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How Adult Coloring for Creativity Boosts Home Businesses

Tips From T. Marie

Stress Reduction Running a home business can be a high-stress venture. Stress, unfortunately, stifles creativity. A study by the American Art Therapy Association showed that just 45 minutes of creative activity significantly lowers stress levels , regardless of artistic experience or talent.

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Boost Your Well-Being By Taking Creativity Breaks Throughout Your Day

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As each day fills up with tasks, meetings and endless to-do lists, it’s all too easy to slip into overwhelm and stress. A new study found that doing arts and crafts doesn’t just reduce stress—it also gives a big boost to your well-being by providing a meaningful outlet for your expression, along with a sense of accomplishment.

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Want to Boost Your Creativity? Try These 12 Easy Hacks This Year

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After working on your project for a short time, step away and do an undemanding task, such as doodling or loading the dishwasher. Coloring or doodling? Just like your overstuffed closet makes you feel guilty, stressed, overwhelmed and unhappy, your idea debt is also diminishing your creative spark down to a barely visible ember.

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Pretty Planning

Tips From T. Marie

You can doodle with gel pens and felt markers or just stick to words with black and blue pens. Remember, paper planners are there to make your life easier, not more stressful. It’s kind of all the rage right now. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have a box full of washi tape myself.) Or you can keep them messy. – T.

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Essentialism: Focus on Less Tasks to Get More Work Done

Productivityist

It has games, psychology, science, fun doodles, brain scans and technical step by step instructions. Every project you complete in multitasking-mode is punished with a loss of quality, loss of time and worst of all, you punish yourself with high levels of stress. It’s hectic, stressful and overwhelming. The whole nine yards.

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How to Launch Your Thing on Time

Productivityist

This is a lot harder said than done these days for teachers because its not just doodling, daydreaming, and passing notes thats keeping the students off task. There will always be some level of stress in every launch. Teachers have to compete with the internet, smartphones, and Facebook. Final Advice.

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Could Play at Work Be the Secret to Creativity and Employee Happiness?

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So, whether play at work means a team kickball tournament or ideating with a doodle board, employees in a variety of industries are tapping into the power of play. Those friendships matter back at work when, the next day after a fun practice, another teammate sees someone they played with stressed out and asks how they can help.

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