CM*P (The Best Of)

Welcome to the archives and listings of posts for CM*P – the Create Minded Program for enhancing my own personal creativity. This program has four compass points – Create, Connect, Study and Ideas.

An overarching methodology which simply features doodling or drawing called Doodle2DiscoverU works across CM*P. And in 2011 I began the Rock My Creativity 2011 Challenge.

CM*P – the Create Minded * Program

CM*P or the Create Minded Program is a self-development and planning program for  personal creativity development. This program contains four compasspoints towards individual and business creative development and productivity -

CM*P

Create Minded

Create Minded is one of the four compasspoints for CM*P

"Learn Creatively"

This area deals with creativity and self studies in general - the area where we get to learn, research and read, take courses and classes, study and apply learnings from books.

Create Minded Keyword : STUDY

Imagine Nation

Imagine Nation is one of the four compasspoints for CM*P

"Visions and Muses"

The thinking and musing behind the study and reading programs. This area includes meditation, visualisation exercises, relaxation, time-outs in nature, conceptual work, idea generation, and attendance to self-care. Me Time, Down Time - this area is vitally important to include in every project day. (Approx 10 % effort in this area).

Imagine Nation Keyword : IDEAS

Work & Shop

Work & Shop is one of the four compasspoints for CM*P

"creative productivity aka 'just do it' or 'gtd'"

The actual bulk of the day to days – the making and creating, designing and implementing, the getting things created – whether it be an art page, a journal, a blog entry, a certain amount of pages of a novel, or working on the planning and execution of a creative business. (Approx 50% effort in this area).

Work & Shop Keyword : CREATE

Connect Minded

Connect Minded is one of the four compasspoints for CM*P

"linked in contacts and pay forward"

The people side of things – social networking, associations, groups, critique groups, feedback groups,  and community.If you have a creative business, this area also includes the social marketing of your business via websites, and social media.

Includes paying something back to the world and community from your own creativity and skills also. (Approx 20% effort in this area).

Connect Minded Keyword : CONNECT

Click on each of the above compasspoints to learn more about each.

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Status and More

CM*P at this point, is under development, and being added to as the author of this site works through the system. As this is a personal program to enhance personal creativity through all aspects of life, CM*P includes aspects of productivity, self-growth, technology, and business practices.

Creativity For Life.

An overarching doodling system has been chosen to work across all compass points, and more can be read about this in the D2DU section.

An archive of all posts related to CM*P can be found in the third tab here.

Doodle2DiscoverU [D2DU]

Consisting of an overarching methodology to draw or doodle through all four compass points of my CM*P program.

‘Action through Drawing’

The D2DU methodology program has a number of posts associated to it, full of resources on different doodling types such as zentangles, creativity brain research and a large post on visual thinking. All these posts can be found in the next tabbed section on this page titled ‘Posts’.

Of course, not everything will be actioned via sketching and drawing. Many projects require much more than this, but for quick self-study and analysis work, planning work and other areas, sketching out ideas and thoughts works.

Rock My Creativity 2011 Challenge

Rock my Creativity is my overall 2011 new year’s resolution or goal. My successes, ideas, exercises, resources and possibly problems will be posted regularly on my course to make 2011 the year of Creativity via this blog, under the logo of the Rock my Creativity blog button.

Posts :

  1. Rock My Creativity 2011 Introductory Post (30 December 2010)
  2. Top Reads: Being Creatively Productive (31 December 2010)
  3. Small Bits of Creativity (03 February 2011)

CM*P Archive

This page contains an index of the archived posts related to the CM*P or creativity enhancement program. These posts contain both introductory information and specific resource listings (websites, books, and definitions) for the topics related to CM*P compasspoints. Of course, most of the posts on Create Minded also include relative information on creativity.

CM*P or the Create Minded Program is a self-development and planning program for my own personal creativity development. This program contains four cornerstones towards my own development and productivity -

  1. Create Minded – ‘learn creatively’ – the creativity and self studies in general – the area where I get to learn, research and read, do e-courses and courses, study and apply learnings from books. (Approx 20 % effort in this area). Study
  2. Imagine Nation – ‘visionals and muses’ – the thinking and musing behind the study and reading programs. This area sits with mediatation, visualisation exercises, relaxation, time-outs in nature, conceptual work, idea generation, and attendance to self-care. (Approx 10 % effort in this area). Ideas
  3. Work & Shop – ‘create productivity aka “just do it” or “gtd”’ – the actual bulk of my day to days – the making and creating, designing and implementing, the getting things created – whether it be an art page, a scrapbook layout, writing a blog entry, or working on the planning and execution of my business idea. (Approx 50% effort in this area). Create.
  4. Connect Minded – ‘linked in contacts and pay forward’ – the people side of things – social networking, associations, groups, critique groups, feedback groups,  and community. Includes paying something back to the world and community from my own creativity and skills also. (Approx 20% effort in this area). Connect.