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Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Creativity and the Excitement of Life
by: Helene Rothschild

Are you allowing yourself to express your creativity? When you were growing up, were your creative expressions discouraged? Would you like to express that part of you and experience more of the excitement of life?

As a Marriage, Family Therapist for many years, I was able to assist many men, women and children to awaken this dormant part of them. They often had negative beliefs based on negative experiences that caused them to shut down their wonderful creativity. The clients shared with me how they always felt something gnawing at them that needed to be expressed.

With the creative HART (Holistic and Rapid Transformation) process I developed, I was able to help them remove their blocks so that they could allow their creative juices to flow.

For example, Joyce, a fifty-five-year-old woman was retiring from her computer job at a college. She came to me because she did not know what to do with her life. I intuitively picked up that she was a singer. When I told her, "You are a singer," she burst into tears and cried uncontrollably for about five minutes.

When Joyce was able to compose herself, she shared with me how much she loved to sing but stopped in her teen years. Her well meaning parents discouraged her from pursuing a singing career. They insisted that she go to college to learn skills and have a career in something that offered her security and a good living. In fact, her parents refused to attend her singing performances in the high school plays.

From that negative experience, Joyce felt hurt and rejected. She decided that when she sings she is not loved. To stop the pain that she felt from that negative thought, she gave up singing. The teen-ager buried a beautiful part of her along with her hurt feelings. However, they were still in her unconscious and still affecting her.

The impressionable daughter succumbed to her parents' pressure and followed their dreams. "I always wondered why I always felt something missing in my life, Helene," said Joyce. Her tears of sadness changed to tears of joy, as she smiled brightly with the thought of singing again and enjoying a part of her that she had buried a long time ago.

Are you ready to awaken or reawaken your unexpressed creativity? It may be in art, music, crafts, needlework, writing, inventions, cooking, speaking, etc. There is no limit to creativity. Our minds (logic) are in our left brain, and our creativity flows from our right brain which is also the feeling, intuitive, and spiritual part of us.

The following poem can support you to enjoy more of your creativity.
My Creativity
I am...
1) Expressing my creativity.
2) Allowing myself to be creative for the joy of it.
3) Realizing that my creativity comes from my spirit which is my unlimited, all knowing part.
4) Continuing to express my unique creativity no matter what anyone says or does.
5) Balancing my life so that I have time for my creativity.
6) Accepting that being creative for the fun of it is time well spent.
7) Enjoying the excitement of life.
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Thursday, December 06, 2007
Success - An Objective And Promise
by: Donald Yates

Our Objective And Promise I believe in you because you are a creature of God. Our objective in writing this series of articles is to assist you in: Developing a deeper understanding and heightened relationship with God Developing more clearly defined goals in all areas of your life Developing a clear, written plan of action for success Developing a more positive attitude about yourself and the opportunities that abound around you Developing the skills necessary for you to achieve your personal and professional goals Developing internal motivation to reach those defined personal goals Our promise is to: Help you develop an inner passion for achievement. Help you to visualize that which is now and that which is to come. Help you build on the hope that is for your future Help you find your hidden skills and passions Help you find your inner self Help you develop a meaningful working relationship with God and your fellow man But Wait! - Who are we kidding?

Let’s face it; these objectives and promises are not worth the paper they are written on, without you. The catalyst in the equation is you. It’s you that makes it all worthwhile and brings God’s promises into an experience. We must have your undivided attention, willingness to participate, desire to succeed, fortitude to stay the course and most of all – believe in yourself and the possibilities. Make no mistake, no one can make it happen for you and quite frankly most people don't care if you make it or not. The reality is, in most instances, people want to see you fail. They don’t want to see you elevate above them. Sound harsh – well it's sad but true. In other words, that which effects you is governed by you and nothing is going to happen in your life without your participation. I guarantee you won’t be successful if you simply think you can read some information and not put it into action. If you think there is some magic ray that enters your brain while you sleep and you will suddenly wake up a success. Then, my friend, you are doomed to a life of mediocrity.

Success is a personal challenge that God places before you; you have to work for it. Each advance in God’s creation requires some effort on the participants part. God’s laws are open to everyone, believers and non-believers. Don’t think just because you are a believer, God’s laws are proprietary to Christians; they are not. God’s laws are indifferent; they are cause and effect or the action in choice. That's why bad people succeed, they have uncovered the secret. Good people fail because they won't open their eyes to the truth.

Unfortunately, statistics show a great percentage of what is published in the world’s greatest self-help and how-to publications never gets read by most buyers and of the material contained is only partly or never practiced. Most people don't have enough belief or are just not self-disciplined enough to follow or study even the best laid out instructional concepts in the manuals and then implement them into their lives. That’s why higher learning institutions are so valuable and charge so much; they teach how to arouse the inner self to undisciplined people.. They also teach people how to focus on the task at hand. I can’t stress enough, if you do not discipline yourself in this effort it too will fall to uncertainty and ultimately disappointment. If you don't believe, failure becomes your bed partner What most people forget is that to become great at anything, you’ve got to get single minded. You have to define your target and fire the arrow straight and true.

First Law- the force needed to move an object is in direct proportion to its’ resistance. What does that mean? It simply means, “the harder you work the more you get.” But, there’s a saying, work smarter not harder that applies. Intelligent application overrides brute force. Also, necessity is the mother of invention. People are the only beings on earth that has the capacity to invent. Why? Because invention is discovering truth; a God inherited trait.

God may provide everything you need but it is still a test of your willingness; to see if you have the fortitude to carry out the task. Success is a test of endurance, desire, and commitment that always resist capture. Success is an elusive mistress who if not attended to, will betray you for another. The fact is, personal accomplishments, stewardship and financial success may go hand in hand but without a clear-cut course of action, they are nothing more than pipe dreams that are allusive and may never be achieved. They must first materialize in your mind before they will materialize physically. But, everything is relative as each action affects its’ own result while every problem contains its’ own answer. The answer has to be sought out and defined. A target may seem clear but is elusive until defined. It’s like a shadow; there is no substance until you define its parameters. There may be five targets set up on a target practice course but you would not know which to shoot at unless you identified your particular target. Be sure you are shooting at your target and not someone else’s. It is easy to mistakenly work toward someone else’s goal thinking all the while it is yours. Your alter ego does not want to see you successful. He is the Prince of darkness and great deceiver, he wants to deceive you into thinking being poor is being righteous. There is no virtue in being poor. Where have you ever heard that a poor man exemplifies Christ? Is God poor – I don’t think so!

Each goal or target is affected by cause and affect. This law of action contains forces that drive an object toward completion. The more rewarding the project is, the harder you have to work to obtain it. No one said it would be a bed of roses and you will get what you want on a silver platter. It takes hard work, which has and always will be the backbone of American success. Really, it’s no big deal; just keep focused on the brass ring. Even God worked, and worked hard, to bring His creation into a reality. He worked so hard he rested when he finished. And how about His passion for man? You can see it all around you, blue sky, green grass, the flowers, how beautiful they are.

It is time; all excuses are gone, you now have step up and grasp your key to freedom. Above all develop your personal high-powered guideline and motivator into a step-by-step plan. That's what it takes, nothing more nothing less. When I say step-by-step, I mean we can show you how each element of a broad goal can be broken down into its’ smallest parts, but, once you have defined the goal, do you have the passion to carry it through? Like a super star football player, you have to love the game and pursue it with a burning passion that only God can provide. You have to call the play, hike the ball and go for the touchdown. You have to ignite a fire in your heart for the achievement of being in His favor.

Before you start you must be sure, I mean absolutely sure, your goal is something you enjoy. Ask any successful person what their first prerogative is. It will always be that they are doing something they enjoy. It must make you happy because the only way to enjoy life is to be happy in it. Now, you now have the fuel for the fire but you still have to light the fire before it will burn. In the same since, preparation has to be made before feeding fuel to the fire. You have to make sure you don't start a wild fire and become radical at what you do. There is such a thing as self-containment and you have to be the master of it.

There is no mystery in success it is simply a series of tiny little steps, like any learning process small steps must take place before you can run. A baby does not start off walking’ it must experience crawling first. It takes groundwork, dedication and most of all, perseverance. How many times will a toddler fall? Once, twice a thousand times? See everyone else doing what you are striving for. You must desire it; recognize the desire and act upon the desire. I don’t mean, and I’ll say it over and over, just desire it; I mean I has to be a “burning desire”, a passion, like a super athletic desires the win. It becomes a personal thing; a demonstration to God you are worthy and you deserve it. It becomes a skirmish between you and the challenge at hand. Do you want to crawl around all your life while everyone else is running?

Who will be the victor, the old man and his habits or new man and his successes? Truly, people are a victim of their own meritocracies, their comfort zone, and their unwillingness to change. God provides, if you would only become His action partner. Nothing is ever left for chance; you can and will develop a clear picture of your future and the accomplishments contained there. Why? Because I believe in you. I believe you were destine to succeed. You will triumph, over all obstacles to become a Raven flying free from all bounds.

Make no mistake God wants you to prosper. He provides plenty and wants you to be happy in His abundance. He doesn’t want you to worry or fret over life, He gives abundantly so you may experience life as He intended it for you. He ask that you be grateful for His gift and give Him the glory for all you receive. Know who your contributor is and be happy in it. People cannot provide anything for themselves. God is the provider, people are partakers. It's a perfect relationship where everyone wins.

If you will allow, we hope to provide you with a stronger foundation for which you may define your goals, improve your out-look, and develop the personal and professional skills necessary to get the most out of your hidden talents and true potential. First you must change from within if you are to be permanently motivated. Desire comes from the heart, embraced, tested, tempered and trusted then, and only then will it move mountains. Here, you will find challenges and outright dares that will question your motives and drive you forward toward that which is rightfully yours.

Are You Ready?

What makes you think you are ready now, when you weren’t yesterday? What changed? What or who has held you back? Has your situation changed? Are you tired of the same old rut day-in-and-day-out? Are you tired of people calling you a loser? Are you tired of feeling like you failed that promise you made to your spouse way back when only the world was enough? You know, a rut is only a grave, open at both ends. What kind of and how deep is the rut you are in? What makes you think anything is going to be different tomorrow? Sure you want success, everyone does, but at the expense of what? Only a very few achieve it, why?

Everyone wants to be rid of financial worries, have good relationships and get rid of stress. . Right? Wrong! We are what we make ourselves. No one makes you fail; you are responsible for that. No one makes you a difficult person to get along with; you are responsible for that too. No one makes you dumb or less than anyone else; you do it to yourself. Well, when are you going to quit letting other people chart your course when you’re the caption of the ship? You have the wheel, plot your own course, define your direction in agreement with your desires and get on with it. Quit being a sniveling victim and be a supreme victor. Climb the mountain and claim the prize, be all God created you to be. After all, you were created in His image. Have faith, and endurance will come. Once you have clearly defined your compatible personal and professional goals they become an internal motivation, the skills required to achieve those goals become obvious. We can only provide a guideline in these dynamic series of articles to place you in the starting gate, and help put you on track so you may develop the personal and professional skills needed to activate more of your potential and achieve your personal goals for success. Make up your mind to run each race to win or don’t get in the race at all. You know where you have been, if you want to stay there then, so be it and you believe.

I refuse to believe you are like most people who choose to only tap a fraction of their capabilities and never even scratch the surface of possibilities lying dormant within them. We have never met yet if feel you. I feel your frustration your anger within yourself for not carrying through on promises made. The feeling of regret for lost years and lost dreams that melted away like fallen rain.

My God, my God, where are thou that you have allowed this person to succumb to a world of lofty presumptions? Have you turned away from this person and let the world become his/her master? Please Lord, please allow this wayward child to see the path of his/her rightful destiny, and pursue it with vigor. Than you Lord for the plenty you are about to display in this person's life. This I ask in his precious name, Amen.

In Conclusion

While the rewards of life hinge on doors of opportunity someone still has to swing them open. There is no one simple answer to all the problems of the world, there are only responses to questions. Mediocrity robs man of spirit while the soul cries for freedom. Yes, many people live lives of desperation that are dull, drab and uneventful. They never truly wake up from their self made destiny. I once knew a man who died and they revived him. He said it was like waking up for the first time. His life experience changed in a heartbeat. Everything was new and fresh, and he saw it in an entirely new light. His perception was from another place. Colors became more vibrant sounds were more crisp and everywhere he turned he saw opportunity. Before he saw only survival where potential reward was.

From the beginning, man has sought the truth. First in God and then within himself he has sought an understanding to a unanswerable question. From the earliest recorded literature, there have been arguments, debates and dissertations on what constitutes the ingredients of success. One common factor is that some action has to take place before success can result. A cause must be employed before one can progress toward effect. Some kind of act has to take place.
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6 Best Ways to Boost Your Creativity
By David W Richards


Either those working in a creative environment or those who don’t, must have had experienced a moment when they feel like they had nothing at all in their mind. They got blocked. They are stuck.
However, there are some steps that these people can try to get unblocked. They can even go back to being extremely creative.


All they have to do is simply:
1. Break off. Simply do nothing. Take your time. You might be overloaded. You might be stressed out. And, there is nothing better you can do than just stop doing anything. Take some time to enjoy yourself. Get a bubble bath or enjoy your most favorite food or go shopping. Anything that can make you feel relaxed.
2. Don’t be afraid to make changes. Change anything that you think is necessary. Change your working atmosphere. Change your way of doing the job. Change your way of thinking.
3. Believe in yourself. Don’t underestimate your capability. If once you could do it, then you can do it and you’ll always be able to do it. Keep in mind that you are a creative person. Don’t ever think the opposite.
4. Play with what seem to be impossible ideas. Try to. You’ll never know whether it’s really impossible or not until you try. Even if it might not be an amazing result, at least you have exercised. And, for most creative people a seemingly-impossible-or-bad idea might turn into an astonishing one.
5. Get a friend. Link with a friend also working as a creative person. Share stories, tips and knowledge. And, learn from this friend.
6. Enjoy the process. Anything done with joy might bring a better result than that with depression. Especially anything related to creativity. If you tend to get drowned in the river of hopelessness, you are unlikely to be creative.

Don’t waste your being blocked and stuck. Move forward. Your willingness is the key to creativity.

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Making Creative Output A Practical Reality
By Mary McNeil

If you want to bring your creative ideas to life, you’ll know that you need more than just inspiration. It takes planning and persistent effort too. So if you're brimming with creative ideas but struggling to develop them into tangible output, here are a couple of techniques you can use to make creative output a practical reality.

1. Declutter your way to creativity
Clutter takes many different forms. The most obvious is the physical clutter in your home. Less obvious, but just as constricting, are the emotional and mental clutter you carry around in your head and in your habits. I'm a great believer that the first step you need to take towards greater creativity in your life is to create a space for it.
Sometimes you need to create space without knowing what will fill it. Just clear the clutter and trust that something creative will appear once there's space for it. In my experience it always does. Other times you need to create space with a specific purpose or creative project in mind.
The process of decluttering itself often involves tough decisions, followed by a brief period of grieving for the ex-clutter. But once you've got through that, you experience a fabulous lightness and sense of possibility. This is the space in which your creativity can come out to play.
So if you stop for a moment and think about where the clutter is in your life, what springs immediately to mind?
If you were to clear one particular area or type of clutter in your life, which one would free you up the most to get creative? What's the first step you need to take to get clearing and to create some creative space for yourself?

2. Create structure to support your creativity
There's a fairly widely held belief that truly creative people need to live unstructured, bohemian lives and that any hint of a routine will kill their creative output. Now while that may be the ideal for a rare few artists, for most people it removes the possibility of a support system.
I believe that the structures and routines you build in your life are the foundations which support your creativity. They can, of course, also stifle it. So you need to make sure that you're building the right sort of foundations. And that means designing your day-to-day routines thoughtfully.
Ultimately you want your creativity to have some output. That involves creating the space and the routines which will allow you to practise your art regularly, whatever form it takes. The grander the scale of your creative ambitions, the more space and disciplined structure you will need.
Have a think about how much time you want to spend each day (or each week) on your creative projects.
What routine or structure could you put in place to ensure that you get the time you want?
If you can't get all the time and space you want, how could you get at least a part of it? What's the first step towards it?

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Tuesday, December 04, 2007
What Prevents Most People From Achieving Success In Life?
Author: Adam Khoo


If setting clear goals is so crucial for us to achieve a successful and fulfilling future, then why do so many people fail to do it? Why are so many people allowing the river of life to pull them in all directions?

1) Limiting Beliefs

The first thing that holds most people back from setting goals are their limiting beliefs. Many people only dream about what they would love to have. When it comes to committing to a
specific target and plan, they don't even bother. Something inside them says 'there is no way'. Either it's too difficult or they simply don't have what it takes.

You now know that these are nothing but limiting beliefs. Unless we break past these generalizations about ourselves, we will never dare to design goals that drive us to the next level.

2) They Don't Know What They Want

'But... I don't know what I want!' This is probably one of the most common responses I get from people. I bet if I gave these people a magic lamp and told them that they would be granted anything they wish for, they will start making up a whole list of things real quick!

It is not that people don't know what they want. What has truly happened is that most people have stopped daring to dream. I believe that as kids, all of us had fantasies and dreams of what we wanted to have and be when we grow up. However, as we went through life, we meet with so many failures and disappointments that our rational, critical mind has forbidden us to continue day dreaming anymore.

Whenever we get excited about something, our internal voice will rush in to tell us, 'it can't be done' 'you cannot do that' ' that's impossible.' 'grow up, get real'. (It could even be an
echo of our parents' voice, if we had stern, no-nonsense parents). As a result, this would block our creative juices and deflate our passion - the very elements we need to create and
design the life we truly want.

We need to learn how to unlock our imagination and set our creative minds FREE....free of fear and inhibitions so we can dream clearly and with growing excitement of what we truly want out of life.

3) Fear of Failure

This fear of failure, of rejection and embarrassment is what probably paralyses most people from even starting out. I had a participant in one of my seminars who never dared set goals
because of her intense fear of failing if she did not achieve what she had set her heart and mind to.

In her mind, she reckoned that if she did not set expectations, then she could not fail!

My mum did something similar when she was sitting for her final O level examinations over 40 years ago. She was sure she would fail maths (which she hated), and so she decided she would rather not take the exam than have a fail mark!

Sound crazy, but many people do the same thing. They believe that it is better not to have expectations so they cannot let themselves down.

Does this mean that people who keep setting goals do not fear failure? I don't believe so. I think everyone hates and fears the feeling of failure, including myself.

What then gives them the courage to set high goals and go for it? It is how we define failure to ourselves. The only one who can tell us that we failed and make us feel bad is... ourselves.

Yet, this is how we often shoot ourselves in the foot. The moment we do not achieve what we want, even on our first attempt, we tell ourselves we have failed, and feel really bad.

This pain is what prevents us - and this goes for the majority of people - from daring to try for high stakes, to taking risks.

4) Addiction to the Soft Life

Most people are risk averse because they are addicted to a way of life: a soft life, a cushy life with habits and material comforts they are loathed to change or risk losing. Unless that
comfy life-style is imminently under threat, they won't do anything that calls for iron will and discipline.

Setting goals and really going for our goals often means changing habits, sacrificing time spent hanging out with friends. This is why people make half-hearted attempts. As soon
as their new path impinges on their old habits, they withdraw...it's too hard.

A friend who teaches a Detox & Energise self-help program says most people don't stick to it because even if they believe in its long-term health benefits, they are not willing to work at
it....and it is life-long work. They'd rather pop a pill (a drug) and dam the long-term consequences.

There are no short-cuts to success in any area - business/career, health or personal relationships. So, be prepared to make what appears to be 'sacrifices' and, if you do, the rewards are there.

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