The Bridge by Stowebridge: What sparks your Creativity? (And an invitation for you!)

What sparks your creativity? (And an invitation for you!)

You certainly can’t command it to come. You can’t schedule it. Creativity often evades you just when you need it the most. And it often surprises you when you least expect it – like that great idea you got in the shower this morning. Creativity is in all of us – we just need to free our minds to allow it to happen.

What is creativity?

Here are some of my favorite definitions.

“Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.” – Rollo May, The Courage to Create

"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while." Steve Jobs

How do we allow creativity to happen?

Since creative thoughts come at the most unusual times – from dreams, from the quiet magical moment just between sleep and wakefulness, and when we have time to free our mind, here are a few things that help me.

Quiet walks at dawn before the world wakes up
See the world differently. Viewing the world through my camera lens gives me new perspectives, especially if I look for an unusual camera angle or view point with the most common of objects.
Meet new people everywhere you go.
Get away from your desk and get out of the workplace – Get some fresh air!
Be curious – get off the freeway and take the back roads (literally and figuratively).
Take your vacation; make your weekends fun and not just extra days for work or chores. Our minds need time to recharge to be our best.
Volunteer and give back – volunteering gets your mind off your problems, your life and gives you perspective when you help others. It also helps you see differently.

An Invitation to Creativity and Inspiration

At Stowebridge we work in a creative business. We are serious about helping you with creative ideas. And yet creative ideas come from making connections between what we know and new things we see. So each year we host an IDEA FAIR. We bring together the very best representatives and suppliers in our industry with people like you. They bring their imaginative ideas, their latest products and endless amounts of success stories that have worked for others like you. Our show is just the thing you need to recharge your creativity - its all designed to creative ideas just for you.

Join us on October 7^th at our Chandler, AZ location. Each year we have a fun theme – And this year is no different – we are having a Birthday Bash to celebrate our 20^th anniversary. Great food, new ideas, new people to meet, prizes, gifts and so many terrific ideas to spark your creativity.

You don’t have to be a current customer to join us. But we do ask that you register for the show. Register at www.Stowebridge.com and click on the Birthday Bash logo on our header. Bring colleagues from your office and by working together, you will find even more ideas. Once you are registered, you will receive updates and a formal invitation with all the details.

Let us help you spark your creativity.

Here are a few photos from past shows - our Build It theme last year and our Hollywood extravaganza in 2012.