3. Be a Photographer

Take a camera with you wherever you go for an afternoon:

• Take pictures of the people you encounter (with their permission, of course). Develop or download the pictures, then write small vignettes about each person or encounter.
  
• Take close up pictures of various objects. Develop or download the pictures and make up a story to go with the object.
  
• Purposefully take blurry, off-center, or bad photographs (a la Uta Barth)- Develop or download + print the images, Frame them & have your own living room | gallery exhibit. Give each photograph an appropriate (or off-the-wall) title. Have an opening complete with food and beverages & invite friends and family.

2. Be a Thing Finder

Collect objects that you find on your walk, bring them home:

• Draw them
  
• Collage them into your journal
  
• write about them:
  
  • how did you found the "thing"?
    
  • What is the secret life of the thing found - where did it come from, how did it end up there...
  
  
• set up a mini-museum in which to display your best weekly finds [change it each week]
  
• Write descriptive tags for them & display them in your house somewhere
  
• Write descriptive or story tags for them, and leave them somewhere for someone else to find

1. Go For A Walk

...Or a jog. It may not seem related, but getting up and out of the house | office | studio and into the world helps those creative juices flow.

This can help in a number of ways:

1. It gets you out of an environment where you are feeling stifled
   
2. It puts you into the bigger world & in contact with idea-inspiring opportunities or situations
   
3. You get some exercise, which in turn can:
   
   • stimulate those brain cells
     Some studies show that there is a link between exercise, creativity, and cognitive skills. You can read more about it in Dr. Carole Wood-Grisham's Article or in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
     
   • put you in a better mood by letting those mood enhancing endorphins loose