So many of us live a life of routine. We drive the same way to work everyday, sit in the same chair with our morning coffee, listen to our favorite, familiar music.
If creativity is how you express what you see, what you feel, how you interpret the world around you, then, if you see something new, you might think about it in a new way and often, that will inspire you to think about other things in new ways, too.
I invite you to shake up your routine and change something about your visual environment so that you can begin to see with new eyes and experience your world in new ways.
Here are just a few suggestions:
Rearrange your furniture
Drive a different way to work
Switch out the art on your walls, or hang some new work
Eat at a new restaurant
Change the picture on your computer screen
Walk to someplace that you might normally drive to
Take all the pictures off of your refrigerator
Sit in a different chair at dinner time
Hang new photos in your office
Sit outside at a different time of day
Take out a piece of paper and write down one or two things that you will do this week to change how you see things around you.
Notice what happens.
I’d love to hear about it.
Feel free to share your observations below by clicking on the comments.
And if you’d like to guess what this is a picture of, enter your guess in the comments. Be sure to include your email address because I’ll be rewarding the first correct guess with a Spark the Heart journal and I’ll need to contact you for your mailing address!
Ruth, that is a beach stone on the sand at the beach… probably California coast by the mix of sand colors… San Diego area.
Angie, Congratulations! You are close enough. Actually it is a shell in sand. In California, yes! But at the Salton Sea, a little inland from the coast. Congratulations! And bravo for knowing your sand geography!
Dang, I was gonna guess a rock in the sand but I see someone has beat me to the punch! Great pic by the way!
photo by Marika. She has quite the eye.
That’s the center of a pansy blossom.
I like your imaginative eye, Mary!
I just looked at your photo and guessed immediately a drop of water on a rock, which very much looks like an eye staring out at you. I see that someone else guessed correctly already. I guess as a photo, it can be whatever you see in it, just like looking at the cloud formations!Fun contest!
Yes, it’s ALL about how each of us interprets and then expresses what we see! Thanks for sharing! And I keep meaning to call you. SOON!
I have to be honest with you. I couldn’t figure it out, but at first look I thought it was an ostrich eye??????
I love how people are seeing so many different things. Just goes to show you how unique our individual perspectives are!
I would have guessed it was the eye of a morning dove, but that would have been wrong, obviously.
I just read this post and so enjoyed it. I know that it is from a while ago but what I really saw was a grey wolf’s nose and his chest.
I see the grey wolf too! Cool!