Do you realize that you are surrounded by ideas and inspiration? Any number of creativity “triggers” in your daily environment could provide the inspiration you’ve been looking for to solve the challenges you face.

One key to improved creativity is to cultivate mindfulness — the habit of looking more deeply at everything you experience with an open, inquisitive spirit. Creative people are intensely observant, paying careful attention to everything they think and hear. They realize that anything in their environment can serve as a catalyst to lead their thinking down new paths, leading to new insights and ideas.

A new, free tool to help you be more creative

To help you cultivate a more creative mindset, I have created a simple flowchart you can download and use whenever you encounter a stimulus that gets your attention. It includes a set of questions you can ask that will help you uncover creative ways in which you can use this trigger to inspire your thinking.

To access this valuable creativity tool, please fill in your e-mail address below and click “submit.” You’ll get immediate access to a single-page PDF diagram that you can save or print out. I hope you find it to be useful to supercharge your thinking and solve your challenges!