7 ways to stimulate your creativity

Creativity encompasses everything we do in life. People always say that they are not creative but they are. Just because your creativity doesn't land in the form of paint gobs on a canvas, doesn't mean you are not creative. Words are creativity. Fashion is creativity. Arranging a room is creativity. Problem solving is creativity.

It's within you. You just need recognize it and practice it. And here are a few ways to stimulate it ;)

1.  List 10 alternative uses for an everyday item.
2. Take a new route the next five times you set out for a familiar destination. 
3. Pick a word at random from the dictionary and think of all the ways it might relate to a problem you are trying to solve. 
4. Doodle with your opposite hand. 
5. Explore connections between seemingly unrelated things. 
6. Routinely ask: What if? What else? Why not?
7. Make up your own impromptu word games.