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Tapping into Your Super Creative Power
Do you consider yourself creative? How about super creative? Most people may not think of themselves as creative, but I believe that everyone has the potential for great creativity. They just need a little understanding and practice.
Think of two parts of the mind: the conscious, and the subconscious. The conscious is the part that thinks. It’s the part that you are aware of. The subconscious handles everything else. Your bodily functions, sensory input, memories, feelings, associations, and more are all handled by the subconscious.
The subconscious is much more powerful than the conscious. The subconscious handles thousands of things every minute. The conscious mind can only focus on one. Even when you think you multi-task, you are actually switching your focus very quickly between different things.
The real power of creativity lies in the subconscious. Your creativity comes out of all the things you are not aware of — memories you don’t remember, things you have seen but have not noticed, and feelings within you that naturally occur. All of your new great ideas are lying inside of your subconscious, right now. The trick is in figuring out how to access them.
Most people have a lot of ‘gunk’ (no, that’s not a scientific term) inside of them. The first step towards getting to that creative subconscious part is to clear that gunk out of the way. So how does a person do that? There are many ways, but here we will talk about two common ways: meditating and Journaling.
Meditation has the reputation of being mystical and religious. For our purposes, meditation is just sitting in silence. This sounds simple, but it is very difficult. In our society we are constantly bombarded with input — TV, radio, the Internet, other people, etc. As a result, we never sit in silence with ourselves. When you first meditate, your mind will race. These thoughts are what’s in your conscious mind, and as long as they are there you are not getting in touch with your subconscious. The key here is to relax and let those thoughts go. This will seem impossible at first, but practice it. Start small, with 5 minutes a day, and work your way up.
Journaling is similar to meditating in that you are trying to get past conscious thoughts. Journaling is simply writing your thoughts down. Unlike keeping a diary, though, the kind of Journaling we are talking about it is free flow writing where your pen never stops moving and you don’t care about what you write. When you start, it is ok to write ‘I have nothing to write’ over and over until something comes up. Don’t censor yourself, and don’t let your pen stop. It is best to journal in the morning, before your conscious mind has been filled with events of the day. Journaling should be done by hand, not on the computer. When you write, try to fill three pages. The first page or two will be basic conscious stuff you need to get out of your mind. Filling three pages helps get past all that.
For a good deal more on Journaling, read ‘The Artist’s Way’ by Julia Cameron.
If you want to start tapping into your creativity, start clearing out your gunk. Start doing some meditating (sitting in silence) or morning Journaling everyday. It won’t have an immediate effect, but over time it will make you immensely powerful.
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The Marvelous World of Metaphors
Recognize metaphors from every angle and round up more insight into your own innovation. Nobody can do it better than you can!
A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that means one thing is used to describe an object or ideas to which it is not literally applicable — a ship is said to plow the sea.
Denise Shekerjian
Webster defines Metaphor:
The application of a word or phrase to an object or concept, which it does not literally denote: in order to suggest comparison with another object or concept, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”
A figure of speech founded on resemblance, by which a word is transferred from an object to which it properly belongs to another in such a manner that a comparison is implied though not formally expressed, thus, “that man is a fox” is a metaphor; but “that man is like a fox,” is a simile or comparison.
Whenever we explain or communicate a concept by likening it to something else, we are using a metaphor.
Tony Robbins, Awaken the Giant Within.
Don’t let bad metaphors be a part of anyone’s master plan. Especially yours! Change your metaphors to a process of renewed awakening.
All of us and most businesses when advertising use Metaphors.
“Get right to the top and reach out!” Picture a beautiful woman mountain climber, reaching out with outstretched arms on the top of a snow-capped mountaintop.
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Metaphors are common groups of words, which contribute a punch to a meaning by association.
There are different ways of defining metaphors. For instance dictionaries explain it as a word or a phrase to illustrate a real thing or action in its relationship to something else.
In our capacity to illustrate the importance of metaphors in creativity we are going to use them in association as related to the qualities which are attributed to creative people. According to most authorities creative people have the following characteristics. But don’t we all have them? We hope to share ways in which you can use them to initiate your interpretation in the transformation of your own life.
· Innovative ? Ideas — Change
· Originality
· Diversity — Versatility — flexibility ? resilience
· Humorous
· Aware,–Focused–Committed
So let’s go and see how we can apply some of these metaphors to each of these characteristics as applied to creativity. It is interesting how metaphors can stimulate thinking into so many different avenues by association. Applying your own interpretations to metaphors can lead to a remarkable world of similarities in your own thinking and association to incredible dimensions.
We are all familiar with the everyday usage of popular metaphors such as:
“Do you see?” “When you can see through the Hype!” “I’m bursting at the seam!” “The eyes of the customer.” Am I on a Wild Goose Chase?” The list is endless.
Let’s start our journey into the exhilarating “constellations of creativity.”
Ideas, Innovation, Change. Freshness.
“No idea is more than an imaginary potency, a mushroom cloud (destroying nothing, making nothing) rising from blinding consciousness.”
Saul Bellow, The Bellarosa Connection.
Think of what Saul means by imaginary potency? Doesn’t our imagination rule everything? You can interpret this in many ways but one can imagine a mushroom in our minds, stimulating our thinking into an expansive mushroom of thought. For instance, another perception of mushrooming may be illustrated by the enormous mushroom effect of the atomic bomb rising into creative explosive productive ideas. Aside from the devastating effect of the atomic bomb visualize only beneficial ideas for mankind, instead of destruction. What is your interpretation?
“In the mind-world ideas are the indestructible elements which form the jeweled constellations of the interior life.”
Henry Miller “The creative life”
Can you picture one idea leading to a constellation, of multiple ideas to hold sky full of them? One idea of building on the other leading into “Who knows what?” Notice even another metaphor “Who knows what?” Is used to explain another thought!
“Here,/in the rule of my life/the objects keep changing.” Anne Sexton, “The room of my life”
One of the main characteristics of creative and innovative people is their ability for flexibility and change. In our world that is dramatically changing so rapidly isn’t it exciting that we can be a part of it? We are living in one of the most exhilarating eras for creative changes in all aspects of our lives. Thankfully most of them are good. Think of ways in which you can become more flexible, resilient and adaptable? Is the room in your life opening doors and windows to let your inner self out?
“Luck never gives, it only lends.”
Anon, Swedish proverb
What are you doing to stimulate the luck in your life? Are you ready for success? Or are you afraid of success? Many times we don’t think about the actual fear some people have of success. Think hard about it!
“All owned the affairs of men hang by slender thread.”
Ovid “El Ponto”
One can relate this metaphor with simple events, changes, and incidents and just about anything that can make the slightest change in our lives to greatness or despair. Thinking of the slender thread can remind one of the metaphor, “The Sword of Domacles” when his King, in order to remind Domacles how precarious his position in life was at the Palace. At a banquet in honor of Domacles, the King placed a sword directly over Domacles head, hanging by a few horsehairs. The implication, “Just a reminder of who is really the boss!” Couldn’t anyone of our simple deeds of kindness be that simple strand of hair leading to the turning point in our lives?
Originality
“They sun themselves in the great man’s light, and feel it to be their own element.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, speech “The American scholar,” Harvard college, Aug. 31, 1837. (They as the masses and the herd)
Isn’t it interesting how Emerson conveys the thought that most people in this world will bask in the accomplishments of all those marvelous creative and innovative risk takers? It’s a wonderful experience instead of “following the leader, to being the leader.” A good feeling is when you are the contributing mentor and “the masses and the herd” bask in your contributing greatness to their dignity and welfare? What’s wrong with you being their best coach?
“And this I swear by blackest brook of hell,/I am no pick-purse of another’s wit.”
Sir Philip Sydney, “Sonnet 74″Astrophel & Stella.
It appears somebody accused him of pilfering an idea as many other writers, artists, coaches and just about everybody else has borrowed from somebody else. When Dad belonged to the National Speakers Association, he conveyed to us a common statement. “When the speaker borrows a quote or idea from one speaker, that’s stealing but when he borrows from a whole group of speakers, that’s research!”
We should be grateful that we can contribute to somebody else’s creativity by the letting them copy from us?
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Diversity
“Every human being is a colony.”
Pablo Picaso’s Epigraph
The uniqueness of metaphors is the meaning it has only to you and what perceptions it conjures in your imagination!
Jog your memory as to what the colony of your life is? What makes up the different colonies within your life that stimulates the different worlds of your imagination. It could be family, associations, work, hobby or just about anything that is empowering and having that phenomenal, enrapturing and energizing effect in your life?
What does this overused metaphor still mean to you? “Variety’s the spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.” William Cowper, “The Timepiece” What type of variety do you have continuously adding to wonderment and resourcefulness?
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Flexibility
“The rulers (in Japan) our politicians and large businesses. The ruled our everyone else, the “Grass people,” so apathy termed because they bow in whatever direction the wind blows.”
Reiki Hatsumi
Are you one of the “Grass people?” Are you one of the media junkies who let’s the newspapers, TV news, Internet- ions, headlines and all the other distractions vying for your mind, direct you to the way their wind blows? Think of the enormous possibility of flexibility you can choose to have?
“Of course you don’t change a persons nature you retouch it.”
Andre’, “Home Port Maurois”
Isn’t it nice that you can still make choices?
You can choose to change.
You can choose to grow.
You can choose to be your own person.
You can choose love.
You can choose to be creative.
You can choose all of your own choices.
“You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes, Connie, without stirring it up from the bottom. That’s where the bitter dregs are.”
Agnes Sligh Turnbull, The Rolling Year
Have you ever thought of all of the bad memories, experiences and episodes in your life that you may be stirring “The bitter dregs” each day that detract from your potential creativity and innovation?
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Humor, Wit
“A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps as we walk the tight rope of life.”
Anon
Humor is a learned experience. Learning to laugh can be taught to anyone. It only takes a change of your perception. Humor is one of the chief characteristics, as related by some authorities, stimulating our creativity and innovation. Humor is also great for your health. It not only stimulates your immune system but it also energizes our brain cells with those funny little chemicals that make life more interesting.
“Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.”
Noel Coward
“Humor is really laughing off a hurt. Grinning at misery.”
Bill Mauldin
“Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.”
Elsa Maxwell
Awareness
‘Voynitsky: We used to think of you as almost superhuman, but now the scales have fallen off my eyes and I see you as you are.´
Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya
Think of yourself with whatever blinders you have covering your eyes? Each of us perceives everything differently. Of course, this difference in our perception is what makes us so unique.
But depending on our background and images planted by sources even unknown, we may have scales, like some animals, over our eyes. Removing these scales over our eyes creates our awareness to the awakened mind.
“On the surface, life is much the same as before?But it is through-the-looking glass world.”
Jeffrey Schmalz, The New York Times, December 20. 1992
Some awareness leads to an allusion as to how we see our world. How do you see your world?
What is wrong with creating beautiful allusions of what some people call the “Real World?”
We all experience the awareness of our “Real World” daily but why not change your world?
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
Gandhi
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How To Let The Subconscious Mind Do The Creative Work
From time immemorial mankind has wished for an Aladin’s lamp, which would make wisheds come true.
The closest thing to this magic lamp is the subconscious mind. The “genii” of the subconsious mind will work for you if you follow a certain process.
How can we trap the subconscious mind into a great deal of our creative work for us.
Here are eight tested ways.
1. Give yourself a motive.
The subconscious mind works at its creative best when you have a purpose.
2. Make a date with your subconscious mind.
Prod it with definite orders as to what you want, but don’t tell it what methods to use.
Let it use its own methods.
Example : “Genii, at 2 p.m. tomorrow, I want you to tell me just how I am going to sell 3000 crates of oranges to hard boiled Mr. Mack.” It will help the genii if you have obligingly collected on cards all the pertinent information about Mr. Mack likes, dislikes and hobbies. This will make it easier for the genii to figure out the best approach.
3. Always keep a pad and pencil at your bedside.
You never can tell when the subconscious mind will suddenly come up with an idea. When it does, write it down. Always carry a small notebook or pad with you.
4. Write every idea down.
When you first get an idea, don’t try to figure out whether it’s good or bad. Write it down. “The faintest ink is better then the best memory.” This is particularly true of creative ideas.
5. Don’t be critical of your ideas too soon.
You have a problem that can’t be solved by cold logic. It needs the spark of imagination. But the moment your subconscious mind tries to throw out a spark, your conscious mind says : “That idea is a lemon. It will never work.”
In the early stages of the creative game, the conscious mind must be told to shut up. Nothing will cause the genii to scamper away so much as being told by the conscious mind that their ideas are worthless.
6. When stymied, stop for a while.
Of course, most creative problems can’t be solved overnight. After you had a creative session with yourself, it’s usually best to stop trying to think up any more ideas. This stage is called the incubation.
7. Keep yourself motivated.
Whenever you have temporarily abandoned seeking an answer to a problem, the uncounscious mind should have its orders : “This is important to me. Don’t give up the ship. Keep on working on this idea while I sleep and rest.”
8. When the heat of creation is gone
put your work aside for later evaluation.
Just as a period of conscious thinking and gathering facts usually precedes a creative idea, so a period of conscious thinking should eventually follow it. This is the period of evaluation.
Creativeness is wonderfull. But it is only half the battle. The other half is evaluating your idea or hearing another’s opinion of it.
Sometimes an honest opinion may spark a new idea.
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How To Entertain A Thought
After studying scores of great thinkers like Leonardo Da Vinci, I think I’ve stumbled upon what really set them apart from the rest of the folks living (and thinking) at the same time.
It’s remarkably simple. They learned how to entertain a thought.
Aristotle said, “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Hmmm. To entertain a thought without accepting it.
We need to do that. Everyone needs to learn how to be good host or hostess to new ideas. In fact, our goal should be to become the Martha Stewart of mental entertaining!
What if you treated a new thought like a guest?
It’s easier to think about mental entertaining if we put together a to-do list, just like Martha. Here it is:
#1 Make the first move. First of all, you issue an invitation. Nothing fancy. You don’t have to make any major investment or lifelong commitment. You’re simply inviting this person in.
It’s the same with initiating the entertainment of an idea. You might see a quote on the side of a bus somewhere, and decide you’d like to explore that concept more deeply. Or, maybe you find yourself bumping into the same topic all the time, and so you make up your mind to learn more about it. Either way, you need to be ready to initiate the process. Don’t hide–you won’t meet new ideas if you scurry away whenever the doorbell rings.
#2 Prepare. Uh-oh. Your house is a mess. You’d better do some cleaning. You’re not really trying to impress, but hey, you could certainly do some sprucing up and get the place looking neat and inviting.
Prepare for a new thought in the same way. Make some space in your mind to think about something new. According to Deepak Chopra, the well-known author on health and longevity, the average human has 60,000 thoughts a day. Pretty impressive? Well, here’s the kicker: 57,000 of those are the same ones you had YESTERDAY! Now that’s some serious clutter! Get rid of a few of those dusty old thoughts and make room for new ones.
#3 Offer a warm greeting. When your new guest arrives, be warm and inviting. After all, you’re hoping to start a friendship. Put your best foot forward.
It’s the same with an idea. If you face it with skepticism, fear or detachment, you won’t be entertaining it for long. You’ll be eyeing your watch, yawning, or looking for a way to end the discussion early. You’ve got to be open and full of anticipation to prepare an environment in which new ideas will be explored and integrated fully. Just as it’s no fair making lame excuses or having your friend call to interrupt the visit, it’s also cheating to cut out too soon when it comes to entertaining an idea.
#4 Make introductions. This is the big one. You would certainly introduce your guest to everyone at the party, with a special effort to connect them to those with whom they may have something in common.
Any new idea you consider will be more likely to be welcomed if you actively and intentionally introduce it to your other ideas and interests. Look for unusual and inspired pairings. How does it fit? Where does it fit? DOES it fit? You won’t know until you try.
Picture Leonardo Da Vinci’s mental entertaining. His new idea, Human Flight, arrives, and immediately Leo sets about introducing him to others. “Human, meet my good friend, Engineering, and his lovely wife, Fabric Design. Oh, and have you met Bird Anatomy? She lives just around the corner from you. Oh, Dr. Entomology has arrived! Listen, Dr. E is absolutely brilliant, but a bit hard of hearing. Ask her about her recent work on the wings of insects! Now, you all make yourselves comfy and I’ll go get some more wine.”
What happened at that party? Leonardo threw these ideas together, and BAM! What emerged was the idea for a perfectly designed parachute as well as a remarkable helicopter–hundreds of years before the Wright brothers started building their flying machines! Talk about a soaring success! Don’t you wish you’d been there?
#5 Offer the best seat in the house. You usually sit in that nice chair there by the fireplace, but when a special guest comes over, you graciously offer it.
When you are entertaining a new thought, give it the consideration it deserves. Every time you think a new thought, your brain is actually creating a new neural pathway. It’s like a jungle in there, full of nerve endings and ganglia and all kinds of connections. Help it along. Make it comfortable.
Once you’ve considered an idea, that pathway is there. All you have to do to keep it “live” is to keep going down that path often enough to clear the trail, but not so often that it becomes a rut.
#6 Listen, inquire, and show interest. Ask questions. Dig a little deeper. Find the connections to other people, places, and activities. Learn as much as you can about your new idea.
#7 Relinquish control. Just like when you introduce guests to each other, you should not try to control the outcome. Some guests might hate each other on sight, while others click instantly. People might argue, or a married guest might sneak off to a back room with someone other than their partner. Anything can happen!
That’s not up to you. You’re having this party to offer an opportunity for people to connect. Make introductions, insert a few comments, smile and acknowledge everyone, but for the most part, just let things happen. Don’t direct the flow of ideas.
#8 Leave room for future possibilities. Even if you decide this guest of yours is insufferable, you don’t want to burn any bridges. Be gracious, and be glad you were excellent enough to offer the invitation.
You’re not going to like every idea that comes your way. And you might not find any other interest or idea that connects with it initially. That’s fine. You need to develop the ability to recognize useful concepts and distinguish valuable and valid ideas from those lacking a strong foundation. That’s what critical thinking is all about.
But you also need to file that idea away so that you can look it up if and when you DO meet a likely candidate for another gathering of thoughts.
There is a great deal of room for different styles of mental entertaining. Maybe you’re best at dealing with only two ideas at a time, or maybe you want to throw a huge bash and welcome all comers.
Entertain in whatever style suits you. Tete-a-tete or bacchanal–it doesn’t matter, as long as it’s happening.
Learn how to entertain a thought. With a little effort, you’ll become a perfect host or hostess to new ideas that come your way. And guess what? You’ll have no hangover, no cleaning up, and no regrets.
Party on!
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Overcoming Artists Block (part 2)
Once you are ready to start working again you will know it instinctively. All artists go through periods of ‘creative block’ – it’s normal, but after one such episode there are ways of stimulating ideas and getting the creative juices flowing again.
Visit your local library and take out books that cover materials, techniques and subjects that are not familiar to you. If you are a watercolour artist, why not try oils for once? If you paint large acrylic abstracts, would it be possible to try soft pastels on a smaller scale? What results could you achieve by doing something completely different to what you’re used to?
What about trying collage or mixed media work? Take photos of your neighbourhood, family or friends. Local places of interest, the countryside, the seashore, the city. Manipulate your photos on your PC and print out as digital art. Use the images, either natural or manipulated as collage pieces. It is so therapeutic cutting pieces and sticking them down. Use a range of materials to finish your work.
Instead of going straight back to paintings or drawings on normal scale, why not create some miniature pieces? How about greetings cards? White card ‘blanks’ are very easy to source. How delighted family, friends or customers would be to own an unique hand painted card.
Try drawing for once instead of painting, if that’s your usual medium, or vice versa. Fill a sketchbook with small quick sketches. You could even time yourself. Three or five minutes maximum for each sketch.
When you’re ready to go full size again, try loosening up your technique, by again setting a time limit for each piece of work you create. With a deadline to meet, you will speed up and loosen up. Try not to be precious with your art. Be quick and bold – see what happens.
Paint upside down. Start a new piece, then half way through turn the paper or canvas round 90 degrees. This is a great technique for abstracts. Use new colours – let them flow into each other. Splatter colours onto the wet surface. If you like, you could turn the work once more to finish. What a great way to create ‘happy accidents’.
Paint or draw to music. Use only your emotion to make marks on the surface of your support. Play your favourite rock, pop or classical music, let the melodies and rhythms wash over you, influencing how your artwork evolves. I often paint to ‘Smile’ by Brian Wilson …. and boy do I get inspired!
What about painting left handed if you’re a right-hander and vice versa. Trying to do a representational work with your weakest side will produce art that is still yours, but will have a completely different edge to it. Challenging and great fun to do … if you have the discipline!
Finally, once you get back into full flow, remind yourself of all the artwork you have created successfully. How appreciated you are by your customers. Read their testimonials. Feel that glow again, when you realise that your creativity block was only temporary and that there are fans out there just waiting for you to release some wonderful new artwork into the arena.
Gail Miller is a professional artist whose artwork is a visual feast of colour and fun. Her fascination with bold colours and fluid, expressive shapes and line are evident in funky abstracts, sinuous nudes, vibrant still life paintings and lively townscapes. Visit her website at http://www.gailmiller.com
In between Luck & Effort
I have one magical thought, lets see it more closely. Just look around & try to find out peoples who are successful, in sense of reality, with no efforts. You will find none.
Now look around again & try to explore the peoples who are successful by morality of their efforts, and this you will find many.
Their distinctive efforts have certainly taken them ahead, may be in changeable degree.
People who believe only in luck shall be able to see opportunities in the mirrors.
People believing in efforts creates opportunities irrespective of circumstances, favorable or unfavorable to make a real picture / image. Luck is an unknown fruit which will we recieve unexpectedely after strong efforts.
So in between luck and efforts you must focus on the efforts most of the time.
I focus to my energy to get what I want; I know efforts is the right way, Luck wonders around the right way.
About The Author
Nilesh B Gore
Graphologist(Handwriting Analyst) & SW. Eng.
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In between Luck & Effort
I have one magical thought, lets see it more closely. Just look around & try to find out peoples who are successful, in sense of reality, with no efforts. You will find none.
Now look around again & try to explore the peoples who are successful by morality of their efforts, and this you will find many.
Their distinctive efforts have certainly taken them ahead, may be in changeable degree.
People who believe only in luck shall be able to see opportunities in the mirrors.
People believing in efforts creates opportunities irrespective of circumstances, favorable or unfavorable to make a real picture / image. Luck is an unknown fruit which will we recieve unexpectedely after strong efforts.
So in between luck and efforts you must focus on the efforts most of the time.
I focus to my energy to get what I want; I know efforts is the right way, Luck wonders around the right way.
About The Author
Nilesh B Gore
Graphologist(Handwriting Analyst) & SW. Eng.
Email : ng411002@rediffmail.com
Web : http://www.brendynamics.com/gr
Country: India, Ms
Copyrights: © Nilesh B Gore.
Achieving Limitless Creativity
There are many out there who wish to help individuals achieve limitless creativity. Such a noble endeavor to help fellow man; some creativity coaches are indeed working to set out simple principles which can help any individual get to that space. They are stead fast in their mission. One such gentleman I recently met was Dr. Nick Arrizza. He said;
“It is my hope to bring individuals back to an experience of their true and limitless creative abilities and to their human essence. Sadly this has been lost and much to the detriment of the human endeavour.”
I have rarely run across such a man on a mission to heal the world. So I decided to read his many articles and step-by-step methodology about how one might go about this. He has several papers on these websiteas;
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Well indeed. This is one major issue and important factor, which has impeded human civilization, a repeating one in fact which needs to end for us to get to the next step, I could not agree more. There are other factors as well. As society gets more complex without a major increase in biological evolution, we are stuck with an animal inside trying to mask our innate tendencies and still function as a whole and contiguous grouping. Problems arise when we train humans to do, instead of think so they can operate and function in the present period of incremental complexity. Some cannot do it. Not because they do not have the genetic material to do it, but because we have pre-conditioned them to be worker bees instead of thinking souls. Indeed it is necessary to have folks monitor the flows of the system without screwing it up using a protocol of known safety and reliability in the infrastructures and flows of the system. But we also need those who create the system, revamp it and realign it when it is too unnecessarily complex and fails to serve us. For instance: Health Care, legal, government leadership, educational system, etc, etc. These are opinions and observations entirely of my own, upon reading Dr. Nick Arrizza’s works. It might behoove you to read his works to see where your mindset is.
Dr. Arrizza is an interesting person with some simple formulas which could help millions if not billions of people in the world come to a better understanding of their surroundings and minds and in doing so be more creative, productive and achieve such happiness as is their innate desire to achieve. At least this is the feeling I get when I read his articles. If he can do that for the world; Imagine what he can do for you? Think about it.
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WhyYouNeedThatPerfectName.com!
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet”
-Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
A rose perhaps but not your domain name!
Welcome to the dotcom bubble! Here, any successful e-tailer should tell you that there’s more to a name than just the name itself. This article serves precisely that purpose ?against the backdrop of quality domain naming strategies and styles, auctions, speculators and court conflicts, to convince you why your online endeavor needs that perfect domain name.
There’s no point in coming up with that absolutely fabulous idea for online selling plus a perfect site to launch from, as long as you don’t have ‘the’ name you need. Choosing a name that will eventually contribute to your brand equity, profits, internet marketing and above all -your online credibility, shouldn’t be done haphazardly. Especially, since it’s so easily purchased (for a low startup capital), easily maintained and one that, if you choose, may be disposed off at a substantial amount. Intentionally or otherwise, your domain name becomes your de facto brand name, a location or an experience your visitors relate to in the long run. Even if you plan to sell it later on to prospective buyers, it is only an asset! Your challenge is to come up with that one name to funnel visitors through.
Brandmeisters today seem to understand the significance of site names, especially since the emergence of a number of me-too sites. Like a Washington Post reporter put it ? “feature for feature, service for service, discount for discount, even annoyance for annoyance”, a number of sites may turn out to be a close match to yours. Quoting Rebecca Saunders, author of the Big Shot series, “Names have to sound fresh and new even if the site duplicates one already on the net. Names should stir the imagination or otherwise gain the surfer’s attention. Further site name should be as simple as possible, they should be believable, and they should be easy to pronounce, pleasing to the ear, easy to spell and therefore easy to look up on a search engine.” Here’s more on building your handle.
The ‘aha’ name
Domain name consultants will serve you innumerable dos and don’ts on internet domain naming ? a feat that could leave you grumbling with limited choices. Personally, your domain naming methodology need not be absolutely conventional, as long as your imagination is not slave to impractical logic and common sense.
Begin with a paper, pencil and loads of patience. Consider seeking the advice of kith and kin, while you scramble ideas in your brain. Follow closely on what you ought to and ought not to consider. For example, consider characteristics, features, advantages and possibly anything that relates to your products and services. Now try to come up with a domain name that either addresses that one fundamental concept of the site, or that weds two or more key concepts in a single name. All the while, keep in mind, your site’s goals, the image you wish to portray and your target audience. Don’t compromise on your image-how you want your company to be perceived and it’s relation to your core business memorability. Jot down your list of ideas. Then narrow it down to those names you think are most reflective of your products/services. Most importantly, determine if the domain name you like is available and that it doesn’t violate any existing trademarks or copyrights. The last thing you’d want is your hard thought idea of that domain name accidentally offending a fellow netizen. Make sure that it doesn’t mean something entirely different in another language and that you don’t spare chance for the public to associate anything negative with it (easier said than done!). Care for the ins and outs of classic and non classic approaches in domain naming? Read on.
Unless you are a domain name squatter or a start-up capitalizing on domain names – save those tongue-twisters, masqueraded phrases and unpronounceable names.
Your creativity levels, thought and effort should be directed towards one that’s short and sweet. Though, a long name, embedded with your major keywords, can get your site a high search engine ranking, there is no reason you should take advantage of the 67 character limit provided for domain names. Besides, you are too late now. The record of the longest domain name has been set by a Welsh village, with its registration of llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com.
Concentrate on your visitors comfort levels. Leave them no scope for confusion and no loophole to err. Give them a name they can easily guess (without having to quip over the spelling and the location of hyphens) and hopefully, they’ll reciprocate with more clicks.
You could always rely on those prefixes (e, i, net, web, the, my) and suffixes (world, business, company, store). The power of vowels unleashed, you’d generate a potential brand name. E.g. ebay.com, ivillage.com, pcworld.com, smallbusiness.com
Lucky the business if it’s creator has that perfect proper noun to lend his site a name. Atkins.com named after Dr. Atkins and Dell.com after its founder and CEO Michael Dell. A traditional business moving online could capitalize on it’s established brand name. Even acronyms could yield quick domain names. Microsoft is an acronym for MICROcomputer SOFTware and so is Yahoo for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.
Targeting search engine rankings ? e.g. Yahoo that follows alphabetic classification of websites ? consider site names beginning with the digit 1 or the letter ‘a’. Jeff Bezos, the creator of Amazon.com, cites this as one of his reasons for the name’s choice.
But for those of you driven by the age old myth ? that search engines have a liking for words that are separated by dashes- wake up! Today, when search engines focus on the site content, hyphenated names have no influence. Domain names with or without hyphens is in itself a topic for a forum. A good idea is to register both options if possible and redirect visitors to one site. Walmart.com never let go off it’s original registration (wal-mart.com), even after it changed name. Now both names take you to the same site.
Think of it on a broader angle. A few dollars spend to secure all possible variants of your name (with alternate extensions) will secure your visitors, otherwise likely to contribute to competitor site traffic. More – register possible names your visitors are likely to associate to your domain. The retailer Buy.com registered the domains: “10percentoffamazon.com,” “10percentoffreel.com,” and “10percentoffegghead.com”. Proctor & Gamble is an extreme case of this blanket approach. It registered hundreds of generic domain names relating to all aspects of personal hygiene and healthcare: pimples.com, badbreath.com, underarm.com, diarrhea.com etc. They advertise only one, but use the others to bring traffic, and point all the domain names to one site.
Though generic names can’t be trademarked, are sources of controversy and usually unavailable (if not, costly), your prospective domain name could sound of the genre of women.com, Hotels.com, Furniture.com, Art.com and shoes.com. Nonetheless, the loss of uniqueness in generic names is a serious reason for their unpopularity among namers. Now guess why Amazon was’nt named book.com and ebay not auction.com.
So, if the dictionary lets you down, do not fret to think of words that are arbitrary, previously unheard of and totally unrelated. Yahoo, Google and BlueTooth.com don’t owe their origins to the thesaurus. Sometimes it pays to be whimsy!
allthegoodnamesaretaken.com
In just around 2 years, the number of website names registered has grown from 200 to a voluminous 125,000 per month. And as yet, already over 1.6 million domains have been registered, including the subtitle above! Chances of you finding a 3 character .com domain name unregistered (not on sale!), are thin? very thin.
Here’s the good news. Everyday, around 20,000 domain names expire and get deleted. In addition to the generic domain extensions such as .com, .net, etc. there are approximately 250 different international domains each with their own two-letter country code extension. Speculations of new TLD (Top Level Domain) names include .firm, .store, .arts, .info, .nom, .biz, .pro, .aero, .coop, .museum and .name.
So, don’t settle for the first domain name you think of! Although the supply of domain names is diminishing daily, it’s better to expend more thought at the beginning and save money later. Don’t let the gold rush skate your decision (and later leave you to regret over an unmarketable name). Then again, don’t sit just hatching ideas. Even as you read this, someone halfway across the globe might be beating you to your choice!
Some are just registered by entrepreneurial opportunists hoping to make a fast buck by selling it on. If your choice is taken, the easiest, cheapest and most reliable solution would be to register another name. Did you know that the auction site eBay.com was the second choice of it’s creator after his initial pick EchoBay.com was taken? A good name is a legal name!
Nonetheless, if you own a successful site, that just can’t do without that colonized ideal name, you better ensure your pockets are deep because the owner at the other end knows that there’s nothing quite like the commercial value of a domain name. The highest publicly known sale of domain name was the sale of Business.com for $7,500,000 to eCompanies, a business incubator.
Domain names have been turned into a marketing bargain with its parking capability. A business can register or buy a name for later use. And there are sites that do nothing but park potential names mostly sold for fire-sale prices later on! A Belgian doctor, Dr. Lieven P. Van Neste owns well over 200,000 domain names. It’s a fine pursuit, if you care to keep your distance from brand infringement. In the past, speculators have faced legal charges on trademark violations from the bigwigs (including Microsoft) for having registered microsoftwindows.com, microsoftoffice.com, AirborneExpress.com, CitibankMasterCard.com, HewlettPackardss.com, and Wall-Mart.com. Domain name conflicts that grabbed headlines – Yahoo vs. “yahooka.com” (a marijuana site), Nissan Motors vs. Nissan Computer Corporation. One that caught my personal appeal – Archie Comics company’s trademark driven domain dispute with Veronica.org, a website set up by a loving dad in honor of his 2-year-old daughter Veronica!
From McDonalds to MTV, a lot of press on online brand infringement ( the hijack of popular brand names) has filled the air. Even as I write this, Google Inc. is being challenged the right to use the name “Froogle” for its online shopping service (a New York based carpenter owns Froogles.com – web shopping site).
Each year, about 250,000 cases are decided by the US federal courts. If you have no time to sort it out the good old fashion, you should consider devising a strategic approach for domain naming, reflected in sound corporate policy and executed with effective management. Toady it’s a topic of senior boardroom meetings where competent professionals are assigned to conduct name searches (a less costly venture compared to the possible consequences of dealing with a complaint of infringement.) Take lessons from corporate folklore on the long term effects of a carelessly chosen domain name. People who learnt things the hard way include Art-U-Frame.com that paid $450,000 to acquire the name art.com.
The crux
Your domain name is more than a ubiquity. You have no other billboard or bypass to your site. Statistics prove that direct navigation or guessed URLs account for majority of the traffic to a site (64.43%), much more than the search engines can bring (35.55%). Eat, drink and sleep on your idea before you move to register that killer name. Don’t hassle, thinking there are nodomainnamesleft.com (that’s taken too!). Your share of homework should save you a lot of misery down the road.
Besides, if you can’t trademark your design scheme, product idea and marketing strategy, here’s something you can. Your domain name is perhaps the only thing that you can own on the Internet. Remember, there’s always more to a name than just the name itself! Happy naming!
Liji is a PostGraduate in Software Science, with a flair for writing on anything under the sun. She puts her dexterity to work, writing technical articles in her areas of interest which include Internet programming, web design and development, ecommerce and other related issues.
