Everyone, it seems, wants to be more creative. But how? Here are few ways to spark the creative juices and kick off some creative adventures. Shake things up a bit—so that you become less dulled to the experiences you have:
- Write an anonymous letter to a younger person to save them from some trouble in their lives.
- Take down all the artwork in your house and replace it with blocks of rectangular color. Change the color each week and check out your response.
- Trade your couch with your neighbor’s couch for a month.
- Get a camera, some pads of paper and a couple of friends. Select someone on the street. Go up to that person and start taking pictures and asking for that person’s autograph.
- Buy some cheap flowers and hand them out to strangers during the day.
- Stop a stranger on the street and give him or her $10.
- Write poetry on the street corners with colored chalk.
- Secretly do something nice for a friend. Do the dishes, fold a load of clothes.
Do you have another idea? Feel free to add your thoughts below.
[Article first appeared in the August, 2010 issue of Family Times.]
