Category Archives: Creativity

Apr
23
“Ryan, but I’m not creative?” “Dude, do you have a right brain?” “Yes” “Then you’re BSin yourself… you are what you say you are, so say you’re creative and watch your right brain come to life!” OK that conversation never happened, but that’s how it would go if it ever did. As you know by now I’m committed to seeing people discover their passion and providing them with the tools and support to...
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Apr
22
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Many of us want to find our better halves. As a friend once said it, we want to find that other person that ‘completes’ us so together we take on the world! Unfortunately, many of us often put finding that ‘better half’ ahead of finding out who we are as a whole. “Oh common Ryan, that’s so cheesy. What the heck does ‘finding our whole’ mean anyways?” Good question. A few days ago I realized exactly what that means. It...
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Apr
21
A couple of days ago I talked about the creation process, where you use everything to create something you want that caters to the wants of others, that’s never been created before. I’m almost positive that some of you who saw ‘entrepreneurship’ cringed at the fact of starting something new. This post is dedicated to showing you that the creation process can happen in 2 different ways: 1) Create new systems  2) Innovate within systems 1) Create new...
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Mar
1
Her 28th birthday is coming up, and my friend Carolyn wants to shake things up this year. She’s taking the day off to go out into the city and perform 28 Random Acts of Kindness!! Cool eh! And well she needs you help… She’s looking for unique, creative, and fun ideas of what those random acts of kindness can look like.  While she’s open to anything and everything, she’s particularly interested in ideas that don’t cost anything and that...
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Feb
19
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A few months ago while helping a couple of friends career hunt, I came up with an idea that I feel can help stand leaders out amongst the crowd. It’s called the Idea Sheet and it’s purpose is to help career seekers the chance to showcase their proactive and creative thinking skills. I’ll be totally upfront that this is still just an idea and I have no proof that it’s worked yet, but I’m hoping one of you curious leaders out there gives it a...
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Feb
13
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This past weekend I found myself in an interesting conversation about Apartheid. While I didn’t know much about it, I had the privilege to listen to someone who experienced it first hand. As they explained their struggles facing the government enforced racial segregation, it made me think of how nice I’ve had it being brought up in Canada. As I reflected more on the story and the issue in general I began to see something interesting. Is it just me, or does...
Posted in Connection, Creativity |
Feb
10
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We live in a very competitive society. The mindset ‘anything you can do I can do better’ has drifted us off the track of what it means to be truly competitive. You see when you compete against someone else, what are you really accomplishing? It’s like another form of an argument, where you focus on being ‘right’ and proving the other person/business ‘wrong’. You get 100 points for the pride, but nothing else is often...
Posted in Creativity, Leadership, Marketing |
Nov
18
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When I was younger I liked to consider myself a ‘rebel.’ I always liked to ‘break the rules.’ Why? Well I didn’t want to fit in. I wanted to stand out! I wanted to show everyone I was a rebel. Here’s the thing. Rules are put in place for a reason. They are there to make things WORK. A real rebel plays by the rules and gets creative within them. What do I mean? Let’s use cars on the road as an example. There are the rules of the...
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