The new year is a great time to refocus and reboot using imaginative play. Whether you choose to stretch your creativity with visual arts or the written word, go play and see what magic presents itself.
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Collaborating and connecting: 2018 Tech Tools
Here at Curious and Clever, we're always looking for great tech tools to talk about. This year's picks, introduced at our PRConsultants Group annual meeting, featured apps that help us collaborate with co-workers and connect with customers and the media.
Bullet Journal: Analog system for the digital age
Apart from the Bullet Journal's usefulness as a planning tool listing tasks and events, he believes that keeping track of what you need to do enables you to focus, declutter and let go of tasks that aren't important.
Getting your head straight with Headspace
Here at Curious and Clever, we're always ready to check out the latest app that helps us to be productive and creative. Especially if it's an app that promises to calm the noisy voices in our heads; the stress that comes with deadlines and the ever-present demands on our time.
From Tome to Tumblr: find uncommon inspiration in a "commonplace book"
Commonplace books were the antidote to the flood of information unleashed by the printing press. Today, they serve as modern day indexes to education and inspire.
Mindmapping: Use your whole brain to boost creativity
For those of us who are visual thinkers, mind maps are useful tools that can help immeasurably in examining concepts, evaluating options and developing plans.
The beauty of Field Notes: wide open spaces
The beauty of Field Notes journals can be related to the beauty of wide open spaces: room to think and grow.