I recently read that this Sunday is the World Creativity and Innovation Day. To be honest, this was the first time I was coming across this day, so I did a little reading about it.

Celebrated in the week of the birth anniversary of the modern renaissance man, Leonardo Da Vinci, the World Creativity and Innovation day was first celebrated last year in 2018 by the United Nations and will continue to mark 21 April each year to encourage creative multidisciplinary thinking to help us achieve the sustainable future we want.

According to the UN, the observance is meant to encourage creative multidisciplinary thinking for a sustainable future.

The UN holds that creativity and innovation, at both the individual and group levels, have become the true wealth of nations in the 21st century.

On this day, the United Nations urges the world to embrace the idea that innovation is essential for harnessing the economic potential of nations. Innovation, creativity and mass entrepreneurship can provide new momentum for economic growth and job creation. It can expand opportunities for everyone, including women and youth. It can provide solutions to some of the most pressing problems such as poverty eradication and the elimination of hunger according to the UN.

The World Creativity and Innovation Day provides us an excuse to try to solve old problems in new ways with the potential of finding better and more effective ways to accomplish our goals! No more hum-drum day to day sameness!

Creativity and innovation are beneficial in every walk of life, and every career. From those in customer service finding ways to improve their customer’s experience, to scientists who’s every work day is filled with learning new things about the world and finding new ways to apply it, to politicians who could use their creativity to find new ways to solve problems and aid the public. World Creativity and Innovation Day encourages everyone to imagine a different world with different solutions.

How to celebrate World Creativity and Innovation Day?

Start the day out by brainstorming, sit down and think of all the things you do during the day and how you might change them for the better. Throughout your day keep a notepad handy for ideas that occur to you, whether they are for your own use, or ways that other people can do things better. Got an idea for your local municipality? Send it to them and let them know how you think it may benefit everyone. Got a new idea for your workplace? Inform your bosses and see what they have to say? Got a new plan for you? Set it in motion and see where your creativity gets you. World Creativity and Innovation Day could be the day that set your life on a whole new path!

The World Creativity and Innovation Day was established to encourage everyone to dig deep and find their own inner da Vinci. So do try and find you own inner creative genius this weekend! For more ideas on how you can be more creative at home, work or school, click the link to the World Creative and Innovation Week