The wonderfully talented Holly Becker of decor8, one of my long-time favorite blogs, has just posted the first in a new Creativity Series, and I wanted to share it with you. The series is going to be all about tapping into your own creativity, and actually doing all of those things you’ve just been talking about for years. In the first post, which you can read here (psst…a lot of the good stuff is in the comments section), Holly discusses mind mapping. This is a tool you can use to brainstorm and explore ideas in a free form way.
“2 Teen Girls Ballet at Sunset” from Clancy’s Classics
This week, our “assignment” was to do a mind map with the central idea being “What I Liked To Do As A Kid”. I think this is a nice way to get out of your adult mindset and remind you of your own creative potential. While I was working on my mind map I was surprised by many of the things I remembered from my childhood – I hadn’t thought about a lot of this ages! I did my mind map in my notebook, but I thought it would be a tad illegible, so I have partially recreated it here as a list:
- Sit on the front porch with my cat
- Play elaborate games with my best friend in our yards, mostly some version of Little House on the Prairie
- Create my own “Newsletters” and “Newspapers”
- Play fight with the boys down the street
- Walk around and around this big old tree in the park with my friend, planning all of the details of our fantasy ice-skating rink hotel (!) we would one day build
- Make rubber-stamped stationary
- Make forts in the living room
- Read
- Shoot hoops in the back yard
- Write stories about dolphins
- Draw pictures, mostly of horses and cats
- Play cards and board games
- Sit by the creek at the barn with my feet in the water
Thinking back on the creative pursuits and simple pleasures we enjoyed as children is a refreshing antidote to the hyper-technological age we are now living in, don’t you think? So, what did you like to do as a kid?
p.s. Don’t you just love that photo? It makes me smile.
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Sweet photo! I did the mind mapping from Holly’s blog, too. It was such an inspiring starting point! Thanks for sharing yours.
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