GET INSPIRED IN 2016

SHOWER MORE It will boost your creativity, according to Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire, authors of Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind ( Perigree), $ 27, bookstores and amazon. com starting Dec. 29. Go to Parade. com/ wired for 10 things innovators do differently.

CLEAN YOUR ENTRANCEWAY Your whole house will feel better, says Marie Kondo, the ( in) famous sock folder and author of a new tidying manifesto, Spark Joy ( Ten Speed Press). “If the entranceway is filled with shoes and other things, the atmosphere in the home will be suffocating,” she says. $ 19, bookstores and amazon. com starting Jan. 5. Go to Parade. com/ sparkjoy for more organizing tips.