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The other day my first daughter send this list to me because she thought I might need it)
So because of that I will write 33 articles about how to stay creative….blame her, if you like!
The latin verb creare means to create, to make, to produce, to give birth to, to prepare, to cause, to choose.
Why should we stay creative in our lives? In my opinion creativity is one of the most delightful resources human beings have and quite often we are not in touch with our creativity. For instance when we think either – or we have a lack of creativity. We always have more choices than two. At least we have 3 or 4 or 5 or 6….… a bunch of flowers of possibilities. Therefore I  think it is really worth to think more about than 2 choices and  stay creative. Being creative also means to stay in a flow, personal and collective to make old things new, make it another way than expected, more colorful, blissful, funny.

……But how is the question???
The first mentioned step is:
MAKE LISTS!
Honestly, when I first read this  I was disappointed. I am a compulsive list-maker and till now I believed my lists took me away of being more creative. They always need time to make them and then the list is telling me what to do. Being a slave of my lists I tried to get away from them. I am always making lists, mostly to do lists, or check lists.
But maybe these are only the wrong lists I am doing. Maybe I should better make wish lists, list of lists, travel lists, moon lists, heaven lists, down to earth lists, love lists…..and than forget them!
But after I heard making lists is supporting me to stay creative I only had to change my mind and being sure that the list were keeping me creative. I never thought the lists were responsible for activating my creativity……this was one of the good things of this list…it changed my mind.

In the past at least my lists kept me going on, they were guiding me and saved me some time to be creative later. Always later. Somehow the lists were clarifying me, that I was able to be creative again – this was worth it. And now is now. To be creative always means to be in the here and now, nobody is creative in the past, except we invent a new past time!
The other possibility is, also mentioned above, to make creative lists, not only lists what we want to get done, more of things we want to have or how many possibilities we have to get what we want…….
So don`t hesitate to be sure about this first item of the list: 33 ways to stay creative and make your lists, but be aware what kind of lists you are making and also to stop at one point otherwise you get lost in making lists, maybe creative ones but never start to do the things on the list, because you are the perfect list maker.
Anyway. Have creative fun!

You can find the german version of this article on:http://v-areainfo.styriartig.at/
Inventor of the list: Frederik Frede , www.frederikfrede.com
Creative Director and Entrepreneur with a portfolio at cargo. 
Founder of Freunde von Freunden and NoMoreSleep design studio and coffebar. 
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schools for creativity in austria: www.atelier-spielraum.at, www.mgt.or.at