, if truth be told, I hired some guys to paint our backyard...) Choosing the colour was tricky and I'd put the whole thing off twice because I couldn't decide. Finally I found it, a washed-out pale verdigris, aqua, dirty green colour. All was well. Except that on the wall it turned into a very strange neon baby blue...
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Tags: thinking, creativity, tips
Thursday 1st October 2009
Every now and then a new book breaks through the mind-numbing plethora of self-help tomes in your local bookshop - Martin Seligman's Authentic Happiness was such a one. Already well-known as a founder of the Positive Psychology movement and the author of Learned Optimism and The Optimistic Child (both truly excellent), with Authentic Happiness Seligman lays out practical steps that anyone can take to create a happier, more meaningful life.
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Thursday 17th September 2009
Have you ever run out of ideas? Or become caught up in your own assumptions (about materials, time, markets, budgets, or...?) Or felt like having a simple structure to work through your problem with - instead of all that chaos in your head? Enter SCAMPER! It's brilliant.
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Tags: thinking, creativity, tips, scamper
Wednesday 2nd September 2009
I've written before about working with your strengths, but how do you FIND them in the first place?
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Tuesday 18th August 2009
About 6.5 million Australians belong to at least one online social media network, and two-thirds of internet users looked at other people's content on social networking sites during 2008. And it's growing, fast. It's not just about being social either, despite the popular name - businesses can use many of the tools to great advantage.
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Tag: tips
Tuesday 4th August 2009
You know how it happens...you have an idea, or think of a way to solve a problem then after working on it for a while, you get stuck. It's not happening any more, the ideas run dry and you panic. Familiar?
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Tags: thinking, creativity, tips, stuck
