Whether you feel it important or necessary to change your view on the nature of the source of creativity, the important lesson I believe is that you never stop allowing yourself to be a source of creative inspiration. Whether to your family, to your friends, to co-workers or clients, in private or in public, keep the "channels open" and the "creative juices flowing."
Category: Ideas Worth Spreading
Common Sense: Voltaire said it best.
If you inadvertantly brushed up against a thorny bush while walking on a path in the woods - whether you put the bush there or not - you would probably move swiftly to extract yourself from the bush and move on. You think that people would do the same with the emotional and mental thorns encountered in the path of life, but do they? In my observation the greater tendency is to wrestle with the bush, roll around in it, jump in it, jump on it, walk away and leap back onto it just when it looked like they were clear of it...anything but get away from it! It just doesn't make any sense.
Leadership Lessons: Sir Ernest Shackleton and The Endurance
One value of recounting the great achievements wrought by our fellows throughout history is that their stories help to put our current worries, fears or concerns into perspective. Did you really let traffic "ruin your day," the wrong item in your take-out order "piss you off" or an unfriendly glare or comment "cause you to blow up?" Try dealing with being stranded in the middle of nowhere for two years, incommunicado and with 27 people you've only just met.
The Dignified Life – The Choice is Yours by Gregg Hake
Every thought, word or deed you express either carries in it the compelling tone of dignity or the disquieting sound of lowliness. The choice is yours. Remember. The choice is always yours.
Victor Wooten, Amazing Grace: The Flow Experience Revisited
Every once in a while you hear or see something worth sharing. I heard this solo by bassist Victor Wooten years ago...it's definitely one of my top ten favorite musical performances of all time. Victor exemplifies the unmistakeable "flow" experience described so meticulously by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his book, "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience."
Trust your Instruments
Flight training should be required for all teenagers. Replete with valuable lessons that can be applied to any situation, learning to fly is one of those all-consuming activities that allows even the busiest person a moment of respite, a peace that comes only from complete concentration. My aviation career began at the age of fifteen. My flight instructor, Mack, was an …
The Pony in the Dung Heap, Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Roosevelt and You
If you were able to take snapshot of every aspect of your life - your work, personal situation, home, family, friends, finances and your sense of self - and look at them like flashcards, what words would you use to describe them? Some aspects of your life may appear more promising than others, but no matter what the factors are, you can always stand to improve your outlook and consequently your approach to handling your life. Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt once said: "In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
Boston Legal, The Environment and my Trashy Habit
If you care about something, you take care of it. You go out of your way to see that it receives the necessary attention to not only survive, but prosper...If you care about the future, please return everything in better condition than you found it.
Joan of Arc on Living by Gregg Hake
Whatever your core beliefs, your life will tend to take shape according to their outline. The envelope of possiblity for your life is established by your convictions. You can't think you're way into a great life, but your fundamental beliefs do provide the platform upon which your character is built of from which your life expression proceeds. Never underestimate the value of a solid foundation.
Words to live by from Abraham Lincoln and Gregg Hake
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”
Gregory Hake 