I declare this week, JIGSAW PUZZLE WEEK!! What with my addiction to jigsaw puzzles and all. Actually, it started last week!! Now, I have them plastered all over my niche site, the jigsaw puzzles ie.
You can find them in the Reviews Section, the Articles Section, and now, the Blogs Section. You can even find one peeking out from the right-hand corner of my Home Page. Jigsaws, jigsaws, jigsaws... I think I'm going bonkers!!
If you had been a regular visitor to my niche site, and getting small doses of "creativity" from sifting through all the materials that have been slowly trickling in from all avenues, you'd realise that our minds/brains are just like jigsaw puzzles. We have all these compartments holding all these bits and pieces of information, and if we lose our focus, we become disoriented somehow.
So, perhaps, when I was in my "jigsaw puzzle" addiction state, I was actually immersed in my "comfort zone" and if I hadn't snapped out of it, I would somehow get distracted from my main goal, which was to gather diversified interpretations of "creative thinking" for publication on my niche site.
My readers will certainly tire of seeing so many jigsaw puzzles, spluttered all over. Like what they always say, "Too much of a good thing, blah, blah, blah!!" But then, the following
saying also comes to mind: "All work and no play...", you know what I mean??
Ah... I'm just giving excuses. The fact of the matter is that I tend to go overboard sometimes. That's why I like the idea of having different viewpoints of "Creative Thinking" on my niche site. This way, I don't get all "fanatical" and everything 'cos I'll be having different experts in the field giving varying opinions about "creative thinking". This way, we listen to their theories, hear their arguments, dissect all the information before us, then decide for ourselves. We use what (we feel in our minds) suits us, and discard the rest, and we go from there.
Nothing is original, I always say. Half the things we will come to read would probably not be new to us, but nevertheless, our brain is like a sponge. And, the more we exercise them by way of reading and assimilating the information, the more questions will be popping out from our minds, and the more "creative" we will become. I assure you. Ever since I started researching on the subject of "Creative Thinking", I have become "smarter". LOL!!! Well, not exactly "smarter", but more "aware". Yes, certainly "more aware"!!
And, if all this makes you wonder too, then you'd probably want to look for the answers. And, if that doesn't make you more "creative" in your quest for answers, I don't know what does. So there!! I rest my case!!
Doris Lim
Doris Lim, the owner of "CreativeThinkingForWomen.com", has only one thing in mind when she started this niche site, and that is to create awareness to the general public that you don't have to be a "rocket scientist" to have "creative thinking". She believes that no one should be thought of as being smarter or more creative just because one possesses a higher education. Of course, that helps a little. But, she believes that anyone can be taught to "think creatively". All one has to do is tap into that brain one has been born with and bring out the creative side. With so much knowledge and information available on the internet nowadays, it will take alot of effort, energy and time to select the best authors/writers, articles, tips and "how-to's" to come together in a creative process in this niche site and make it the "1-Stop Centre for Creative Thinking". And because Doris is a woman, this website will be dedicated to all "women", thus the name "CreativeThinkingForWomen.com" (Softly whispering... "men" are also welcome to visit).
A little bit of history about Doris. Having both an Asian and European background (Chinese and Portuguese), her thoughts are equally governed by both the East as well as the West. That accounts for her love of the English Language (she's being accused of having a British accent when she converses with Americans) and her obsession with Korean television serials (obviously, she has to make do with English subtitles). But, enough chit-chat.
Her credentials stem from her extensive years of experience working with "great minds" who "think creatively" and "act creatively". She has prepared speeches for politicians, consumer activists, assisted authors and researchers in the production of books and newsletters and also dabbled in the advertising and public relations sector.
Thus her quest now - to boldly go where no mind has gone before (no, we're not watching "Star Trek") and seek the BEST stuff out there in the "Cyber World" in order to share with her readers/subscribers, the various aspects of "Creative Thinking".