What are ideas, after all, if not levels of things? One thing a day, one thought a day, one refl(a)ction every day to keep the energy going and creativity flowing. Ideas are there, we got that, they are available and around…

It is very true that ideas are not everywhere and that they require effort and talent and consistency to get by and of good quality. At the same time, I think they come our way all the time. One of the…

At the end of the day, there’s only one thing that will make your dreams come to life: make them yourself! I believe there’s no limit to what we can do and we should never be the ones not fighting to…

One thing about ideas is that you often lose track of them, of what they became and where they ended up being. This is the main reason why I became obsessed with collecting, archiving and detailing my work and my…

Towards the end of the year and, for me, the end of this blog, I tend to become more romantic. That kind of romance that makes you think about the past and think about what you are losing moving ahead….

Towards the end, we tend to start looking back and draft conclusions. What worked, what didn’t, what could be better… And it’s ok, it’s natural and part of the process, but we shouldn’t get stuck in there. Creativity is not…

Taking the time to do nothing is just as important as investing all your energies in actually doing something.

As usual, the best learnings come from nature. I learned from nature many things, about myself and my body, about people and energy behaviors, about time. Nature teaches us time is the most important thing, and by doing this blog…

This is more or less the point of this blog and the conclusion I’m getting to: whatever you want, see, find, notice…can become the subject of your next idea. It doesn’t really matter what it is or what you make…

Creativity is not so much about what you create as much as about what you decide not to keep. By eliminating options you make choices that will drive you to the right place, the choices will bring you to not…

It comes like this, unexpected, unintended, unusual. I look at it and it talks to me. It talks to you. It’s a window to a new vision and a new day, to the next chapter. It’s a piece of reality…

It’s funny how a detail shows up and sometimes it’s not even there, you just have to go and get it. Creativity is about noticing those details, going there, see them, capturing them. Creativity is about a moment, an instant….

Humility is not about being anything you are not as much as just being everything you are. And the first rule in creativity is to be able to bring that humility into everything we do. If we do that we…

If you practice and train you get the result you want, that’s for sure. And they might make you feel like a lion for a day, or maybe more! The secret, then, is to not give up and to actually…

Ideas should be light as air, like if they were flying free without the weight of judgment or premeditation. Ideas fly around us, around our heads, bodies and minds and are there about to reach us. Most of the times,…

When you feel as if you can’t make it, look up, go up, breathe up. Make it count, make it fun, make it mean. Don’t struggle, don’t give up, just look up. Up. With the body, the energy, the mindset,…

Sometimes it helps to map out our thoughts and where we think we are. A simple sign of where we are in time, in life, in meaning. It helps to understand where we want to go and what we want to…

Remember. Imagine. Dream. Make. Switch. Move. Stop. Start. Connect. Listen. Ask. Give. Touch. Look. Rest.

The doctor would say: Take a break. And so you do.

Best advice ever for creatives: don’t ask for permission, just go and do it!

Creating is like fighting a battle every day. With yourself, your willingness to make stuff, your daily energy. Although is not always the perfect day to create, we should never stop fighting to find new ideas, inspirations, insights. That’s the core…

An idea is that delicate and small space in between what you notice and what you don’t. While walking in the streets, sitting at a table or eating something with a friend there’s always something that’s trying to talk to…

It is a great question to ask ourselves over and over, each time we start a journey or we take a decision, A question to ask ourselves every time we find ourselves moving. A question that will give a present…

Creating is somehow to fish into our memories and transform what comes out of it. And so the invitation is to never forget to remember about your past, especially when you were a kid and you were in love with…

It comes that moment for a pause, for reflection, to look inside yourself. What do you see? What do you hear? What do you feel? After two days without my voice and in need for it, I don’t wonder where…

Creativity is most of the times a new way to look at old things. It is about being able to see how something might look different and fun and interesting. It is about taking what exists and transforming it, not…

In what you do. In what you dream. In what you promise. In what you touch. In what you learn. In what you see. Be in it with all that you got.

We should always be able to see behind and notice what’s there and not immediately visible, without stopping at a first level. Ideas, insights and inspiration almost never reside in the first thing we see or feel and going a…

It’s important to keep track of what we do and this is one of the main reasons I keep this blog alive. Remembering, going back to moments, live again, be close to the past… It all helps to put things…

Happiness is real only when shared. And so are ideas… In my experience, doing things together makes things better and more fun. Even if it doesn’t happen at a physical level, just by considering somebody esle’s point of view while…

There’s planning and instinct. There are acts of reflection and acts of courage. There are a present and the future. Creating doesn’t always have to do with having clear and full visibility of everything and we should come to peace with it. Not looking,…

It doesn’t matter where you are going or why what I know is that is always a long way to get there. There isn’t a shortcut when creating, we always have to take into account every part of the journey….

To create we have to be able to see inside ourselves and to reflect on what we see. The results of those reflections are often the guide to creativity itself and they drive our creative movement. To be able to…

That’s what life, and creativity is about. You go up and down, down and up, and all we have to do is to resist, find our ways, identify a decent level of standard quality that will keep us high in…

Here is an idea for a day where you don’t have (time or energy for) ideas. Go back to an image that gives you some sort of meaning. Look at it. Ask yourself what it is telling you. Write a…

Sometimes emptiness is the only thing you need to understand it all.

Even when you think you aren’t creating anything, you actually are. That’s what happens to me: I’m constantly looking, observing, adapting, changing, creating. My eyes move and capture things and my mind translates them into concepts and my hands into…

As much as it’s true that sometimes it’s just important to do it, to make it happen, details count. What details show, more than anything else, is care: how much effort, energy and love we put in what we are doing. That…

There’s nothing to do or say about it, we are in this together. Creativity isn’t a solo game, you are never alone when creating, thinking, looking for solutions. All around you, someone is doing something, something is happening, somehow you can…

Sometimes it’s a matter of taking the time you need, slow it down, focus on what’s relevant. Creating is like living, just like staying around keeping the purpose. Living is about making choices and taking risks. Taking the time to…

We could ask ourselves that question every single day: what is beauty and what is not? I find that often beauty is what we make of it, how we transform something into something else, how we are able to see…

So many times my mind goes in many places but the one where I currently am or should be. I just can’t stop it. Or that’s what I thought until now. To create, to write, to think…we have to be…

This one, in my opinion, should always be the first rule: keep it simple. There’s no reason to make it too big or complicated if you can keep it simple. Whatever you do that’s not just simple gets harder to…

Why would you hold yourself back from a bite? Creativity is about tasting new and old flavours, to explore what you don’t know and to appreciate what you know you like already. We might think to hold back from trying…

In how many ways can we look at things and in how many ways can we remember them? I figured I’ve been passing through a similar or identical landscape so many times that it should just always look the same…

There’s nothing else to do than celebrate the time we have available to do, create, think, change. All our life is designed to create something, to achieve some sort of result, to leave something behind. I want to wake up every…

This is one of the hardest things for me: to disconnect, to forget, to free up space for emptiness, to let go completely. Since it is one of the hardest, I try hard to do something about it, which sounds…

Do something you would never do. Think something you would never think. Try something you would never try. Write something you would never write. Sometimes all we have to do is doing. Some other time all we have to do is try…

There are times when we just pretend we know what we are doing, we can’t really understand what it is or what it should be and we are not able to make a real plan or give sense to it. Those…

                  Creating is about being aware. It is indeed about being able to notice what is around and what needs to emerge. I notice that my own creative process goes through phases…

When tired. Fishing from the past. Keep it short. Blurry view. Yet, a view.

There are things we have under our eyes every single day but we just don’t see. Our task as creators is some time to just see things for what they are, or see things for what they are not. Other…

There isn’t a job more important than others and there isn’t one mission more relevant than others. We all struggle and fight for our mission, for our daily effort. We all put all of ourselves in what we are doing…

One thing to pay attention to is how much you are reinventing yourself. When you are busy or feel tired it is hard to keep it up and make sure you have the constant creative tension that makes you create…

The real secret is that we don’t have to put too much effort in looking for the right thing because that’s hidden in everything we do and see. Every single experience we make brings with it some sort of input…

Don’t ever forget where you come from and what moves you. That will always make the difference and will inform you about what to do.

Who said we have to create something new every single day?! For me, it’s not so much about creating something new as it is about training our creative muscles to be active. For that very reason, recycling is ok and…

It doesn’t happen often to see mastery at work, how someone who really understand what he or she is doing and applies it to their work in an excellent way. It happens if you approach it with serendipity, if you…

We often find ourselves saying we didn’t have time, we didn’t have enough time, time wasn’t nice to us, we ran out of time… I’m not sure if that counts for me. Time is a condition, we can’t control it,…

There are these days where I can’t see well and clearly. Autumn is here and that always has some sort of effect on me. The change of the hour, the season, the short days. I just can’t see well and clearly….

Sometimes we only have what’s left, and has to be enough. We can’t always keep what we do and we have done as an untouched, clean and pure thing. We can’t be sure what we create remains as it was…

When I walk I look around a lot and I think one of my qualities is to notice things. I tend to notice details and corners that aren’t necessarily interesting for others and, actually, this blog gets a lot of…

Don’t think too much. Don’t think twice. Don’t think about what others will say. Don’t think about what’s right and what’s wrong. Don’t look for balance. Don’t look for perfection. Don’t look for something else. Don’t look back. Be present….

What does it mean to be original? In how many ways can we be original? Is it about doing something new? Or different? Or an original adaptation of something existing is enough? I don’t really believe in limited editions, in…

What’s more important than having clear references to go back to when lost, tired or just distracted? We should always have something to aim to go back to, a little detail or sign telling us what to do in case…

Creating is not always a matter of picking up the first thing and transform it into what you need. There are days, like today for me, where you look for inspiration, for a sign, for the one thing that will make…

Creating is like being in a constant lab. You are experimenting, putting together ideas, mixing different ingredients, testing some options, eliminating others. A lab in continuous evolvement and change, a place where mistakes are welcome and new ways of doing are…

When you haven’t much to say or you have no clue of where to go fishing for ideas, go abstract. Abstraction is taking a step back and look at something with a fresh perspective, something that means nothing and everything at…

In a world of technologies and constant and fast innovation, I find my kids an enormous source of inspiration for going slow and think different. It’s easy to look at them and get inspired, to what hasn’t been planned or…

I already wrote how important it is, in my opinion, to give ourselves a reward when we achieve an objective: this reward can be anything, from a present to a kind of food, from free time to cook a cake….

Great ideas are the ones that go straight to the point. Once somebody told me that the more it takes me to explain my idea the less is likely to be a good one. Good ideas are generally simple, affordable…

When we create something we always need to be aware we are leaving traces behind. This means that we want whatever we do to be meaningful and worthwhile in some way, which might affect the way we create or take…

Learn to recognize when is time to take a break and slow down. Enjoy it.

Everything we do is itself a little mission, in the sense of having an objective and a strategy to get it done. We are all into a daily mission with our lives and committed to making things happen. Creativity is…

Doing something every day has really one major requirement: getting it done. It has to do with rhythm, practice, patience…but most of all is really about doing it. And, the more I do it the more I realize how much…

You just have to pay attention and look for it, but creativity and ideas are everywhere around us. People ask me where I find inspiration for these posts and time to post them, every day. And my answer is always…

Smiling is one of the best ways to take life. A smile is a present, given or taken. Smiling helps you connect, with people and possibilities. A smile will open doors and reveal feelings. Giving a smile as a present will…

What’s inside your luggage? Is your luggage usually big or small? How many things do you need to bring with you when traveling? Are you a light traveler or a heavy one? Think about our luggage on a creative journey….

I’m a big believer in early mornings. I always loved to wake up early and start doing things before anybody else could call me or reach out in any way. Here are a few reasons why I love that and…

Creating is not a solo act. It is not a selfish, individual and solitary act. Creating resides in our hands, not mine, not yours. It’s by definition an act of offering and receiving at the same time and only by…

One thing a day. One video a day. One drawing a day. One post a day. “Why” is often the one question I ask myself, whatever I am doing. Why am I doing it? Why am I where I am?…

Creativity is a flow of different things happening, sometimes at the same time, sometimes in different places, sometimes with different feelings. Our role is to live with this flow, understand and accept its directions and intentions, let the flow come…

To create is to make choices. To make choices is to risk. To risk is to try. To try is to achieve. There’s something extremely relevant in making choices. We make choices all the time about everything and they affect…

What could go wrong? That’s the question you want to ask yourself when creating or approaching anything creative. It is not so much about what you will get right or how it will look like as much as it is…

Good news! You just need to realize that not knowing is ok and live with it… It might sound obvious or banal but that’s actually often a pretty big deal. We believe that to create, to have ideas and be…

It doesn’t matter how busy, tired, discouraged, in the wrong mood or late…Make it! The best way to get ideas out and things done is to make them happen. To make, no matter what, is a great way at least…

I’m a big fan of rules. And I also think rules are there to be broken! There’s so much happening and emerging when we break a given rule or a rule we set for ourselves. New discoveries, new possibilities, new…

Ocean view? Street view? Panorama view? What room do you need to create something? In my opinion, we only need a life view. A window into other people’s life, thoughts, movements. Sometimes is enough to just look at what we have…

Creating anything involves effort and dedication. Nothing happens by chance or without putting energy into it. So it ends up that creativity and idea generation is a little bit like doing homework…let me explain. Homeworks are there to help us…

There are days where everything speaks about love and love moves everything you have around. Love, passion, feelings, sentiments…these are all elements strongly connected to our creative part of the brain and they often drive and influence our creativity. So…

I learned so much from my kids… I believe the most important thing is that it is always worth the effort. Whatever you do with passion, with commitment, putting yourself in it and trying to achieve something, it’s worth the…

What is that I’m doing? What is that I’m trying to achieve? What is this blog and what is this post? It’s all an excuse, and that’s my point. It’s an excuse to observe intentionally, to try not to miss…

Some days I am amazed by the beauty of little things and I would just stare at them and enjoy them silently. Some days, that’s all I need to feel I’ll be able to create something new again, soon.

Creativity is often a matter of being able to see the shades of ideas coming as options. We are often so focused on “getting it right” that we forget that first of all we need to get it! And it…

When creating nothing more normal than going against some form of disaster… Trying something out, testing, prototyping, throwing out ideas leads to uncertain and unexpected consequences and that’s part of the creative process. Disasters, in my opinion, are ways to demonstrate we tried…

Your ideas, your inner creativity, your forms of expression, all your feelings and insights are often just locked somewhere. Sometimes, perhaps most of the times, they are hidden and locked somewhere; you believe your role is to find them but…

When you create you are giving a piece of yourself away each time. In fact, the more what you create is personal and deeply connected to who you are and what you feel, the more likely will be something valuable…

Changing perspective, we know it, helps improve our experience. Getting closer is one way, and it helps to see things we didn’t see. Not only because of proximity but also, and most of all, for what new portions of information…

You thought writing notes on your hands was for you when you were a kid. You thought that losing an idea was ok since you had so many. You believed note taking is not for cool people. And that’s where you got…

We often think there is one way to do things or another. Well, there might be another one too, and one more, and one more again: we just don’t look carefully enough! Things can be very different depending on where…

We often do things thinking or hoping others will notice. In creativity that’s almost a subtitle to everything we do, since what we create has to be consumed” by somebody else one way or another… So it is really important to…

This blog post could have easily been titled “Fake It Until You Make It”. Creativity is often a matter of belief and not so much about facts. If you believe in yourself and what you can achieve, you will probably make…

The secret of doing is, no doubt, just DOING IT! The real issue is that to do it, to make it happen, to move things around, to change something takes often a lot of courage and, always, at least a little bit…

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In a creative process, we often want to make sure we are looking at the areas we don’t usually would look into. That makes our ideas and creativity fresher and offers more choices to choose from. Typically we see what…

I’m a big fan of not sleeping enough and using the saved sleeping time to “do stuff”. I still am a big fan of it, but over time I rethought my very integral approach to this concept. I think sleeping…

Some days, as previously shared, only talk about how we sometimes need to take a pause from the rest. This is one of them and I’m fully into it. That pause (silence) will bring more ideas (music) and I’ll be ready by…

Our sensitivity helps us get ideas and make them true as much as understanding when there’s too much on our plate. Our ability to create is directly proportionate to our capacity to recognize when something is too much and take a…

Insist. Getting your idea done is not always a matter of luck or instinct, although it is often the case. It is probably more likely to happen because we insisted on what we were doing, so much that we overcame…

A few things are better than laying down and staring at the sky looking the clouds moving: like parts of stories that are trying to tell us important things, or like people from the past coming running away, or like…

Even though I’m a strong believer in multiple possibilities and choices, sometimes there’s really only one way to go. And that might be true for ideas and ideas generation. They can come from anywhere, emerge and come up by mistake,…

Looking back helps put things in perspective and often ideas arrive from one of those perspectives. Looking at what we have been and what we have done is a great way to reconnect with a source of ideas and creativity…

They say you have to get to the bottom and start back. They say the bottom of a coffee cup says some kind of unexpected magic about the future. And so I looked at the bottom of this cup and…

I don’t know if this the place or not and I’ve been wondering. Sometimes it seems it is the right one and sometimes it feels like it’s not. Having, sharing, growing ideas isn’t a job, it isn’t a task you…

It is not what it is but what we make of it. The future, the planet, our ideas, our dreams only come true if we can give them a shape, if we can at least see that shape in our…

Creativity is somehow like filling in the missing piece, finding something for the empty moment of a day, understanding what needs to be there in which moment. As if life and our creative existence were part of a long line,…

What is it that makes us move, imagine, create? What is it that makes us believe, become, share? People make me so curious: I look at them and try to imagine what they think, what they dream, what they want….

I can see that, and I see it blurry… There are days where ideas and feelings are blurry, things are not easy to understand or figure out, the point seems complicated to get straight and right. Those are in my mind…

Creativity can show up in different forms and ways. I like to think that the more we try to go deeper, to explore, to open, to seek, to navigate, to share and to understand…the more things come up to the…

Ideas are like drops in the ocean. They are apparently very small, tiny, insignificant. Without every single drop, though, the ocean wouldn’t even be there.

Putting yourself at the center means sometimes letting go and giving space to yourself and gaining back the energy you need to actually make things happen. This blog and exercise are being a great way to reflect on things like…

Actually, a great question to ask yourself and an interesting answer to find. Once you know, you can start and complete whatever you want.

What if our next idea would be our final sale? What if whatever we are going to invent and create was the last piece we were putting on our list of priorities? Sometimes thinking about our next idea as a…

What we were looking for is not alwasy what we have in front of us. Sometimes it’s around it, sometimes is somewhere else, sometimes is just a shadow of the real thing. In creating, we need to focus not only…

Keeping our eyes open is essential to be able to remember therefor imagine and then create. Our eyes are the primary source of our feelings, it is where most things come through and reach our other senses and I always…

Ideas, like packages, sometimes get delivered in time and sometimes they don’t, they get lost or don’t find the address, get it wrong or a witness of somebody’s negligence. We have to just make our best to make sure we…

I like to think of ideas as one of many signs on a wall, a mix of things you can’t really understand or distinct but that are anyway delivering messages and emotions. The point with ideas, and graffiti, and emotions…it…

The challenge of doing something, no matter what it is, every single day is not an easy challenge. It is a rewarding one though for all that I learn, create, share. It is a habit, it becomes a need and…

Sometimes I wonder What is the right choice What makes a choice right And what that even means.

What’s the reason we do things? Why do we actually act, take initiative, create? I like to think that most of it it’s because of each of us. We mainly do things because something inside us is telling us to do…

It is a good practice to look at things through somebody else’s eyes. Especially when doing over and over the same thing, or when we have the sense that’s what’s happening, it is good to give it another view. And…

It’s one line connecting all of our ideas. It’s one line connecting all of our thoughts. It’s one line connecting all of the things. It’s one line connecting all of us. It’s one we need to look for, build, sustain,…

There’s some sort of beauty in death and decadence…and so it was for these sunflowers. Their deadly angle only made me think of beauty and romanticism as if in their death there was something fascinating and joyful. As if death,…

Just like wood for winter, we want a lot of options available for when our creative mind will be cold. Yet another metaphor, for one of the key concepts in creativity: always stack lots of different ideas, in an archive,…

A key factor in creativity and idea generation is to keep the ball rolling… There shouldn’t be any external or internal factor which stops us from doing, producing, ideating, putting out what we have in mind. And if there’s nothing…

There’s something deep and beautiful in imperfection. Just like when you do a tasty cake and it doesn’t look esthetically as good as it is in your mouth… And I want to celebrate that imperfection. The done better than perfect….

I find a lot of it being capable to live with the flow by accepting it. Having ideas, creating, realizing them…isn’t easy nor completely natural! It takes effort, energy, time, focus, luck…all the things I write about all the time….

It’s not that nothing is there, it is just that today it didn’t find its way to come out and the only thing I could think of was the dark, which is not necessarily always empty. The little lights in it…

If life is made of cycles and so is history, why not our creative processes? We go in cycles all the time with our creativity, from moments when everything comes our way easily and smoothly and others where we struggle….

One thing you want to make sure to do when creating and wanting to create something new all the time is to change your habits. Even this blog becomes more and more the same thing if I don’t pay attention…

Creating involves always at least something else along with an idea. An idea isn’t enough; surely a good start, it doesn’t complete the effort, it doesn’t take it to the end. An idea always needs something else to become reality…

Try. Something. New. Every. Single. Day.

Ideas are like rituals. You don’t know exactly why they are there and what you are doing with them, but you keep going back there and enjoy the experience, with a little bit of mystery involved.

I wonder what the fly wanted to tell me. And so I do thinking about ideas and how they arrive to me, in the middle of a reading or while running in the morning. It’s interesting to think that everything…

I like to think ideas are just like these ants looking for the right direction, inspiration, or knowing exactly where to go and what to do, moving and changing direction, helping each other and knowing exactly what to do individually,…

Ideas are always made of at least two essential pieces. There’s the spark of an idea. That thing we think it’s right, we develop into something else, we prototype into a draft of something. Then there’s the willingness to make it…

Many times it is about what guides us. In some cases, it’s just a number. You know it, you follow it, you get on the right path and to the right destination. In other cases, it is something else, and…

Sometimes looking at the mega we miss the mini and the other way around. I was looking at this picture where my main focus was the profile of the huge mountains against the even bigger blue sky. And while looking…

To create is to find the right path and follow it. Like when hiking, we plan where to go, we don’t always end up there or in the right direction, but there are signs we can follow to get it…

In order to create something new sometimes it is extremely useful to turn things upside down, to look at things from a different perspective, to find new angles. Sometimes, that doesn’t even come from you but from somebody else, and…

The more I think and write about this topic, how to have, generate, develop and deliver ideas, the more I understand about myself and some of my processes. To me, ideas are a way to express my “want to be”…

Things only really work if you put care in it. You have to love what you are doing, care about it, put effort, yourself in them. It takes time and patience and dedication to do it. It’s a practice, and…

I’m not as scared by a blank page as much as I am by a black one. A white page is scary because it often seems hard or impossible to fill, but at least is a source of possibilities and…

Creating looks a little bit like traveling. You have to know where you are gong ideally before doing your luggage and making plans.  Just the same way as we plan for a trip we need to prepare for a creative…

It is a good practice to go back to what we have done and we have not practiced for a long time. It helps to open our horizons again, to imagine new possibilities, to give space to memories and past…

Ideas are like wood. You see them as concrete and tangible. You use them and enjoy them. Then they become ashes and all you see is what you are able to remember.

I wrote other times about what inspires me in writing this blog or where I get the ideas to write about how to have ideas. One of my ways is to notice what I notice first. It isn’t necessarely the…

I see things and sometimes they talk to me. Then I listen to what they have to say. Images, most of the time, have something to say, something to tell me specifically. That’s what happens with this blog and how…

I ask myself this question very often: why? Why am I doing what I’m doing? Why does it matter? Why should I keep doing it? It is like looking at yourself in the mirror and accept what you find there….

Look around, look behind, look with care, look! Ideas are all around us and often our task is just to see them and grab them. I do the same for these posts: I walk around and live my life until…

Never forget what’s important for you and for others: that’s the only thing that’s relevant.

If there’s one thing that’s relevant and essential in creating something, either every day or every now and then it’s finding the right balance. A balance between effort and breaks, intensity and slowness, running and walking. It is so essential…

Nothing’s easier than just learning from them, from kids. They know how to dream wildly and without limits, without prejudice and happily. They know how to go for what you want and need without asking for permission and without too much…

We all set our standards for what happiness looks like and we should never forget the context we live in to set those standards. Being happy with what we are and what we have is essential. Creativity often comes from a…

Wholeheartedness. When we feel something, we never get tired of it. If we like it, we do it and we smile while doing it. That’s the only secret: to idea generation, to creativity, to success and, more easily, to personal…

Today is one of those days where an image will talk for me, where the post is a transition, where the idea is just an excuse to not stop doing it, where a flower in the middle of cement and…

Everything we do is a reflection of who we are. Our creations should always be. It doesn’t really matter if we are telling a story about us, it is ALWAYS about us. Ideas come from what we are and sometimes that’s…

Never forget where you come from. Never let it go. Never regret it. Every single step we have done in the past was a small window into our future and we were already designing, although we didn’t know at the…

Ideas grow from places that are often unexpected, unintentional and unplanned and so we should live them. Don’t wait for them to come, just notice where they are already growing and use them.

Creativity is just like a candy: it tastes good and sweet way before you open it, and it only gets better once you actually try it out.

Ideas shouldn’t have too much calculation behind them. If it’s true they are the expression of our feelings and thoughts they should be just a reflection of them. By that, I mean that the fear we (I?) have sometimes of…

We can’t control things, we can only set things for the best and wait. Being nice and acting with good intentions always pays back and it’s amazing how that happens smoothly and always. It is hard though, and worth it….

It’s up to you. Take risks and go ahead, do it, try it hard, then try harder. Creating, having ideas, translating them into action and something tangible in general is really up to you at the end of the day….

Sometimes it’s only a matter of choosing the right colour for an image, something that works with what’s next or nearby, something that matches the moment or the spirit, something that talks more than anything else in that very moment….

That’s what’s about to create: putting the pieces together. We have pieces of ideas every single day: they show up as a complete piece, or separate details totally disconnected, sometimes they show up in different moments but with the same…

It is our task as creators to identify and amplify beauty. It is one of my favourite things to look outside the window of a car or a bus or a train and see what reveals to me. Colours, shapes,…

When I go to a live concert I often think about why I do it. What is relevant in listening to music I already know, sometimes even too well, in a live version? What’s the difference in the performance, especially…

I like symmetry. I like geometry. I like lines. I like shapes. I like hidden signs. I like bright colours. I like unexpected patterns. I like dots. I like the streets. I like concrete. I like patterns. I like what we…

What happens when your idea gest lost? I started to have a sketch/notebook when I was around 17. I started noticing a lot of ideas were showing up and then suddenly disappearing. Ideas were giving me a sign and then going…

There are days when it’s hard, I get it. You might be tired, sad, upset…and what to do with it? Well, creativity and the act of creating can actually help. It is, after all, a way to convey and bring…

Sometimes all you have to do is to let the day pass and wait for the night to bring it for you.

Sometimes, when you are doing something every day or creating in general, you get a sense of being in a loop. Now, a loop can be viewed as a trap: something you can’t escape from, something you can’t avoid, something similar to…

When you don’t know where to start, go classic! Going classic means going back to the basics, to what’s simple and essential. Classics help us create without putting too much effort, without struggling and with a low level of stress….

Your future is in your hands. You decide what’s right and what’s wrong. It’s up to you to act and make things happen. In your hands resides every decision and every move. Your freedom is in liberating your hands and…

I’m personally a big fan of changing your seat in the workplace: I do it all the time and encourage others to do it. Changing your chair will change many little things. It will change your view, therefore your perspective on…

I consider myself a shy person. The kind of person who doesn’t show up at parties, who don’t take the lead in a conversation, who likes to follow more than lead. Shyness is often a way to protect our feelings…

Doing one thing a day is a lot about learning how to stay up and don’t actually give up. Part of this exercise is about observing our limits and see where I can get: limits help to understand where we…

We all have our own way of doing things and that’s probably one of the first things to consider when creating something. Do it your way! Consider suggestions, insights, experience, context and all the rest…but ultimately, do it the way…

The Creative Process is about a cycle and we are at the centre of it. We can make big things that attract attention as much as small things people get attracted by. Explore something in details and notice how people…

We need variety, an abundance of opinions, different points of view. To create means not to focus our energy on one thing and narrowing our attention. To create means opening to possibilities and different voices, listening to every side of our…

One way to go when stuck with your idea(s) is to take what you have and deconstruct it, basically break it into pieces. The “thing” might not make sense by itself, but its pieces will if you look carefully. First,…

…Everything goes down. It’s not so much about the pill or the sugar as much as it is about finding your way. What makes it sweet and doable for you? What makes the difference in what you have to do…

Never forget to look in between things and not only in their face. Often, what’s hidden in between is far more interesting and stimulating then what you see in the first place, bot because it’s new for you and for others who…

Something you want to be working when is the right moment is the technology you need to use. We still test all the markers we use way before using them, to make sure we have what we need and it’s…

Time is often one of our best friends. We don’t always need to do all the job as time will volunteer to be our best support. We can plan and execute and then over time our inventions will take a…

One of the best moments to create is while waiting. Those moments when we have to wait for something to happen, turn out to be the ones with more potentials. Because our brain is lost in the moment, is empty…

There are those days and times when everything and every force seems to be going in the wrong direction, or in general against our will. Those days and times are the ones that require the biggest effort in finding our…

Procrastination isn’t itself a bad thing. I often procrastinate with something to give myself the time and the chance to think deeper, to digest an idea or to let it stay with me long enough so that I can get a…

I used to hate grey skies and rainy days. I used to change my mood and my approach to the day based on the weather and specifically based on the colour of the sky. Shades of grey have always made…

Sometimes is all about the little things. You don’t need major events or showy things to be happy and satisfied: if we take the time to look deeper we’ll find out the little things are the ones that make the difference….

The devil is in the details…no doubt! Details are boring, often uncomfortable, hard to face and to manage. Details are what make our whole more interesting and valuable though, and we should never under consider them. Details are there even…

Most of the success in whatever you do resides in how much you practice it. Practicing something over and over, discovering new aspects and angles, experimenting with the unknown and challenging your own assumptions, is the best way to create…

One thing a day is about a good strategy for sure. A strategy that helps you plan for the details and for the inconvenience. A strategy that helps you shape a vision and execute. A strategy which involves risk-taking and…

Yes, it ain’t easy. Sometimes creating is a real challenge and we face it with all of us. That’s when all other tools and suggestions come our way and show us possible solutions and options; that’s when we need to…

Those days when you can’t see clearly just accept and enjoy the view. That’s the best thing you can do.

Instructions. The best way to have ideas: TRY THINGS OUT. The best way to see if it’s worth it: SHARE IT. The best way to see if it’s good: DO IT AGAIN. The best way to refine it: SLEEP ON…

Ideas are like lightning strikes: you see them passing by, you admire them, you know they will come back but you can’t always know exactly when. What enables us to keep an idea and make it tangible transforming it into…

What’s REALLY important is that whatever you do, every day or often, in life and as a job, is something you like doing. It isn’t given that this happens and we shouldn’t only aim for it in everything we do but…

Once you start you can’t stop as the path is already there and all you have to do is to follow it. Creating, whether is one thing every day or something in general, is about getting it started and having a…

The best satisfactions arrive from our own garden. How beautiful, fascinating and magic is to grow your own passions and talents and see them transform into something tangible and new. In doing things and creating ideas, all we have to…

Sometimes we find out all we need is to follow our heart, our energy, our desires and our instinct, and nothing else is needed: no plans, no to-do lists, not obligations or big goals. Creativity and creation are about the…

So much about not being shy and being brave, and I yet find myself in this place, hidden behind a curtain of time and space. But yes, thank you…my only answer to feedback. This post is about how important it…

It isn’t really up to us to set our limits, in what we dream, do or plan to realize. We can do all these things and shouldn’t set any limit so that everything is, in theory, doable and the rest…we…

There’s no doubt a lot of this blog is about Doing. Doing as an act of creation, of feeling alive and active, of experimenting and learning, of putting things out in the world and look at the reaction. I’m not…

            Sometimes our ideas don’t come out just because we are too shy to show them to the rest of the world. Being shy isn’t so much about how we feel about our work as…

Sometimes, especially when you let it go a bit and find a space for rest, abstraction can come your way and help. This is to say we don’t necessarily need to be creating something amazing and meaningful every single time…

So many times the process saved my life just because I trusted it, and the latest was today. I sometimes forget how important it is to have a process in place we can rely on and relate to at any…

One thing I definitely find useful while creating is to be good at archiving. An archive isn’t only good to make sure you don’t lose what you are working on and everything you create in general, but also and mostly…

Part of the practice is to find new ways, new paths, new insights and that’s something we should be trying every day. I find useful and necessary for me to be part of the ones who are trying something new…

I basically write everything I learn and apply every day in this blog. I write what I notice and what I think is worth sharing, hoping that it will lead to some great ideas and will inspire people going through…

There are times when all you can do is using what you have. And that’s often already pretty good! This is to say that of course, we can create all the rules and precautions we want, but in the moment…

Inspiration comes from anything and can be found anywhere. I’m not only convinced of this but I also believe it is the only way things actually happen. Everything in our world happens all the time: things move, change, adapt, switch,…

There are times when the conditions or the energies don’t help you get the right idea. I consider those moments a great opportunity for recycling. In fact, what we can do in days and moments like those is to look…

Ultimately, doing something everyday becomes a parallel life. And, even if it’s not a project and it’s not defined like that, everything we do everyday becomes our daily objective. We live our lives and sometimes we are lucky enough that…

I talk about the center as the place we need in order to be. We can move around and live in uncertainty, but especially if we want to create anything we need to find a center. See it as a…

In going through one of the many versions of the archetypes available out there, the one that talks about sovereign, warrior, magician, and lover, I do get fascinated by this last one the most. I connect the Lover energy to…

Everything we do has a value not to be underestimated. Even more, everything we do that’s custom-made, made for the occasion, designed for the circumstances, imagined, especially for the purpose…whos some kind of magic! A few things show more care,…

When we are stuck with something, being an idea, a project of work or life, a decision…one great thing to do is to change your perspective. This sounds as banal as effective. There’s nothing better than taking a step back,…

This is about backup plans. Taking so many airplanes we forget to listen to emergency instructions, or just don’t want to…or we give up on reading them. I’ve always been curious about them, I like to spot the little differences…

There’s always a window to be found, metaphorically or realistically speaking. There’s the window that we notice while taking a walk because it says something about those who are behind it or hide any kind of secret; windows that tell stories and…

There’s a series of pictures I take randomly and they are about shapes of the city that look like or remind me faces. They are hidden angles of cities and corners of the globe, little details not many notice, but…

One thing is clear when you want to do something every day, when you are trying to apply your knowledge, to develop new skills, to push your boundaries. You should never stop trying and mostly, loving what you are doing….

Working with ideas is like floating in the air without a destination. Most of the times we don’t know where we will be finding our ideas or where they will be coming from. Mostly, we see them coming and recognize…

Things aren’t always in the right place. We can’t always find them in the place we think they would be. Things move around and play with us all the time: we don’t choose them, they choose us. And so it…

I learned that by observing others I learn more than by looking for something anywhere else. This has to do with my profession where I can learn how to do or better do something by observing someone else doing it….

Some things take time and you need to leave them the time needed to happen. Sometimes it means letting it go and just observe what’s going on from a distance.

What’s really important when dealing with ideas and almost anything else, from sports to projects, from life to thoughts, is the start. It is the point where everything starts seeing a light or a direction and we get more conscious…

There’s something fascinating in chaos and in what chaos can bring you. We tend to think chaos is equal disorder and means something is unplanned and unorganized. Chaos is indeed a state of confusion, but who said confusion is a…

Looking for ideas is like going through a tunnel where vision isn’t always clear. In fact, you can’t always predict how long a tunnel is until you are in it and you start seeing bits of light coming through. Some tunnels are…

To make things and make things happen we need to make sure we stay steady on the ground but, also and almost more importantly, we need to be able to fly with our mind. This means our ideas don’t only…

Just like wood, our thoughts should be strong and resistant but also flexible and adaptable. Especially when working on ideas and new projects, there’s no point in standing where we believe is right and not move or change. We need to…

Everything is, after all, and indeed, a matter of practice. We depend on what we do, on how much we do, on the time we are willing to spend and invest in practicing something. That something depends on our practice,…

While we do what we do we often wonder how it will look. We plan and design and iterate and create with the end in mind, with an image of the final result and how that will look like for…

Exhaustion, stress, not enough sleep, multitasking, strong emotions, lots of movement… All of these are elements that help create a crisis in our idea generation process. They are indeed indicators that our status is not ideal for our ideas to…

There’s time to do things and there’s the time in between. The time in between is as useful and important and essential as the time itself. In between things, there’s time too and we can use it in many different…

I’m a big fan of to-do lists and detailed plans. I love spending and investing time to put together all the pieces I need to create the bigger picture. I enjoy making mental sketches of ideas and prototype versions of a…

Traveling is one of the best ways to get ideas going. I find the source of inspiration of a trip, anywhere, a rich and amazing source. I find that when I travel I find inspiration easily everywhere. Ideas and inspiration…

Just like in a fairy tale, in our dreams, anything can happen. And since are our dream that translates into our reality, most of the times, it is important to believe in fairy tales! This is the thing. Our ideas,…

Creativity doesn’t wait, it is always there and in need of expression. There are days where you wouldn’t expect for it to show up or say something and that’s when you don’t have to do anything, not a single move….

When we need to come up with an idea for something, especially if every day or just often, there’s no doubt that mess can help. Less can help too, but not always provide a solution. Mess does provide options and…

I believe in forces. Forces driving our lives, our decisions, our behaviors. Forces influencing our destiny, our moves, our broader future. I believe there are moments we need to focus on ourselves, on our own forces and energies and do…

There’s a capacity we all need to develop as makers or idea developers. That capacity is about understanding if what shines is gold or not. Not that everything has to be gold, quite the opposite! We need to develop the talent…

Sometimes there isn’t much to say about talent, luck, intuition, ideas, and sharing. Sometimes it isn’t much more than doing our job, which is about…doing! It is by doing that we learn, it is by doing we test and iterate,…

It is not about what you achieve as much as how you get there. Milestones are a great way to add data to your CV but they are not what makes you what you are. We need to be able…

It is indeed about the journey, not the destination. At least that’s what they say. And I agree, even more, today. We should keep this in mind along the journey and in our lives, never forget what’s relevant in what…

Ideas are like pieces of a puzzle. Our job as creators, creatives and human beings is to constantly play the game of putting these pieces together in the best way possible, following our instinct, our nature and our heart. There…

It’s always good to ask yourself this question. It helps define where you are and where you want to be. It helps to identify a filter for your decisions and your actions. What are you looking for in the creative action?…

There’s always a door in our lives as well as in our creative processes. The door that keeps you protected from what’s outside and unknown. Or the door that invites you in and doesn’t immediately show what’s behind it. Doors…

One of the basic rules is: count on yourself. Whatever you do or plan to do, there isn’t anyone or anything more reliable than yourself. Technology, tools, plans, friends, references…they can all collapse, sooner or later, or disappear. They are…

I just want to say that one would follow what he or she is passionate about. I love symmetry I just love things that balance each other, images that provide a sense of coherence and simple convergence of lines and…

I’ve been writing a lot about how to get your ideas and how we can come up with something. I’ve been doing lists and sharing thoughts about where ideas come from and why and how. I had the chance to share…

The best way to let something new come our way is to let something else go. For me, it is about letting go what doesn’t need to be there at that specific moment. It is the “too much” or “too many”…

Ideas don’t come from “nothing”. They come from “something”. That something can be in what we do every day, in some habits, in a comfortable place. It can be something we practice all the time or in something we are…

Accept what comes. Accept it’s not enough or way too much. Accept what it is. Accept what it becomes. Accept it won’t be the last time. Accept what it isn’t. Accept what it brings to you. Accept what it takes away…

What I always want to have available is a variety of options and possibilities. I want to be able to choose between several different options and never find myself in a place of emptiness. I find variety comes also and…

When looking for an idea I try to go back to the core of the request, this being from myself or from someone else. The core is where the origin of every idea resides, is where the light of anything…

There isn’t one condition that helps to create and one would think that the ideal one is to be steady at your desk and think and reflect and generate thoughts. In many cases, though, idea come while running somewhere else and…

One of the things that I’m most fascinated by about idea generation is how casual it is sometimes the process of coming up with something. I find that is always and never by chance, it is always a combination of…

I notice how a few things influence my attitude and behavior: weather and time. I think I have a really good relationship with time: I think that time is a condition we can’t change and just by acting that way we…

We don’t always enjoy what we do and we ask ourselves whether what we are doing is the right thing or not. They say if you like what you do for a living you will not work one day of…

It is not important to win as much as it is to participate. You have to be there, you only have to show up and be present. There isn’t much else to do.  Ideas run with you, around you, in…

Let’s say I prefer abundance to scarcity (which will receive its full consideration in another post). Abundance can sound like too much or not needed, like something in addition to what’s just enough. Abundance with a negative meaning and message,…

There’s a joke from when I was a kid about the child who wants to show his mom how he’s able to go on the bike without his hands and then without his feet and then…without his teeth! These posts…

Ideas are there waiting for us and they are much more resistant than we are. Like a flower in the snow, they know how to find their way and resist; they adapt to the conditions they find and finally find…

Many times, looking for an idea, we stop in front of the first thing we see or we come up with. It’s almost like being on this side of a window, seeing through it and not being able to get…

There are moments that aren’t anywhere. Those moments where we are suspended in between thoughts, places, time. Those moments where don’t feel anything but the transition in which we are. While traveling, those are often moments we spend in airports…

As I look around me guessing where the idea for today will come from, I see it coming in a detail, as often happens. Ideas are there, we just don’t (always) see them. Just like if it was normal, somebody…

Those days where it’s clear there’s nothing out there but rain and nothing in here but things to do, I go back to memories. I basically cover my intention of creating something completely new with a middle way solution: a cover….

To write these posts I am driven mostly by images I see. And that’s also the way I often come up with ideas: I would see something that eventually suggests something else. What often happens is that we get lost in…

Why can’t “Thinking out of the window” be as good as “Thinking out of the box”? For me they are the same thing, in both cases, you are looking for what’s not necessarily next to you, for what is out of…

I love traveling. I love discovering new places as much as I like finding again the ones I know well. I think of traveling as the greatest opportunity to open ourselves to what’s out there and we miss every day…

As I run my longest run in the foggy hills in an early Sunday morning around Bologna, I wonder if that kind of solitude looks like anything I feel when creating. Creation is a process you can share with others, both at…

Reflecting on what this blog and these posts are about I wonder which part of me is making this work. Is it the one that works every day and is busy doing other stuff? Is it the creative person who…

To have ideas I need to focus. And that’s not even true, I need to have space, and space is sometimes time, sometimes physical space, sometimes tools…or all of them together. It is a series of attempts that I need to…

I often find myself overwhelmed by things to do or that I’m simply thinking about. Ideas (indeed), issues, lists, requests, e-mails, thoughts…And when in that condition, I feel it’s hard to choose. In another post, I wrote about being able…

It is an attitude. I’m convinced having ideas and creating is the result of an attitude much more than something we have, are or can find anywhere. It has to do with how we wake up in the morning and…

“Never, never, never give up” Winston Churchill used to say. Same thing with ideas. You don’t want to give up until the end until you actually managed not to give up and come up with something. It is like the…

I’m amazed by how many different vantage points we can look at things from. Just by moving from one corner to the other or by closing an eye, or laying down on the floor instead of standing. That’s what happened…

Then there are those days when you need to stop and close everything. How do you make that happen if you still have stuff going on? What if you have something that goes up daily and you want to take a…

There are ideas that need to be screamed out. You can’t just let them happen or be, they mean a lot to you and they are loud; that all makes you scream. Scream with all your voice to make it…

When things don’t come your way, just Love Harder. They will come to you.

Sometimes I don’t understand where ideas come from and I don’t really care to know. It’s like trying to read a piece of paper full of notes too little to read, too hard to interpret, too confused to be put in…

The voice that’s harder for me to ignore is my own. I tend to judge, coach, suggest things to myself all the time and that’s probably the voice I need to be careful listening to while creating. It can stop…

There are those days where all I have to do is to focus on something else than having ideas. They are those days where I focus on getting inspired, on just have a good time with those I love and meet…

Each of us finds inspiration in something different. Inspiration itself can be different for each of us one day from the other. Inspiration is an energy and not a thing, hence it changes over time and influences us in different ways….

Generating ideas can be hard, especially is it’s your job. Part of this blog is an exploration of how ideas come to life and one reflection I often do is about partnerships. Finding the right people to create with is…

When creating ideas I want to make sure I have choices available. There are all sorts of choices we can create at all different levels. We can look for variety, creating a display of options we can fish from when…

What should we do when we look for inspiration? Making a list is NEVER a bad idea. Lists help you find out what you are missing and what needs to be prioritized. Lists help you see clearly and clean up…

Where do ideas come from? Mostly, I believe, from our feelings. From what we see, experience and, above all, from what we feel. Our feelings influence our thoughts and our decisions, they can change our lives in a moment or…

How many times do we tell ourselves “I’m too busy to do it”? That’s a lie. We are never too busy to do something and the real trick is in organizing our time. By priority, by importance, by meaning…you can…

I like to eventually go back to images from my childhood and observe what they tell me. I wonder what that kid was thinking and dreaming and if those thoughts and dreams are now a reality. I can’t remember and…

Courage is not about the absence of fear but being able to face it and deal with it. This is a key principle for me when dealing with idea generation and I always want to keep in mind that my…

Sometimes coming up with an idea is not about what you have to build or create but about identifying what’s missing. It is about analyzing what you have and finding the empty spot and its meaning. It is about looking for…

I need to be able to count first of all on myself when looking for an idea. I need to feel that trust and energy that will eventually create something, that will let the unconsciousness of my creativity to emerge. I…

Behind every idea, there’s definitely an effort of some kind. Ideas don’t come by themselves and they don’t just happen. My yoga teacher was joking today about how much I sweat while just holding a position without even moving: it…

I find that sometimes the worst enemy of my ideas is myself. Ideas need space and freedom to emerge and the only way to block them from coming is to deny them the space they need. Even further, I sometimes feel that…

Where we work and create is important. The environment we act within is essential to create the conditions to ideate and develop new ideas. It is important to create these conditions and work in a space that helps creativity to express…

As I’m preparing for my first Marathon I think a lot. Running helps thinking and I like to take my thoughts and ideas and put them in my brain closet. I classify them by theme and priority and keep repeating…

The secret is to never say no. Never say no to an idea that comes your way, never decline an invitation to create, invent, dream. It’s usually very tiny and it doesn’t have a lot of energy, just like a…

Where do ideas come from? This is the main question I’m exploring in this posts and I keep asking it to friends and colleagues, clients and peers. Ideas come in movement. They don’t come from staying in front of a…

Each time I take the chance to take a break in nature it reminds me how important it is for my body and mind to do so. Connecting with nature, feeling part of a  system that’s larger than our daily…

Everything we do ends, sooner or later. I used to want to keep what I was doing and feeling sad when having to let it go. I learned to love the momentary feeling of satisfaction for something I have done,…

So that’s what I’m doing: I’m writing. I never considered myself a great writer nor a great reader and that’s what I recently started to do more intensively. The final ambition of this Blog is to have enough good material to…

I put so much effort into what I do that sometimes I forget to let it go. This often happens when I start drawing: it is so important to me that the final result is clean, close to perfection, showing care but also…

When you have one of those days where nothing comes your way, looking for it too hard probably isn’t worth it. One way to go is to take a break and zoom out. You can zoom out in many ways…

For everything we do, there’s a thought behind. We create our own mental image of an idea, a project or a dream, and fight to make it happen. It is by putting together this list of images that we shape…

You have at least one secret power in your hands. This is fundamental to generate ideas. This is why I’m writing this Blog. Writing is not my strength, nor was shooting or editing videos, or drawing human faces. This is…

Love is powerful. Love moves mountains and ideas. Ideas are a result of love and care. You have to love what you are doing to make it beautiful, and sometimes even just to make it. It is important to both…

This is indeed one of my favorite quotes and I use it all the time. Is it better to get something perfect, with the risk of not getting it on time or at all; or is it better to just…

There’s nothing better than a friend to support you getting things done. She or he can be your touching point to check in for your idea, to validate your intuitions, to track your progress just by asking how it’s going…

Then there is a moment where you realize all you have to do is to follow the instructions. Indeed, your own instructions. What you want to do, though, is to be as clear as much as you can about them,…

I really think it’s never too late. To do something you thought you forgot how to do. To fall in love with something wild and irrational. To try something for the first time, or as if it was for the…