7 ways to help your creativity soar

When writers tell me they don’t have enough creativity to produce effective press releases or interesting stories for employee publications, I urge them to remember their childhoods.

Did they have imaginary friends? Could they make a face on their sandwiches with two olives and a curl of red pepper? Did they believe in the Tooth Fairy?

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We are all born creative. Some of us just lose it faster than others.

Here are seven tips to rediscover the creative core hiding inside of you:

1. Don’t sit at your desk. I don’t understand why we think writing is limited to sitting at a keyboard. This is no way to create; sitting is toxic to creative thought. Think away from your desk. Go for a walk. Go for a run. Go to a coffee shop. Go do something. Get moving. Now!