Aggressive Creativity
and Big Hitting Ideas
Creativity: Shake
it up and spit it out!
When it's time for creativity, don't pussy foot
around, get aggressive! Aggressive creative thinking means you
set out your stall with an I-don't-give-a-damn
attitude. Sometimes you can feel too sluggish, inhibited
and non-creative to actually do any serious thinking. When
you feel like that, you have to biff-bash your mind with a
swift smack around the chops. You have to suck it up, stir
yourself up, and prepare to mentally charge the field. Here are
5 quick ways to get aggressive in your creative thinking so
that you can deliver hard hitting ideas that pack a punch:
1. The Power
Pant
Get yourself worked up into a creative rage. Like a dustorm
that whips up in the desert, you have to break through your
lethargy and lack of creative spirit. It's in there, buried,
dormant, waiting for you to give it a good poke in the ribs.
One way to get at your creativity, is to use the power pant
technique.
Stand up straight or sit up, put vigor in your
motion, like you mean it. Open your eyes wide, and breathe
in hard through your nostrils, so you can hear your breath
passing fast up through your nose. Suck the air in through your
nose. And then immediately let it out through your mouth. Use
your hands, in front of you, to simulate lifting the air in to
the top of your lungs as you breathe in and letting it fall
down and out as your breathe out.
Do 4 or 5 rapid breaths like that, thinking
"CREATIVE!" as you
breathe in. Stir up your passion.
2. The Warrior
Shake
Again, sit or stand with dynamic
energy in your posture. Raise your hands up so the palms are
sort of facing each other and slightly towards your face too,
fingers spread wide. Now imagine you are like a Maori warrior.
Roar, like a warrior facing the enemy, and shake your
arms, hands and fingers like you are displaying your rage and
strength at the enemy. If you are somewhere where a loud
AAAAAGGGGHHHH roar is inappropriate, then just make the face
and do the shake! Feel the energy buzz that floods your body
when you do this. Feel the power and determination: the
grrrrr!
3. The FU2 Attitude
Adjustment
A great way to bust through your
stiff, treacly state of mind is to cuss and swear. Nothing like
a good expletive or 30 to flip the lid off your thinking box
and get the juices running. Shakespeare was the master of
invective. He must have known the power of the cuss to unlock
creativity. So get like a
foiled Rumplestiltskin and turn the air blue with
your determination to flip the creative thinking mega-switch.
You are f**king creative and no bastardy f**ker is going to
stop you from spilling the super stuff! By now, your blood must
be zinging!
4. Keyboard
Abuse
If like me you do most of your thinking these days on a
computer, typing your ideas into a word document, or direct to
your blog, then you'll appreaciate the idea of keyboard abuse.
This just means, start typing and really pounding the keys with
your fingers. Angry, aggressive writing has power and dynamism.
You will feel like you can do anything, say anything, think
anything... and AHA! that is just the state of mind you want to
be in. So get bashing....
5. The Full Frontal
Attack
When you need ideas and your brain is mush, it's easy to
default into that soporofic can't-do-it mind state.
But now you know that you have to give that mindstate a swift
kick in the 'goolies' as soon as it shows it's face. There is
only one thing that will ever get you to the creative
ideas that you need. And that is to START... you have to
MOVE... get GOING ... BEGIN it immediately. Motion moves you
from the stuck place, to a slightly less stuck place, to a
place where you can move a little, and finally to a situation
where you are firing on all cylinders and your brain is as
fluid, creative, dynamic and innovative as the beautiful,
brilliant creative thinker that you know yourself to really be.
So go at it, attack your problems and challenges. Be willing to
have crap ideas, let the crap ideas get you started, get you
moving and get you to the great ideas.
Aggressive creativity is about stirring up your
energy. The more energy you have, the more verve you can
demonstrate. Live life with passion and flair. Use these simple
creativity techniques to shake it up and spit it
out!
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