We attach significance to the turning of the calendar, and when the calendar turns to a new year, it means more than learning to change a digit when we write a check we’ve started a new chapter.

According to the dictionary, “Continuing professional development is the means by which members of professional associations maintain, improve and broaden their knowledge and skills and develop the personal qualities required in their professional lives.” Continuing professional development ensures that professionals keep developing their knowledge and skills, as well as improve their competence.

This article will give you specific ideas on how to take a vacation in the spring or any other time of the year without booking any travel at all.

If you are reading this article, however you found it; I know something about you. You have a desire, perhaps even a burning one, to assimilate new information in hopes that the new information will improve your results.

Go to your local newsstand and pick up magazines you wouldn’t ever read and read them for ideas, connections and trends. This is an often repeated example of using outside stimulus as a way to jumpstart our creativity. This article is an example of someone following this process to heighten creativity.