5 Ways To Bring Creativity into Your Business Meeting!

Looking for ways to bring color and life into your next business meeting? Check these tips:

1)Bring in a guest, someone who is not affiliated with the group, to offer "new eyes" to the business topic at hand. Getting an outsider to come in, will give a shot of new energy!

2)Do an early morning meeting, I mean, like 2A.M.! You can't beat the peace and quiet and sometimes solutions flow better before the city comes alive. Make sure you prepare in the evening before with a nap!

3)Usually meet in your office cubicle? Change the venue! On a nice day, meet in the park! Look into booking a room at your local library. Maybe, a member of your group will allow his home to be used. In other words, change the venue and bring a different "life" to the meeting!

4)Before the meeting, go around and ask everyone what they expect to gain from the meeting-listening to your co-workers' expectations might spark a new idea to come out of you!

5)Change break times! In other words,if you usually break after two hours( for a meal, etc.), hold off and break after four hours. Or break after one hour into the meeting! The idea is to cut new interval paths into the meeting, which will lend itself to a freshness, a brain jolt!

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Feeling uptight? Pull out the beads,clay,tile, glue..

Crafting is a fun and exciting stress buster. Take your pick of a multitude of projects! Release tensions as you weave blankets, make earrings, paint, sew, mix perfume concoctions...the list is endless. Use the internet to find your pleasure. Pick an old-time favorite from your childhood or try something new!

Just the other day I was in a well-known craft store, picking up some beads, and just being surrounded by all the glitter, colored paper,dyes and buttons was lifting. Using your hands to create, connects you to spirit.

The act of creating/crafting interrupts a humdrum day, brightens your mind from dark thoughts and renews your soul. How good it feels to show off that handmade masterpiece and say,"I made it MYSELF!

Taking a mini-vacation is a stress buster!

When stress is allowed to build up, it opens the door for the enemy to come in and destroy. To alleviate stress, we must find effective and low-cost ways to relax. Short on time? Little funds to spare? Why not try a mini-vacation?

Designate a weekend out of the month for your mini-vacation. A few ideas to explore include taste- testing at a winery, visiting a museum and/or zoo in a neighboring county, signing up for a walking expedition through your town. For those summer months, how about a jazz cruise? Is it Autumn already? How about picking apples in the country orchard?

These ideas for mini-vacations are inexpensive as compared to the cost for a 3 to 4 week getaway! If you have to save up for these trips, do it a little at a time. The results will be well worth it. Come back from your mini-vacation refreshed,refueled and ready to knock out any challenge that faces you!