A) Awareness: Become aware of who you are and what you like, P) Prompts: Triangulate that with some outside prompts, L) Let whatever messiness flow that your brain needs to get creative, O) Open to others’ messiness, too, M) Marinate: Creativity desperately needs elongated time, and then finally B) Blueprint: Use a Creativity Notebook to write down what you’ve learned so you don’t have to keep it in your already overwhelmed brain.