Carolyn Smagalski

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I like the way Wernher von Braun viewed his life work.  He would quip, "Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."  

To that, I say, "Ditto."

How many times have you felt that you were in a fog, just muddling around, not quite sure where you were going with all your effort?  Creativity is often like that.  Marcel Proust said, "The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."  

Being creative, like other traits of personal character, can be cultivated by habitual use.  The more ideas you have, the greater your chance of opening yourself to the field of all possibilities.

One of the seminars I present centers around “communication” - communication with your inner self, and communication with others in our daily lives.  It is important to realize that your realm of reality is limited by your belief system.  In the whole scheme of things, you only know a fraction about the universe.  You also know there are things you don't know about - perhaps things like performing brain surgery. 

There is an infinite universe that you don't even know exists - this is "what you don't know you don't know."  As you educate yourself about the world, business, finance, culture, medicine, health, affluence or courage, you open up your belief system.  This opens up the field of all possibilities, enabling you to make choices that had been inaccessible to you in the past.

You realize that life is a circle.  As you reach toward a goal, the course of events may not always go the way you expected.  In a case such as this, you would have learned that your action became linked with a result that was unfavorable - thus you have added to your bank of life experience, making you the richer for having tried.  James D. Finley wrote, "Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face."   It's just a step in the process.

Keep a journal.  Write your ideas.  Write your goals.  Write your perceptions.  Write your results.  Add the date.  You will be amazed at your growth, as time progresses and you expose yourself to scores of life experiences.  Lord Byron wrote, "But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling, like dew, upon a thought produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions think." 

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