Marcel Legros - Play the Game of Life

Make everyday your birthday party by unwrapping your own gifts. Most people have gifts they haven’t even discovered yet. You have talent, skills, intelligence and especially interests that you aren’t aware of. Start assuming you have abilities that you haven’t discovered, or given yourself credit for and start looking for them. Day after day, more research comes in proving that most people have much more intelligence than they use. Also, the new field of Emotional Intelligence, has shown the people have strengths in far more areas than just math or English. You have a much higher level of abilities than you imagined or give yourself credit for. Work from the assumption that you are smarter and better at things and stretch yourself into new areas and see what happens. Each time you will discover something, and I guarantee you will, you can say “happy birthday” to yourself and consider yourself lucky to have received a gift that will last the rest of your life.

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Here’s a daily reminder that all ideas want to be free. Today, we don’t just want want tools to co-create their own solutions, we expect them. In the years ahead, companies that block or stifle outside innovation will be made irrelevant.
Apple released the ridiculously popular iPhone a few weeks ago, but offer AT&T as your […]

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How do you know if you are creatively blocked? Jealousy is an excellent clue. Are there artists whom you resent? Do you tell yourself, I could do that, of only… Do you tell yourself that if only you took your creative potential seriously, you might:

* Stop telling yourself, It’s too late.
* Stop waiting until you make enough money to do something you’d really love.
* Stop telling yourself, It’s just my ego, whenever you yearn for a more creative life.
* Stop telling yourself that dreams don’t matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.
* Stop fearing that your family or friends would think you crazy.
* Stop telling yourself that creativity is a luxury and that you should be grateful for what you’ve got.

As you learn to recognize, nurture, and protect your inner artist, you will be able to move beyond pain and creative constriction. You will learn ways to recognize and resolve fear, remove emotional scar tissue, and strengthen your confidence. Damaging old ideas about creativity will be explored and discarded.

Source: The Artist’s Way - Julia Cameron - Page 7

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Unplug and Tune In

‘Unplug’ yourself before a creative speed bump turns into a creative wall. Technology is great but it enforces a heavy price, if you aren’t paying attention. When you get too plugged into a project and into technology, you run the risk of disconnecting from life’s flow. Getting too close to your work often means you lose objectivity - lose sight of the bigger picture.

Remember Three Things About Creativity:

1. You don’t own it. Creativity spontaneously rises from life itself. You are alive and you are creative.
2. Creativity includes - it doesn’t exclude or discern. Discernment, logic, and discrimination narrows your view. Creativity has a broad view with unlimited possibilities. Frequently step back and entertain different ways to do your work.
3. Mistakes are a good idea. Some of man’s greatest inventions were the result of a happy mistake. You have to try many things that don’t work in order to find the one or two things that do.
4. You can be creative doing ANYTHING at all.

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We’re Crazy and We Have a Gift
Every human being on this planet is creative. The very life within your body, is creativity itself. Yet most people struggle with the idea that they can be creative - society has created a myth and most people believe it to be fact. The myth of creativity consists of […]

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