A Weekend Creative Instigation Assignment - You're Doing Monday's Post!

Don’t feel like you get enough opportunities to be creative in your job? Maybe so.

If that’s the case, here's an assignment for today and over the weekend: be on the lookout for an informal opportunity to use your creative talent to help someone else, then report back on it here by Monday.

Want a quick example - at a party earlier this year, one guest was talking about trying to come up with an intriguing name for her new business idea. I joined the conversation and offered to help generate some possible names. My motivation? I'd developed a new messaging ideation technique that hadn't yet been tested. This was a great low-risk way to see if it could really generate lots of cool ideas.

We both benefitted. She received more than a 100 possible names; I learned what worked and didn't with the new technique.

Be on the lookout for people with creative challenges this weekend and share your stories in the comments section starting today through Monday (Monday's Creative Quickie post will go mid-day Friday). Let everyone know how you tried to help someone. And in so doing, you'll address another creative challenge: your comments will become the whole Monday Creative Quickie post!

So have a great weekend and report your successes in helping others with creative challenges on Brainzooming!