Sometimes, I can't believe how accurate these little tests are. How do they do it?

What Louise Pool Means

You are relaxed, chill, and very likely to go with the flow. You are light hearted and accepting. You don't get worked up easily. Well adjusted and incredibly happy, many people wonder what your secret to life is. You are well rounded, with a complete perspective on life. You are solid and dependable. You are loyal, and people can count on you. At times, you can be a bit too serious. You tend to put too much pressure on yourself. You are a very lucky person. Things just always seem to go your way. And because you're so lucky, you don't really have a lot of worries. You just hope for the best in life. You're sometimes a little guilty of being greedy. Spread your luck around a little to people who need it. You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing. You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long. You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start. You are the total package - suave, sexy, smart, and strong. You have the whole world under your spell, and you can influence almost everyone you know. You don't always resist your urges to crush the weak. Just remember, they don't have as much going for them as you do. You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone. You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together. At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together. You are influential and persuasive. You tend to have a lot of power over people. Generally, you use your powers for good. You excel at solving other people's problems. Occasionally, you do get a little selfish and persuade people to do things that are only in your interest.

What's Your Name's Hidden Meaning?

Want to know how to be creative? There are several techniques you can use to unleash your inner creativity. In this film brain guru Tony Buzan talks about how to develop your creative thinking, and apply it in many different ways.


How To Improve Your Creative Thinking

Step 1:

Everyone is Creative

It's a misconception that some people are not creative. The brain has a million brain cells, and has huge powers of creativity. Many people are just not trained to tap into their brain's creative potential.

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Step 2:

The Left & Right Brain

The left brain tends to deal with words, logic, numbers etc, and the right brain tends to deal with colour, shapes, rhythm etc. However, it's another misconception that creativity is purely right-brained. Real creativity involves both sides of the brain.

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Step 3:

Speed of Thought

Training the brain think faster can help improve creative thinking. Exercise the brain with things like sudoku, crosswords, puzzles and chess, and try to do them as fast as possible.

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Step 4:

Originality of thought

Try to think about things in as many different ways as possible. Think 'outside the box.'

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Step 5:

Flexibility of Thought

Most people tend to focus on one way of perceiving the world around, to improve your creativity try to discover and explore as many perspectives as possible.

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Step 6:

Imagination & Association

Great creative thinkers use their imagination, and then try to make links and associations between things. Find new connections between things is a way of creating something new.

What Your Easter Egg Says About You

You are a deeply spiritual and passionate person. Easily moved, you feel emotions strongly and clearly. You are compassionate, loving, and kind. People feel inspired by your strength and convictions.

The Easter Egg Personality Test

I used to work in a psychiatric outpatient clinic. One of the steps in treating mental health disorders is to put the patient on a schedule. This is to provide some stability in their daily lives and stop their minds from dangerously going haywire. But what if you, as a sane person, have too much stability in your life? It's boring. It's stagnating. It's debilitating. And it may lead to depression ...

So why not go a little haywire in your daily life? Living in the moment is dangerous. It can open you up to all kinds of new experiences. You never know what might happen.

Here are some ideas on how to break out of your daily routine:

• 1. Change your path. Take a different way to go to work, school, shopping. Look around you and really take in what's going on around you. Be aware of the sights, sounds and smells of your surroundings and the people you encounter.
• 2. Create something in a medium you have never used before. Knit a scarf if you have never knitted (This one's for guys, too. In Turkey, it's only the men who knit.) Paint or draw, if your usual medium is writing.
• 3. Eat something you have never eaten before. It doesn't have to be snake or chocolate-coated termites, although I can recommend ostrich steak for red meat lovers.
• 4. Celebrate being alive. Gather some friends and throw a party. If the climate allows, have it outdoors.
• 5. Take a day off work and go on a mini vacation. If you're a really conscientious person in employment, make sure you go on a day you're supposed to be at work. Shock yourself and take a sick day. Enjoy your day off by following your nose. Do exactly what you feel like doing in the moment. Except for feeling guilty for bunking off work.
• 6. Do something really silly and childish that makes you roll in laughter. Or just be a kid again. Take a ruler and challenge someone to a fencing match. Grab a co-worker and do a tango. Slide down a slide or swing to your hearts content. Take a friend along and you'll soon be laughing yourself silly.
• 7. Boldly go where no man has been before. Or at least where you haven't been before. If you can afford it, visit Paris. Or visit the wrong side of the tracks in your town. Or the right side of the tracks, if you're on the wrong side.
• 8. Spread some art around. I once printed and decorated a whole stack of cards with positive messages on them and spent the afternoon surreptitiously hiding them between the products in supermarkets and in menus in restaurants. It's the opposite of stealing, but feels naughty.

Routine suffocates creativity, so make a little space to live in the moment. What do you really want to do now? Follow your instincts. You may find it such fun and so liberating, you'll want to do it more often. And more often. And even more often. Until it takes up not only part of your life, but is your life. Go on, live a little. You won't have to call the medical emergency services.

I was initially a little dissapointed, as yellow and green are not my favourite colours, but then I read the description ...

Your Heart is Yellow and Green

Your heart is caring and generous. You are kind, understanding, and forgiving. You bring objectivity and rationality to relationships. You're good at giving your partner freedom and space.

What Are the Colors of Your Heart?

These are part of a new range of mixed media jewellery. I've painted bits of sea glass and other beach finds with glass paint, then added a collaged word and wire-wrapped the lot.






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