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If You Want to Be Successful, Cultivate Your Creativity

Cultivate Creativity

Innovation has become the key to ongoing business success. Career-wise we are regularly reminded of the need to recreate ourselves several times over the span of our working lives. In our personal lives yesterday’s solutions fail to fit our complex, high- pressure, high-expectation, fast-changing world. Instead we are challenged to design our own customized answers to how we live our lives. No wonder, then, that creativity has become such a highly valued attribute.

Indeed, if we are interested in increasing our effectiveness and building our capacity for success, then developing our creative capacity is a high leverage activity. Below are six basic, yet effective, strategies that I use in my work with coaching clients to help them bring more creativity to how they live and work.

Acknowledge and recognize your own creativity. Using creativity more effectively starts with the belief that you are inherently creative. If you doubt your own creativity, then intentionally notice where you currently exhibit creativity in your life. You may be surprised to notice where and how you are creative. Even seemingly mundane activities such as cooking, gardening, or making lifestyle choices can provide you with evidence that you do have novel and interesting ideas. More important, by paying attention to your creativity you will also discover how acting upon these ideas adds value for you. Gradually you build the foundation for bringing more creativity to your work and life.
Nurture your imagination. Einstein said that ‘Imagination is more important than knowledge.’ Practice your imagination muscles by making time to fantasize, to create new possibilities. When faced with a specific challenge, devote time to brainstorming ideas. Deliberately make space for the outrageous and way-out when considering options and possible solutions. Nurturing your imagination – giving it room to play – is essential if you want to live creatively.
Cultivate curiosity, avoid judgment. A habitual negative judgment towards new ideas and suggestions is an effective way to close off new explorations. It keeps you firmly in the box of your existing expertise and prejudices. Curiosity, on the other hand, opens the door to new explorations and holds the possibility of new discoveries. Maintain an open, curious attitude towards new ideas and suggestions that come up – both your own and those of others.
Strive for independence. Just as creativity requires letting go of your own judgment, you also need to be willing to let go of others’ judgment. To the extent that you shape your actions and thoughts to meet with others’ approval, you may miss out on the opportunity to explore creative new ideas and possibilities. This is quite a price to pay. If you find that you have a pattern of holding back on creative solutions for fear of others’ disapproval, it helps to start experimenting in one or two small, safe areas.
Take creative risks. Playing it safe is tempting, because it reduces the chances for spectacular failures. If we don’t risk such failure, we also eliminate the chance for coming up with new possibilities. When we fail in the process of stretching into our creativity, we know we are learning and growing. And painful though the failure might be, know that stepping out also holds the possibility of you realizing more of your unique, valuable potential.
Make creativity a normal part of your life. In the words of John Chaffee, creativity “is not an add-on, something extra that you have to find time for in your busy life. Instead, creativity is a better, richer, more productive approach to doing what you are already doing.”

* John Chaffee. 1998. The Thinker’s Way. Boston etc.: Little, Brown and Company. p. 74

Copyright Melinda Sinclair 1999-2011 Please visit MelindaSinclair.com for blog posts, articles and other resources about executive coaching, leadership development, and the power of creativity.

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More successful? Develop an attitude of service

14. February 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: success · Tags: attitude of service, becoming successful, business strategy, business success, more successful, service, strategies for success, strategies success, strategy for success, strategy success, success strategies, success strategy, successful strategies, successful strategy

By Chuck Frey

According to the late self-help expert Earl Nightingale, our success in life is directly proportional to the number of people we serve and the quality of that service. While this life principle may seem to be so simple as to be-self-evident, it’s surprising the number of people who don’t seem to be unaware that it applies to them. But, like any natural law, it does apply, to everyone.

Let’s take a closer look at the relationship between your service and your compensation in life, and then explore some creative ways that you can enrich others — and yourself — by increasing your service to them.

Measuring your service

Earl Nightingale was a fan of visual metaphors as a tool for communicating important principles and concepts. To illustrate the relationship between service and compensation, he used the image of an apothecary scale — the type of measuring device once used in pharmacies in the early part of the 20th century. It consisted of two bowls, hung from a horizontal arm. In one bowl, the pharmacist placed the medicine to be weighed. In the other bowl, he or she placed precisely calibrated metal weights, until the two sides of the scale were in balance — in other words, until the arm was perfectly horizontal.

What does an old pharmacy scale have to do with our comparison of success and service? Imagine that one of the bowls is marked “compensation” and the other is marked “service.” According to Nightingale, we only need to focus on the quality of the service we provide and the number of the people whom we serve — the service side of the scale. The compensation will follow, in proportion to the service we offer to others. As you sow, so shall you reap.

Focus on service, not compensation

Many people, Nightingale complained, are too focused on increasing their compensation, without providing a commensurate increase in their service. Many people fall prey to an attitude of, “My employer isn’t paying me enough, so I won’t do any more for them.” Others may feel stuck on the same job, year after year, but never make a personal commitment to learn more about their job or profession, and therefore increase their ability to serve their employer, and therefore their value.

Many organizations offer credit for continuing education as part of their compensation packages, yet these benefits are often chronically underutilized by workers. In short, the vast majority of people who complain about the lack of pay, fulfillment and opportunity in their careers are victims not of their jobs, but of the attitudes they hold about their jobs. In other words, these people are focusing their attention on the wrong side of the scale.

In order to increase our compensation, you must develop creative ways to increase your service — and in so doing, set in motion a positive “boomerang effect” of increasing returns to yourself. For those who understand this principle, life is a grand adventure. These unique souls focus on the service side of the scale, and superior compensation follows in turn, in proportion to their service.

Strategies for improving your service

So how can you increase your service, and therefore your compensation? There are many creative ways to do this. One of the best strategies is to engage in continuous, ongoing learning in your field of study as well as other areas of interest to you. By developing a mindset of continuous learning, you are constantly feeding the raw material pile of your mind, which it can then draw upon when you’re brainstorming.

For example, one of my “occupational hobbies” has been business creativity and innovation. I read every book and article I can get my hands on, I subscribe to creativity newsletters and I purchase and use tools designed to help me develop more and better innovative ideas. The results in my career have been outstanding, and my expanded ability to think creatively has had a very positive influence on all areas of my life. It is also resulted in a launch of the InnovationTools Web site you are visiting right now!

People who engage in continuous learning naturally tend to outgrow their jobs over a period of time, often resulting in promotions or better job offers. Most often, people are promoted because they have outgrown their current position, not because they have repeated the same level of experience year after year.

Another way to increase your service is to cultivate what’s called an “insight outlook.” In other words, learn from your experiences and your ongoing education, but always with an eye toward how you can apply it or adapt it to your current situation. Companies are always in need of fresh ideas, insights and outlooks, and they will pay the people who provide them and who can solve problems creatively.

Align yourself with opportunity

In addition, Earl Nightingale believed (and I agree) that people who concentrate on the service side of the scale find themselves profiting from all sorts of unique opportunities that others dismiss as “luck.”

To use another metaphor, opportunities and ideas don’t come into your life dressed as shiny gems or diamonds. Rather, they tend to appear like diamonds in the rough, or as opportunities dressed in work clothes. In other words, it’s easy to look right at a situation that contains a potential opportunity, and overlook it. On the other hand, if you know what you’re looking for, you can uncover these opportunities, often right under your own nose. You must then use your creative thinking and problem solving skills to hone them and shape them into the successes they will one day become.

Conclusion

As you can see, your success in life depends, in large part, on cultivating an attitude of service, and by providing value to others. If you want to be more successful, stop focusing on how much you’re being compensated today. Instead, using the strategies you’ve read about in this article, spend some time brainstorming new ways to increase your service to your employer, your family and the other people whom you serve in your life. I think you’ll be delighted by the results. After all, as you

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Millionaire Stealth Secrets

By: Andrew Craig

The Confessions of a Millionaire!…… “Let me first of all tell you how I came across some wealth making secrets. I started in business several years ago and I soon realized that whenever I got ahead, something mysteriously came along and took it away from me. I seemed to rise a bit and then fall a bit and fall a bit more. I could never seem to get out of the rut. During this time, I kept a journal and after 3 years of results rising and falling in repeated cycles, I considered giving up entirely.

In my depressed state, I looked through my journal. It was quite illuminating to read my own personal history…but then I noticed A pattern. There were ‘things’ running alongside my rises and falls, as if these things were making the rises and falls happen. So what I did was to take all the things that were making the rises happen….and make sure I did them….and stopped doing the things that were making the falls occur.

Just 7 months later as my wealth had been increasing on a regular basis and still is, I have never experienced a fall since, thanks to the secrets created from the notes I had written on a regular basis in my journal. I validated everything both by rigorous testing and honing and by asking other entrepreneurs what they thought of them before producing a final document. The information in this document is what you need to assist you through the secrets of success and wealth creation, instead of having to spend years, figuring out the secrets yourself, which are referred to in this document, on how to go about creating your own success and wealth”.

What’s involved?

The document involves two very important elements. The first element is the knowledge of the mechanics of success. Think of this knowledge as your road map to success and wealth creation. The second element is a ritual (methods) that you will perform on a daily basis. Think of this ritual as the vehicle that will drive you to success and wealth. The knowledge and the ritual are slowly built up as you read the document section by section. Follow the instructions and, your mechanism, that governs how well you do in life will be set to whatever success you desire.

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Take that one piece of advice. It made me believe that success was possible. So I went for it… and guess what? The success was there and I found it! In the ebook you’ll read and study ‘Success Code Directives’ and how every single hugely successful entrepreneur in history has followed ALL these Code Directives. If they didn’t, they soon learnt to. See these as your shortcut to success and wealth and you’ll learn how to arrive at your desired destination guided by the more detailed information available to you in the document referred to. Find out more by acting now!

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Embrace Success Strategies For Life

Success Programs are a great success tool. I recently listened to a success program on this subject by Wayne Dyer called, There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem. It’s based on the idea that we are all part of a huge energy field, which ranges all the way from the highest of energies such are light and thought and continues all the way down to the lower energies, which includes our material world where all our problems exist.

This huge magnetic field has access to all of the knowledge there ever was in the universe. Since everything is energy, we’re also all part of this field and have access to it.

Using Success Programs or Motivational Seminars is a great way to change your vibrations to higher frequencies. Some people buy some of the audio seminars by well known gurus. These programs are recognized educational resources and are an investment in your personal life. Also many of these programs can be written off as an educational expense against your taxes. In my opinion Nightingale-Conant is the best source for these great programs.

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Determine The Impact That Is Created When A Person Embraces Success Strategies For Life

By Kristen Howe

Its rarely a positive idea for an individual to pursue a new or developing opportunity, without any form of planning before taking action. Planning before any action provides an individual a tremendous number of benefits, when looking to find success in any task they are looking to achieve, whether this is discovered in the business environment or personal environment. When you would be able to embrace a strategy to success, you would begin to lay the foundation of attaining the goals you are hoping to accomplish, in the shortest amount of time possible.

In the business environment, strategies play a really crucial role when trying to determine the best opportunities to take advantage of, so as to generate revenue and create high levels of profit. When you could develop a strategy to success you’ll be able to create a clear set of objectives which your business must follow, so as to reach the final destination of company success. There may be a wide range of hurdles you encounter as your business progresses, but your strategy will aid to create clarity, when it comes to overcoming these hurdles and continuing to achieve positive progress.

Just like the business environment benefits from the possibilities of strategizing, an individual’s personal life would have similar success, when they pursue success strategies for life. Each person has their own personal goals they will like to achieve over the course of time, whether that’s found with getting married, having children, achieving financial success, running their own business, or having a significant impact on the world. All of these objectives are really difficult to achieve and would benefit from the possibilities which exist with strategizing.

When you benefit from the opportunities of success strategies for life, you’ll begin to establish a clear objective for you to follow in order to accomplish all the opportunities you wish to take advantage of in life. Not only must an individual take advantage of the opportunities that exist with creating clear objectives, a person ought to even embrace the opportunities of establishing the right mentality when approaching these objectives. If you have a desire that you need something, you would likely not achieve this goal. If you have a desire that you want something and you have a clear objective in accomplishing this, then you would mostly achieve this goal.

The opportunities of strategizing and mentality play a considerable role in every person’s objectives, whether they are looking to improve their business and achieve financial success or achieve various goals that they have set in their personal life. Taking advantage of online resources which focus on an opportunity such as a strategy to success will prove highly beneficial for any person hoping to gain assistance, when it comes to this focus.

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Thoughts about The Strangest Secret

29. January 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: success · Tags: achieve success, earl nightingale, goals, success strategies, successful, the strangest secret, worthy goals, worthy ideals

By Earl Nightingale

When we say “nearly five percent of men and women achieve success” then we have to define success. The following is the best definition we’ve found: “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”

If a person is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where to go, then that person is successful. If a person does not know which direction they want to go in life, then that person is a failure.

“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”

Therefore, who succeeds?

The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. The person who says, “I’m going to become this”… and then begins to work toward becoming it.

Have you ever wondered why so many men and women work so hard and honestly without ever achieving anything in particular? Why others do not seem to work hard at all and yet get everything? We sometimes think it is the magic touch or pure luck. We often say, “Everything they touch turns to gold.” Have you ever noticed that a person who becomes successful tends to continue this pattern of success? Or on the other hand, how a person who fails seems to continually fail?
Well, the answer is simple — those who succeed have established personal goals.

Success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success and success is in direct proportion to our service.

Here are five steps that will help you realize success:

1.   Establish a definite goal.
2.   Stop running yourself down.
3.   Do not think of all the reasons why you cannot be successful — instead think of all the reasons why you can achieve success.
4.   Trace your emotions back to childhood — discover where you first got the negative idea you would not be successful — face your fears.
5.   Renew your self-image by writing a description of the person you want to become — Act the part — You are that person!

George Bernard Shaw said:

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”

Well, that is pretty apparent, isn’t it? And every person who discovered this believed – for a while – that he was the first one to work it out. We become what we think about.

Now, it stands to reason that a person who is thinking about a concrete and worthwhile goal is going to reach it, because that’s what he’s thinking about. And we become what we think about.

Conversely, the man who has no goal, who doesn’t know where he’s going, and whose thoughts must therefore be thoughts of confusion and anxiety and fear and worry, becomes what he thinks about. His life becomes one of frustration and fear and anxiety and worry.

And if he thinks about nothing…he becomes nothing.

So decide now. What is it you want? Plant your goal in your mind. It’s the most important decision you’ll ever make in your entire life. All you’ve got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, and work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality.

How do you begin?

First: It is understanding emotionally as well as intellectually that we literally become what we think about; that we must control our thoughts if we’re to control our lives. It’s understanding fully that – “as ye sow, so shall ye reap.”

Second: It’s cutting away all fetters from the mind and permitting it to soar as it was divinely designed to do. It’s the realization that your limitations are self-imposed and that the opportunities for you today are enormous beyond belief. It’s rising above narrow-minded pettiness and prejudice.

Third: It’s using all your courage to force yourself to think positively on your own problems, to set a definite and clearly defined goal for yourself. To let your marvelous mind think about your goal from all possible angles; to let your imagination speculate freely upon many different possible solutions. To refuse to believe that there are any circumstances sufficiently strong to defeat you in the accomplishment of your purpose. To act promptly and decisively when your course is clear. And to keep constantly aware of the fact that you are, at this moment, standing in the middle of your own “acres of diamonds.”

And fourth: Save at least 10 percent of every dollar you earn.
It’s also remembering that, no matter what your present job, it has enormous possibilities – if, you’re willing to pay the price by keeping these four points in mind:

1.   You will become what you think about.
2.   Remember the word “imagination” and let your mind begin to soar.
3.   Courageously concentrate on your goal every day.
4.   Save 10 percent of what you earn.

Finally, take action – ideas are worthless unless we act on them.
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