1, Do what you are passionate about
Your life needs some balance to make sure your creativity can go on. Doing things that please you is the most effective, happy way of not only working but also living. The connection between passion and creativity can help you relax and fight stress while giving a boost to your creativity, for example playing instruments, collecting memorabilia and so on.
2, Create the right mood
In contrast with complete silence, music can be the boost that your mood and creativity need. When being frustrating because of lacking ideas or being unable to solve a problem, let music change your moods and keep yourself creative.
3, Get inspiration from other fields
It’s advised to look for innovation in different industries and niches because copying your competitor’s ideas may not lead to an outstanding outcome. You may start by answering or improving some questions such as: What are dominating businesses and the reasons? What and why are you most loyal to businesses? How can you transfer what worked for businesses outside your industry to your own?
4, Ask for feedback or suggestions
Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness, sometimes you are in the situation where to close to figure out a creative solution all by yourself. Friends, peers, and people from your personal network that earn your respect and trust have a unique skill set, experience and knowledge to give you a fresh perspective.
Even when you don’t use their advice, it may help you step 1 step closer to the innovative solution you need.
5, Inner peace
Sometimes your best ideas will come when you’re not wracking your brain trying to come up with the next great idea. It could be while you are in the shower or sleeping, which resting will help you be more productive and creative. Sometimes, your best innovative idea comes when you are not trying to come up with the next great idea. If you are lacking creativity, relax and let your brain do the rests.
6, Collab and learn
Curiosity is one way will lead you to creativity. Reading books or talking to experts are some of the ways will give inputs to start new ideas. Therefore, in order to boost the creativity, all you need to do may simply just collaborating with and learning from others.
7, Do a walkabout
It’s about 5-7 hours that is the average hours of a person sits every day. Stanford research showed that people walking more tend to be more creative than those not. All those it might seem small, however, walking is a step in the right direction.
8, The six thinking hats method
Sometimes, start all over maybe a straight, however, right step to take. Forget everything and start a new blank slate, which the assist of 6 different colours of thinking hats.
This process will give you different looks: things in a just the facts manner (white hat), things could be wrong (black hat), and more alternative, new ideas (green hat) for example.
You might come up with an outstanding solution by looking at a problem from several unique perspectives.
9, Come up with the worst idea
It might seem weird, but make a list of the worst ideas you can think up. Now, the right challenge to use your creativity to answer this question: What are the best features of these terrible ideas? You might come up with something creative that you can transfer over to your excellent idea.
