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Things that keep you from being creative

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Jeff Brooks
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Being creative is hard. And the person who makes it most difficult for you is you.

Copyblogger lists 8 Bad Habits that Crush Your Creativity, along with some ways of overcoming them:


  1. Creating and evaluating at the same time
  2. The Expert Syndrome (over-reliance on “gurus”)
  3. Fear of failure
  4. Fear of ambiguity
  5. Lack of confidence
  6. Discouragement from other people
  7. Being overwhelmed by information (“analysis paralysis”)
  8. Being trapped by false limits

If you need to be creative, check it out.

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    The future of fundraising is not about social media, online video, or SEM. It’s not about any technology, medium, or technique. It’s about donors. If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them. And the future? It’s already here. More.

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    Jeff Brooks has been serving the nonprofit community for more than 30 years and blogging about it since 2005. He considers fundraising the most noble of pursuits and hopes you’ll join him in that opinion. You can reach him at jeff [at] jeff-brooks [dot] com.