When you want to get creative to market yourself, whether with a better written resume, new topics for a personal blog, coining interesting posts on Facebook or Twitter, or updating your LinkedIn profile, remember creativity is like a muscle. It has to be exercised and given freedom to go outside the lines. Here are several ways to allow your more linear thinking habits to take a break:

• Brainstorm with a friend or co-worker
• Rearrange your desk
• Drive a different way home from work
• Use your 5 senses by taking a walk outside
• Create a word by combining, adding letters, or deleting letters
• Play a strategy game to let you mind take a break (here are several we created)