3 Decorating Ideas for Promoting Creativity
All Blog Writers Get Inspired in a Creative Space
As professional blog writers, we continually need to create fresh new copy. If our bonnets buzz with busy bees looking to sting our creative ability out of existence, we’re in trouble. We have to come up with new ideas every week for our clients — it’s what makes them stand out from a crowded marketplace.
Feng shui aside (that’s another blog topic), how you decorate your office or primary workplace can illuminate your creative spirit — or conversely damper your efforts at generating fresh ideas.
Try these tips to increase blood flow to your brain and boost your creative energy:
- Color Counts: Paint your office (all four walls or just one wall in your main work area) or decorate with colorful accessories to stimulate creativity.
- Pale Blue: You see pale blue in many schools because it’s known to have powers of creative stimulation. It’s also very calming, which can help you focus. Furthermore, believe or not, it’s an appetite suppressant — an added bonus when you’re dieting or just trying to work past lunchtime.
- Earthy Orange: Orange is a blood stimulator that increases sexual energy and brain power; when the two mental activities merge, blog writers, graphic artists and project developers get plenty creative. Orange also energizes and puts you in the mood to accomplish great things.
- Bright Yellow: When added in small touches, yellow boosts creativity, activates your memory recall and helps you concentrate. While dark yellows can cut off your creative juices, bright colors used as accent pieces give just the right incentive for new ideas.
- Helpful Reminders: Success breeds success and creative success breeds the same. Surround yourself with reminders that you are creative.
- All around your office, post pictures and copies of past campaigns or closings that make you particularly proud to remind you that you have what it takes.
- Decorate your office bulletin board with testimonials from clients and pictures of celebrations.
- Make a copy of your first check from your business and hang it up. It’s a ploy that’s been used in restaurants for years to remind owners how far they’ve come. The boost in confidence will boost your creativity and help to dispel doubt.
- Promote Collaboration: Oftentimes, the best bouts of creativity are sparked in brainstorming sessions with friend or partner. One person’s ideas spur the creative juices in another, leading you both to greater creative heights. Blog writers and project teams are particularly in need of brainstorming time and space.
- Create open spaces in your office where employees automatically run into each other on a regular basis.
- Make the break area clean, inviting and full with coffee machines, bowls of candy, flowers and snacks so that workers want to spend time there and are comfortable sitting around.
- Place meeting rooms and break rooms in places that allow plenty of outside light to enter the space. Light spurs creative juices and the outside scenery also serves as a kick-start to ideas, whether you’re looking at nature for ideas for blog writers or out on a busy street for fresh people perspectives.
Blog writers need inspiration and creativity. Blog writers need ideas. Even if you’re a lone writer, you can still help yourself be more creative. Here at Ray Access, we take creativity seriously. We depend on it, and our clients depend on us.
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