This is such a creative way of talking about different methods to stay creative in your daily life.

Creativity – every entrepreneur needs it so bad and yet so few take the time to really work on conditioning the mind to be more accustomed to working at high levels of creativity. Watch the wonderful vid below and try to be a little more creative in your daily life!

29 WAYS TO STAY CREATIVE from TO-FU on Vimeo.

P.S. Here’s a link to the original Tumblr which inspired the really awesome video http://paulzii.tumblr.com/post/3360025995

One thing I’ve learnt by being unemployed by choice and to focus my time on working on my own personal projects is that when you have no boss or manager to check on you, discipline is key. Things have to be done and your time must be spent as efficiently as possible.

I was just spending some time thinking and reflecting on how I could work on my personal productivity and looking back, I realized that I probably was at my most productive when I had sufficient sleep and took the effort to start the morning with a good amount of exercise – two things I’ve been sorely lacking over the past few days.

And guess how I felt when I read Tony Schwartz’s blog post on “The Only Way to Get Important Things Done” when he wrote:

Over the past decade, I’ve built a series of rituals into my everyday life, in order to assure that I get to the things that are most important to me — and that I don’t get derailed by the endlessly alluring trivia of everyday life.

Here are the five rituals that have made the biggest difference to me:

• Abiding by a specific bedtime to ensure that I get 8 hours of sleep. Nothing is more critical to the way I feel every day. If I’m flying somewhere and know I’ll arrive too late to get my 8 hours, I make it a priority to make up the hours I need on the plane.
• Work out as soon as I wake up. I’ve long since learned it has a huge impact all day long on how I feel, even if I don’t initially feel like doing it.
• Launching my work day by focusing first on whatever I’ve decided the night before is the most important activity I can do that day. Then taking a break after 90 minutes to refuel. Today — which happens to be a Sunday — this blog was my priority. My break was playing tennis for an hour. During the week it might be just to breathe for five minutes, or get something to eat.
• Immediately writing down on a list any idea or task that occurs to me over the course of the day. Once it’s on paper, it means I don’t walk around feeling preoccupied by it — or risk forgetting it.
• Asking myself the following question any time I feel triggered by someone or something,: “What’s the story I’m telling myself here and how could I tell a more hopeful and empowering story about this same set of facts?”

Guess I really gotta figure out how to get enough sleep, exercise and get focused on work in the mornings if I want to make my dreams come true… before it all gets too late.

I’ve been kinda neglecting this blog for a bit because I’ve had quite a bit to do for the past week or so. Law reports, FYP preparation, coupled up with pretty bad time management on my end has kinda taken it’s toll on me.

But then today, I got this in gmail this morning, and it totally brightened up my day:

From: Dad

Dear Kevin,

Your youngest brother just wrote you this lettter in appreciation of the books that you bought him for his birthday.

Hope that you like it.

Love you.

Dad

Keane's Letter!

Amazing how an earnestly written, heartfelt letter can just brighten up one’s day. Go tell someone who you care about that you appreciate them today! The little things really can cheer one up!

I make it no secret that I love games from Blizzard Entertainment. I still remember the days when cousin Andrew used to ask me out to the neighbourhood cybercafes to enjoy multiplayer Starcraft – usually allied against a couple of AI-controlled-players. Since then I’ve played nearly every title they’ve produced – Diablo 2, Warcraft 3, World of Warcraft and now most recently, Starcraft 2.

They have been consistently producing top-quality computer games that stand the test of time, and today, as I listened to the founders of Blizzard talk about their humble roots as Silicon and Synapse (their original name as a fresh startup) and about how they persevered in looking for the most passionate and committed individuals despite having to constantly having to max out their credit cards just to make the payroll, I learnt quite a huge bit about creating real art.

Artists out there who dare to push the boundaries and create, I respect thee. Watch the video, it’s pretty darn awesome.