Creativity Boosting Tips - Understanding Creativity

Creativity is an inborn characteristic of all human beings. Being creative is our birthright and manifesting our creativity is the ultimate expression of our divine nature. Debunking Creativity Myths Before we dig into creativity, there are some myths which need to be debunked first. I have heard many people misinterpret this concept and characterize themselves as not being creative, so I feel the need to clarify things. First of all, creativity covers more than just art. Yes, it implies everything that has to do with art, such as singing, composing, painting, drawing, writing and so on, but it is by no means limited just to these activities. You are creative every time you take a shortcut with your car to avoid traffic. You are creative each time you find the right words to say to...

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Goal Setting: The Truth

One popular definition of a goal is a dream with a date on it. Search the internet for methods of goal setting and you will discover a plethora of tactics, many of which repeat the same old, "Write it down. Set a date to accomplish it" advice. Did you ever set a goal? Did you write it down? Did you achieve it? By the date you had written? If not, how did you feel? Did you ever realize a big dream that you never wrote down? Lots of times, right? The truth is, it is not the fact that you write your goal down that motivates you to achieve it. Nor is the fact that you set a date to it that drives your success. Only one element ensures success in life. When your goal has a Personal Meaning Quotient (PMQ) at 100 then you will move past any obstacle, no matter how big or threatening,...

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Top 5 Tips to Staying Positive

Positive thinking is not a common virtue among people. Optimism not only helps you be happy, it also provides you with energy to face the challenges that life throws at you everyday. If you are looking for tips to stay positive, this article will give you about 5 ways to do so. The truth is that things get better. No matter how hard a particular day has been for you, always remember that compared to the huge scope that life offers, its significance is less. Thinking about the very fact that everything will get better will help you stay positive all the time. Believe that you will feel better tomorrow or the day after and nothing can get you down. This is a wonderful tip to stay positive. Whenever you think that your mindset is getting a bit negative, think about the worst things that...

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Leaders Must Adapt And Change

Times change, situations, circumstances and conditions change, and so must those in positions of leadership. Just because something has always been done in a particular manner does not automatically mean that it must always be done that way, but, on the other hand, it also does not mean that everything must always be changes. Our greatest leaders are those that can balance those rituals and methods that should be kept the same, which ones should be modified, and even perhaps which ones should be abandoned. It begins with a thorough needs analysis, and progresses to making the necessary, yet often difficult policy decisions. Les Paul put it this way, "You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change." Simply stated, effective individuals...

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Failure: The Price for Success

Failure is the currency in which all successes are paid: the inevitable price in any successful attainment. Successful people are the ones that I have failed more than the average person. If you have never failed at anything it just means that you haven't tried to succeed at anything either. To be successful, you have to be willing to go through the embarrassment and humiliation that sometimes come with failure. The fear of failure can be so overwhelming in people that become afraid of trying. So they play the life game not to lose meanwhile the great ones are in the game playing to lose. That is exactly the reason why the average person is no match to the winners. You have to get in the mindset that you cannot fail. If you tried and failed at something, know that in the process you...

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When Bad Things Happen

"There is no education like adversity." - Benjamin Disraeli When "bad things" happen how do you react? First of all I guess we would have to determine what your definition of "bad things" would be. Typically a bad thing is anything that upsets you or rocks your world in some negative way. The more formal word would be "adversity" which is defined as any difficulty or misfortune. And bad things come in all shapes and sizes. Anywhere from spilt milk, losing something you value, traffic jams, someone criticizing you or being rude to you; all the way to the big "bad things" such as losing your job, your home or someone you love. Now the thing is that these so called "bad things happen to all of us at one time or another, there is simply no way around it. So, does knowing this make it easier...

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Being Motivated Everyday

Regardless of what you do for a living staying motivated will always make the journey toward success more fun. It is almost impossible to achieve any worthwhile goal without staying motivated. Although, you may have precisely written goals and your plan of action is perfectly etched in stone, motivation will give you the energy to keep moving toward the finish line when you hit the rough spots on your success journey. In addition to staying energized, motivation increases your ability to stay focus and creative. Staying motivated is an essential element in goal achievement, but it is not always easy to keep the fires of excitement ignited, especially when things do not go as planned. The tips listed below will help you stay the course: 1. Always Use Positive Language - When a problem...

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Don't Let Anyone Steal Your Dream

Some of us often dream of new business ideas every day. As you brainstorm and visualize success, something goes wrong along the way. What was an exciting idea has somehow dwindled down to a mere fizzle. Could it be that you let someone steal your dream? If we can understand what happens, then we can keep the momentum going. We know that dream killers are people who constantly shoot down your aspirations with negative criticisms. However, there exists an even more lethal dream killer we tend to overlook... ourselves. The truth of the matter is that the phrase "don't let anyone steal your dream" could be a code for not facing the realities of what's happening in your business. Here are some indications to ascertain whether you are becoming your own dream killer and what you need to do...

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How to Develop a Creative Mind

The power to develop a creative mind is sometimes underestimated. This statement may seem controversial but it is not. It is rather a fact. The mind is always active regardless of what we are doing. This fact also cannot be disputed in any meaningful way. Every person should be a witness to this constant activity of the mind. If you look at the past five minutes or so, you will notice that many thoughts have crossed your mind. If you look back three days, then it will be almost impossible to remember all the things that have crossed your mind. All the thoughts that may have come to you within the past three days must be too numerous to remember. This is a hint that every person has the power to develop a creative mind. Ideas flash constantly upon every mind. Your mind, a storehouse of...

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How to Rekindle Your Lost Motivation

Finding or replenishing your lost motivation can be a difficult task for anybody and especially internet marketers during the holiday seasons! With holiday 'spirit' in the air comes many distractions that make it hard to stay motivated which can be the kiss of death for the business of many internet marketers! Here are 5 ways setting brand new goals, at least for the short term, will greatly benefit online entrepreneurs trying to simply get back on track! Narrows Your Focus Determine just one goal you'd like to achieve and simply focus on that! This helps to relieve the 'congestion' in your mind of having too many things to do which is something that commonly affects internet marketers! Now your mind will be free to concentrate on this one objective! Share Your Goal Nothing works...

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Focused Leaders Reach More Goals

While it is quite natural and normal for each of us to, from time to time, lose our focus in our everyday activities, true leaders do not have that liberty. Great leadership is invariably about maintaining one's focus, and keeping one's eyes on the target. This begins with a vision and a commitment to goals, which then causes a leader to create an agenda and an action plan. He must, regardless of outside forces and obstacles, continue in a forward motion, by being as prepared as possible, and more committed than ordinary individuals. Henry Ford put focus into perspective when he stated, "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goals." It is often not the obstacle that provides a difficulty, but rather a leader's approach, attitude, and actual degree...

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Are Your Goals S.M.A.R.T. Goals?

As the year comes to an end, most businesses began to evaluate where their business has been over the past 12 months and where it is going. These are the reasons why I enjoy this time of the year. It is the time where you get to re-vamp everything in life, career, business; it doesn't matter. You get to determine what worked and what didn't. You get to launch something exciting and new that took you all year to prepare. Just don't forget to plan or you will be saying the same thing next year, If I only I would have done this or I wish I had enough time to do that. Well don't worry. I am going to share five S.M.A.R.T. goal tips that will help keep you on track. If you make sure your goals fall into these five categories, you will be on your way to a thriving life and/or business in the...

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Why Some Are More Successful Working Online

Why is it that some people are more successful developing a profitable business on the internet than others? Many feel they possess the characteristics of an entrepreneur and thus take to the web in search of fame and fortune yet they tend to fall short of success in their attempts to do so! Let's take a closer look at why some people are able to develop a profitable business online while others are left scratching their heads! Willing to Take Chances Dreaming about building a profitable business is easy but with so many unknown variables involved this leaves many at the starting gate! People often view the unknown, understandably so, as an needless risk to be avoided! Whether it's fearing failure, looking silly to their peers or perhaps leaving their comfort zone, it is common for...

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How to Develop Your Self Esteem

Our self esteem is lost in the process where we don't follow our natural instinct and instead think and do what is wanted or expected of us. The times that we "follow our heart," without a finely tuned internal GPS system, we are simply relying on defense mechanisms to protect us. Intuition is important. It tells us what is for us, and its results intricately tie into self esteem. The down side of using our intuition is that we are bound to change or lose existing relationships and ways of living. So we make the decision that is pleasing to others' ears or won't rock the boat, and ignore the alarm bells. Wrong turn! Wrong turn! Yet we gladly move the steering wheel into a road we signed up for and now have to take. When we give the power of decision over to third...

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How to Succeed BIG

Getting what YOU Want! Are you getting what you want in life? Can you say that you are doing what you want when you want? If not then there is a simple approach to reaching this goal. My life has changed dramatically due to fitness. Can I honestly say that I'm doing exactly what I want when I want today? The answer to that is not exactly but everyday I'm getting closer and closer. How am I doing that? It all starts with setting goals for yourself. If you don't have a plan or road map on how you will get there, you'll never reach it. You'll just be wandering around aimlessly with no direction resulting in failure. Just like in fitness. So many men and women are just winging their diet and training thinking that they are improving when in reality they may just be maintaining and...

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The Secret to a Happy Life

Do you want to gain confidence, reduce pain and stress, and achieve your goals? Do you want to live a happy life? All of this is possible for you and the best part of it all is that it is free! All you have to understand is "the law of attraction." The law of attraction is simply the idea that each individual attracts positive or negative vibes to themselves. Your subconscious mind can be a key component in achieving your goals throughout your life time. When an individual is having a bad day, they usually are first to say that the rest of their day is going to only get worse, something else will go wrong, or that it is going to be a long and rough day. Do you think that this person ever stopped to think about turning their day around? They may have thought about it. But did they change...

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Leaders Must Own Their Vision

Many of us in the leadership training and consulting business feel that there can be no true leadership unless a leader possesses a vital vision that they hold near and dear, motivating them to pursue their objectives. When a leader possesses a vision, they then can make realistic and relevant goals, and create an agenda and a timeline to achieve what they feel is important. When someone in leadership lacks an essential personal vision, it is nearly impossible for them to either have the same level of personal commitment, or be able to as effectively motivate others to listen and follow. Jack Welch stated, "Good leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion." In other words, it is not enough for someone to simply have...

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The Mind Of Success

Nobody is who they are or where they are by some misguided unfortunate act of misfortune. We are who we are today or where we are in order to learn from our circumstances so we may grow; if we feel our lot is a burden unjustly imposed and fail to learn from it, we shall remain where and who we are. Every person has a seed of ingenuity in them; that we have not yet unveiled deeds of potential benefit to mankind means we are a work in progress. We can achieve anything if we make up our minds completely and definitely to pursue our hearts desires and apply that creative talent given to us at birth to its fullest potential. The mind is the pathway to universal abundance; if we have not yet acquired wealth, it means that somewhere along the line our minds have been disconnected from the...

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Do You Deserve to Be Successful?

I received some really inspiring feedback from a 72 year old gentleman yesterday in which he affirms that, had he just committed to carry out small daily disciplines throughout his life, he would have managed to achieve so much more. He also affirmed that had he focused his energy daily and not spent his life spinning his wheels, "NO-Thing" was beyond his reach. Well the great news for Samuel and everyone else, who reads my daily articles, is that, wherever you are right now and whatever stage you are in your life that is the perfect place to start. Commit to daily discipline; carry out the right tasks daily and a world of possibility opens up to you. Becoming a WinnerI believe that the most crucial attribute of anyone who wants to live a life of meaning and fulfillment  is...

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