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None of us are empty when it comes to having a library of raw creative building blocks. We may have skills, attitudes, references, quotes, inspirational clippings, energy, enthusiasm and a whole lot more. What we need to do is recognise the importance of these and take ownership of them by marshalling them into our own Creative Resource Centre

You are going to build your own Resource Box. This box will over the years become stuffed with that collection of characteristics, traits and inspiration that particularly mean something to you. This is a type of journaling advocated by many an author, best known is Julia Cameron in “Artists Way” where she advocates something she calls “artists pages” which is a collection of thoughts and often random ideas that the creative person journals on a regular basis.

What does the Resource centre look like.?

Gone are the days when cuttings and articles would be stored somewhere in a box file. Today people would build their Resource Centre part electronically in a word processing or spreadsheet package so as to utilise the tremendous resource of the internet, and part in the form of a journal which may be a book, moleskine, or diary.

Personally I use Microsoft Office OneNote package which to me makes the ideal Creativity Resource Centre although I doubt in its origination it was ever intended as such. This is what the first page of mine looks like

In its simplest form, OneNote is an electronic version of a paper notebook where you can write down ideas, goals, quotes, creative habits, declarations, and all kinds of other information building your own Creativity Resource Centre on a free form canvas. You can type, write, or draw notes in the form of text, graphics, and images wherever and however you want. Its organisational ability allows you to later drag, move delete and drop in info directly from the web.