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You don’t sit around and wait for your dinner to make itself, or stare at your driveway waiting for the shovel to jump up on its own and clear a path to your car—so why do we wait for ideas to strike? Of course, sometimes ideas do hit us in a flash. But typically, we’re not so lucky. I’m sorry to inform you that the best way to experience that moment of clarity, is to put yourself in creativity’s path and engage yourself in idea-generating activities. Here are ten ways you can open yourself up to endless idea possibilities.

1. Read more stuff. Magazines, books, blogs, your MyAlltop page (wink wink)—whatever you enjoy reading—can help boost your brain’s idea-generating ability. Just fifteen to twenty minutes per day is enough to feed your brain with ideas galore. Also, if you want to increase the quality of your ideas, increase the quality of writing you read.

4. Collect quotes. Never be without notepad (or smartphone) on which you can scribble something worth reading again in the future. Start categorizing them and turn to the pearls of knowledge whenever you need a shot of creativity, a boost of confidence, whatever!

Read on for all ten idea-inducing activities.

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