Here is a simple quick tip for helping extend or bolster your everyday creativity.

Despite my best creative efforts, exercise is still one of the top ways to encourage creativity. Physical activity exercises the mind’s adaptability and increases hand-eye coordination; it also improves your mood. One of the quickest ways to exercise both your body and your creativity is through participating in a regularly changing obstacle course. The physical activity strengthens your muscles and the varying landscape or “obstacles” help expand your brain’s ability to solve puzzles quickly and efficiently, as well as boosting your creativity. A common trial method for exercising your creativity is switching your dominant side for a day. Try tossing and catching a tennis ball with your non-dominant hand for a while. Exercising your body and mind in this way will increase neural pathways used for adaptability and creativity. Go try it.

Yes, it feels odd, but stick with it until you can catch the ball or run the course efficiently, then switch activities. Keep your mind and your body on it’s “toes” and you’ll find yourself more ready to make quick decisions or come up with new ways to do things.

I just posted a couple shots taken from Owl’s Head Park in Brooklyn, looking west over the bay, near sunset. It was a very peaceful time and location with dragonflies buzzing around snatching up insects and children and dogs playing on the nearby hill. The ships in the bay were busy finishing up the day’s work and I watched them until the pre-rain fog finally rolled in fully blanketing their indistinct outlines in the distance.

 

 

Go check them out on PurePhoto: Ships in the West, Anchored in the Fog, and Fog Rolling in the West. Prints will be available within two days.