How to Be Creative: 6 steps

This wikiHow article provides some great ideas, with pictures! Here's the introduction:

Creativity can't be taught, but you can get better at aligning the circumstances that foster the greatest chances for creative expression. Creativity is not like a lightning strike, but more like something which bubbles up inside those who can create the right conditions for it to prosper.

And the steps--described at the website in much more detail:

1. Limit your tools to only the most vital. 
2. Don’t listen to feedback.
3. Having a routine may not actually be a bad thing.
4. Let go of perfectionism.
5. Ignore trends.
6. Ignore the past.

Some Creative Exercises and additional Tips follow those steps. 

BTW, I wasn't familiar with wikiHow. Here's a description of it where people can edit articles:

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This article is featured today, March 15, in my daily online paper, Garbl's Creativity Connections, available at the Creativity tab above and by free email subscription.