How To Be Creative

We often feel jealouse watching or hearing other people success stories. Why do they succeed and why don't we? Often we read, to succeed we need to be creative. But looking into yourself, you think that you will never be creative. You don't know how to be creative. You are not born to be creative.Wrong!! The fact is, creativity is very much like a muscle that needs to be exercised in order to consistently give out great results. How to unleash your creativity/ creative thinking?

You have to do some open-minded thinking to come up with creative concepts. But to actually make any money from your creativity, you need to have mix activities that includes exploring for new ideas and developing the best of them into practical applications. Here is a simple four step process for turning ideas into action:-

Initiate

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  In this step, you recognize a need of opportunity and ask questions that begin the creative process.

Imagine

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  In this stage, you engage in the imaginative, uninhibited thinking that taps into artistic side.

Invent

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  Now you need to get more practical. Take a critical look at all wild ideas and choose one or a few that seem most promising. Work on these ideas to see how to make them more practical and feasible.
  

Implement

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  Finally you need to complete the creative process by pursuing successful adoption or implementation of your new idea or design.