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The Visceral Life For Me
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As a teenager I lost my family in a plane crash. I could not get to my vulnerabilities for maybe fifteen years. Getting married and having kids opened me to feeling more exposed everyday.
How can you have kids and not be at the edge of your emotions with love and worry every moment? For eighteen years until they went to college, it was my goal to know where they were, keep them safe, and at least get them to college before they were on their own.
Now I have the same love and concern, but I don’t worry about them running in the street. I like the feeling of being emotionally involved.
I, like others, love being a sports spectator because the competition resonates at a visceral level. It’s like watching gladiators where the best competitor wins. People love their teams at a visceral level. Why else would you wear a cheese hat?
Surfing is visceral. There is the anticipation of an exciting ride and the fear of getting crushed. I love the TV show Bones because it is just as much about the pain and sexual tension in relationships between people as it is about solving a mystery. This is my perfect combination.
I am thoroughly enjoying a few Harlan Coban novels because it is about murder and mystery but more about how everyone is personally stressed with decisions they have to make in their work and their complicated personal lives. I groan as I experience with them the difficulty of their dilemma and am not always sure which decision I would make.
I am inspired. Inspiration occurs at an emotional level. It is not an intellectual process. I love to write to express myself. I am blessed that I can do it full time.
I have connected on a deeper level with how everything on earth is similar on a cellular level (carbon) and yet humans are different through genes and environment that create their personalities and behavior.
We all have our personalities, but we can connect to each other through mirror neurons in our brains. They allow us to finish each others sentences and understand each others feelings.
Inspiration and visceral are the opposite of boring; they allow living in the here and now. Our top down thinking that forms our personalities wants to filter out information and reinforce our world view. This leads to very little here and now and lots of boredom; no fresh thoughts or creative energy; no excitement from a new stimulus; no stepping outside our fears to risk something that could change us.
Courage, discipline, and openness for risk create constant change and life at the visceral level.
Being Alone and Being with Yourself
Posted by: | CommentsIn a book I am reading about a beautiful Doctor who is a coroner, she quotes Eric Clapton about his desire to spend time with himself.
He says he is not enthusiastic about people.
The Doctor says she doesn’t care for men enough to have a life long mate and prefers freedom to engage in her own entertainment.
As I have studied the nine personality types there is one type that is called the Investigator. This person enjoys getting into the details and explanation of things and personally and emotionally separates from life.
The other aspect of this personality is that they need real isolation from others to refresh and rejuvenate.
I am a lot like this. I love people and love to socialize. I love my kids and friends. I daily talk to strangers. But groups of people can wear me out. I had several office manager positions when I was in real estate. I typically had 70 to 100 sales people. I was great with them, but I loved to get away, better.
I was also a regional manager for 11 offices and during the Xmas season I would go to at least 25 parties. After 5 years in each of these management positions, I had to get away.
Now, I love my writing, my exercise, talking to strangers, keeping up with my friends and family and being by myself. Some people would use the term loner. I usually find that I am more entertained by my own pursuits than being inundated with the talk of others.
When I was a child, my mother said she could put me in my room for hours for punishment and would come in and find me entertaining myself. I have evidently always enjoyed my own company.
There are a wide variety of personality types; 9 by the count of neurologists and spiritualists. We have to be careful when we are judgmental of other people’s behavior unless it is negatively hostile or sociopathic.
It is great to understand your personality because it filters stimulus to reinforce your world view. It can keep you separated from reality. Our personalities are pretty well set by the age of 14.
They are a result mostly of our genes and our early years of emulating our parents and absorbing lessons from our environment.
The way to get beneath personality to our true selves is through meditation and/or connection to the deep area where we are all connected, alike, and equal.
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Smooth Ocean Stones and Life
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I love picking up the rounded stones at low tide in the evenings.
They are smoothed like jeweled gems;
all the years of being pounded by waves and rolled on the ocean bottom. They go from sharp edged stones to wise old smoothies.
And life has a way of shaping young reckless idealistic impetuous enthusiasm into slower methodical cautious, maybe even defensive thinking.
Look how rare for a U.S. President to be elected in his 40’s. Why? It doesn’t take that long to work up the ranks. Are we afraid because they have a finger on the nuclear arsenal?
Do we want someone who has been scarred enough times to learn the high cost of mistakes? Do we trust that grandfatherly wisdom that may lack youthful enthusiasm, but can has been there done that?
Do we trust someone who doesn’t have to try something to prove them selves.
Success in Life and Leadership has to be a balance of impetuous enthusiasm and rational evaluation; the gas and the brake or the gas full on with a feathered brake pedal?
How do you balance knowledge, wisdom and unbridled enthusiasm?
Let’s throw in emotional balance. We often make decisions from a personality that we don’t really control. It takes a long time to understand our strengths and weaknesses, our preferences and biases
It takes a long time to develop into a person who makes wise decisions.
It takes a long time to make a smoothed rounded ocean stone.
How Much Suffering for Joy?
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I think about what makes us cry the most in the movies?
We hate to see the hero die, but we rarely cry about it.
What makes us cry, I think, is when someone overcomes the most impossible obstacles.
It’s when people show bravery in the face of certain doom.
It’s when people sacrifice themselves so someone else can have something important, maybe their lives.
It’s when innocent people get hurt like a child suffers or has loss.
Joy is empathy which is beyond thought. It exists at our visceral level where true living exists.
Joy is realization. It can occur without suffering. It can occur when we feel connected deep down to who we really are and what we can accomplish and why we are here. It is knowing we are connected to life on earth and have everyday to enjoy and express it with others.
Joy, like happiness, are outside of thought and sourced in the right brain sphere of emotion. Joy is also outside the mind/brain and sourced by connection.
We Really Want to Live at the Visceral Level
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“Visceral: Referring to the viscera, the internal organs of the body, specifically those within the chest (as the heart or lungs) or abdomen (as the liver, pancreas or intestines).” Wikipedia
| “Visceral feelings are feelings that you feel very deeply and find it difficult to control or ignore, and that are not the result of thought. (LITERARY)”We want to feel love, joy, fear, anger, and be excited by the opportunity to test ourselves. But we often cut ourselves off from feelings that are available to us very naturally.
We get bored and seek thrills because in our daily lives we stop living in the hear and now. Outside stimulus or information enters the mind and our reptilian, limbic and neo cortex get together and decide that they “have seen that, been there” and cast it into a pile we also call “Personality”. Our personality spends a lot of time filtering and protecting and creating defense mechanisms so that we are not over whelmed with too many truths. There are by many studies 9 personality types. None are bad but they are all different in how they interpret and defend our world view. Our view starts at infancy. Behavior is a combination of genes and absorption of environment in our early years. By the age of 14, we have a personality that is acting out our world view. We only open up on certain occasions to get new stimulus. We get so trapped that we have to seek triggers to create feelings. We love movies, sports, news, and gossip that will make us feel. We often resort to habitual behaviors that will give us the feelings we think we need even if they are negative. |
If we want to get beneath our personalities into who we really are, we have to have the willingness to explore and connect with our deeper selves. We have to start eliminating all the distracting noise we use to fight boredom.
We have to start giving our mind/brain time to unwind and be bored to the tune of refreshing like we would do to rest our bodies after exercise.
The real feelings we seek are waiting for us in our own conscious levels in the same space as joy, happiness, inspiration, and love.
We have to start connecting to nature, creative activities, sitting peacefully in isolation, meditating, and outdoor exercise like running, biking, or hiking without headsets.
Beneath personality and defense mechanisms are universal truths with which we can connect.
With the right practices, it doesn’t take long to get to our deeper levels of consciousness; to our visceral level.
Are We Neglecting Ourselves When We Connect?
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Why do we spend so much time trying to connect?
Because we are social animals. Neurologists say that man’s brain probably advanced in the last 100,000 years because of his sociability.
His desire to connect and communicate in building a social order helped advance the mechanisms in his brain that separated him from the animal world.
Man has the capability to go beyond basic instincts into the world of feeling, empathy, rational, and creative thought. The mind/brain symphony can both regulate our life functions and connect with feelings of the super natural.
We can perform work to stay alive, create artistic expression, and feel love for ourselves, our fellow man, and our opportunity to be here.
We have the capability for unlimited gratitude. The more gratitude we have, the more connected we are to the entire system of which we are apart.
Why in all of our effort to connect with others don’t we spend more time connecting with ourselves?
We as individuals are actually more fascinating than anything in the material world because we are a mechanism of the entire system of life.
We hold more answers within our own persons than we will ever find searching the outer world. Our inner person is the source of happiness. It doesn’t require us purchase a single item or achieve a single goal. Within our deeper recesses, we are all accepting and above judgment.
Our inner self is not impressed with fame, fortune, shoes, cars, hair, muscles, clothes, or houses. Our inner self can give us the balance to make real connections with the people with whom we are connecting.
Our Loss of Personal Responsibility is Our Weakness
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Would you say that 90% of the chatter in the air is complaints that we are not being taken care of?
The government, the regulators, the health care industry, the President, the political parties, the Chinese, OPEC and so forth have let us down or are taking what should be ours.
Why would we spend a trillion dollars on healthcare when we could take care of ourselves with a minimum of effort?
Dr. Maring, 64, a gynecologist and obstetrician with three decades as a surgeon, says”… that in the health professions, the kitchen must become as crucial as the clinic. Food is at the center of health and illness.”
Do we really have to tell people that diet and exercise keeps the doctor away? Do you know how many people never need a doctor? Lots of people.
“Financiers send the world into recession and don’t seem to suffer. Neighbors take on huge mortgages and then just walk away when they go underwater. Washington politicians avoid living within their means. Federal agencies fail and get rewarded with more responsibilities.
What the country is really looking for is a restoration of responsibility. If some smart leader is going to help us get out of ideological gridlock, that leader will reframe politics around this end.” David Brooks NYTimes
The public in a sense has put everyone over a barrel because they make irresponsible decisions and want to hold everyone accountable. The melt down crisis is partly to blame on people who borrowed too much because it was available.
There are so many regulations protecting people from teachers, doctors, financial regulations, businesses, transportation companies and so forth that innovation is stifled from too much regulation.
It is all because people won’t be responsible for them selves and fear everyone is out to get them.
If we really want freedom, we have to take on more responsibility.
It has to start with each one of us willing to be accountable for what we do.
Individuals have lost control of their lives because individuals are afraid to be responsible for their decisions.
We have to make smart decisions that may require deliberation, comparison, and consultation. Errors and omission insurance costs us a fortune every year because everyone has to have it to do business.
It also keeps people from going into business. If you open a knitting shop and don’t have insurance, you could lose everything you own. Think about it.
If You Are Not Reinventing, You May Be Behind Already
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Three messages we hear today:
- We have recovered from the Recession
- We may not feel it for a long time
- Time to Reinvent the American Dream
We are in a crisis of confidence. One reason is that the information we receive does not make sense. Politicians who promise to lead us to new frontiers do not know what they are talking about.
I like Donald Trumps message on CNN where he says if we don’t change our relationship with China and OPEC and stop the wars and bring back manufacturing, we are in big trouble.
Creative Destruction is the destruction of the current condition while a new order replaces it.
“Creative destruction can cause temporary economic distress. Layoffs of workers with obsolete working skills can be one price of new innovations valued by consumers… creative destruction can cause severe hardship in the short term, and in the long term for those who cannot acquire the skills and work experience. “ Wikipedia
Global crisis forced by financial melt downs take longer to heal. Unlike in past financial crisis’ the world is smaller. Newer solutions may not be created locally. In this age solutions might come from the lowest cost producers; China, India, South East Asia, Africa.
The United States has given away its manufacturing during a time when it was producing too many currently useless products.
Low cost labor countries are booming. The U.S. is stifled. It calls for a new worker. At a recent time when Japan led the world in manufacturing, it wanted to find a country to relocate its production so that it could use its resources to provide higher order goods.
It is that time for the U.S. We can forget hoping for everything we are complaining about. There is no white knight.
Colleges are not producing graduates that are job ready. People who have skills developed too long ago often can’t get rehired.
Some industries will be the leaders of the new age. IBM is going into third world countries and trying to assist in “…linchpin industries including telecommunications, banking, transportation, health care and energy”
Technological capability is increasing geometrically. Countries with affordable technology training like India have 500 million people under the age of 25 getting trained to work in this era.
The employable talents in the new economy may be tending toward minimum wage as machinery and software replace humans.
But there is always a need for problem solvers and innovators. There is a need for entrepreneurs whether working for themselves or employers to seek solutions needed by an economy under stress.
Leading companies are becoming creative in reducing staff, increasing production, speeding delivery, and improving customer satisfaction.
Seth Godin in his blog The Forever Recession says what we have lost is the “…millions of brain-dead, corner office, follow-the-manual middle class jobs.”
Economies under crisis move fast. Stress creates time pressure. Everything has to be better and faster. Technology is the answer to real speed. Technology, consulting, innovation, and problem solving is where new opportunities are booming.
Left brained and right brained people have limitless possibilities.
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Go Outside the Mind for Real Performance
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Of the mind, body, and spirit, the mind is the weakest link.
I recently hurt my buttocks falling off my surf board in shallow water. After a couple days I wanted to resume my physical regime. As I ran on the beach with a little pain, my mind said I was tired and should stop.
I wanted to run and so I heard what my mind was saying and checked in with my body. My body was fine, so I kept running. My mind immediately stopped its chatter.
We do have a mind that witnesses our mind. In mindfulness it is called being aware of being aware. It’s the seventh sense.
Yesterday I woke at my usual 5 a.m. to begin my first writing session. It was a rarity, but my mind said why don’t I forget it for the day. I checked in with my will and started a rational conversation of whether I needed to write
The argument for was that I have been writing everyday for months and my traffic keeps climbing 20% to 25% a month. Why stop now. The argument against was that it wasn’t necessary to do it everyday.
I checked with my will and listened to my mind and got up to write. In a few minutes with coffee in hand, I was busy and happy at work.
The mind is the devil’s playground. The mind swirls in and out of the brain observing and ordering the brain to perform desired functions. The reptilian brain takes care of the automatic functions like heartbeat and breathing.
The mind orders simple tasks like let’s brush our teeth. Unless there is a decisive decision, the brain won’t go to work. If I asked should I brush my teeth, the brain would wait an instruction.
The will can override the mind and order an instruction to the brain. If the mind said brushing teeth wasn’t important and the will or spirit says we need to brush our teeth, the mind powered by the will would activate the brain.
This happens with quitting. The mind says, let’s not do this anymore. The other day I was pushing my body way past normal and the mind brought up a safety concern. I considered what the mind had to say and evaluated what was going on in my body and decided to keep pushing.
We can get scared in attempting social or work related tasks as well. It is important to listen to what the mind has to say but consider the mind is the weak link in taking risks for success.
Courage is the will to take risks for greater rewards desired by the will. Mindfulness training is where meditations of various sorts are incorporated in creating a more powerful mind/brain synchronicity.
The frontal lobes of the pre frontal neo cortex can unite the rational, emotional, and creative centers of the brain to create more focus and reduce fear induced decisions.
Paying attention to the here and now and avoiding continuous distractions and brain draining activities is a start on the right path.
It is in everyone’s power to achieve their goals.
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The Creative Mentality is the New Mentality
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Seth Godin, considered one of the world’s most popular bloggers, author of 14 books and a Stanford Masters in business graduate has keen insights into the business world. He founded Permission based marketing.
I think his column today has new truths to be taken to heart:
“Thus, middle class jobs that existed because companies had no choice are now gone.
Protectionism isn’t going to fix this problem. Neither is stimulus of old factories or yelling in frustration and anger. No, the only useful response is to view this as an opportunity. To poorly paraphrase Clay Shirky, every revolution destroys the last thing before it turns a profit on a new thing.
The networked revolution is creating huge profits, significant opportunities and a lot of change. What it’s not doing is providing millions of brain-dead, corner office, follow-the-manual middle class jobs. And it’s not going to.”
In essence, looking to the gridlocked government to fix us is useless as if we already didn’t know. Depending on new parties or Tea Parties to fix us is no solution. Turning over the government every two years is not going to fix us.
It’s every man for him self. Luckily we have a great mind and brain that can handle the task. We have to first see reality for what it is and not expect the economy or jobs to be fixed in the near future.
Then we have to see what are the main struggles. It is pretty easy to see that business is caught up in cutting costs (employees) and trying to raise revenues. Fed Ex just showed a 110% increase in quarterly profits and cut 1,700 people. They are the new economy.
How can businesses increase revenues and cut costs? The creative mentalities now are figuring how to do more with fewer people.
The new employee or recycled employee has to bring something to the table. Michael Bungay Stanier of Box of Crayons wrote the book “How to Do Great Work” and leave good work behind. He coaches managers on how to get better work out of employees.
The answer for everyone is to get employees that perform great work. The answer is to get new entrepreneurs that can solve the over riding problems faced by business to stay alive.
The market place needs new and innovative ideas. It needs people who can access their creative minds to solve a gridlock of in the rut issues. In the rut issues, says Michael Stanier are produced by people working at their max doing what is required just to ship. They get stuck.
Innovation can apply to Processes, Services, and Products. It breaks managers free of gridlock and into new free space. When faced with the stress of struggling, the most guarded asset is time.
Because business is creating more responsibility for fewer people, time is as important as money. Time is what is being substituted for people; other people spending the time to take over the dismissed worker’s job.
Or machines or software are doing it.
We need people who cannot be replaced by others, machines or software. We need creative problem solvers and innovative thinkers.
Developing inspiration is one key to finding creative solutions. Everyone has their own inspiration center in the recesses of their mind/brain synchronicity.
If we are going to train and retrain, we need fewer people to build widgets and more people who can look at what is happening and find new ways. The valuable and surviving worker will bring more to the table than they are being paid. They will have higher job satisfaction. They will be doing work that matters.
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Mindfulness Leads to Focused Living
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This is not an easy topic for me because I am not an authority, psychiatrist or neurologist. I have read books and follow the line of thinking on how to simply concentrate your energies to be more creative.
Two great books are “Heal Your Mind and Rewire Your Brain” by Patt Lind-Kyle and “The Mindful Brain” by Daniel J. Siegel. He is a Harvard Medical graduate, doctor, psychiatrist, and teacher.
In my simple life style of writing and recreation I have eliminated a lot of the monkey brain chatter that affected me and afflicts most people with over crowded agendas.
Mindfulness described differently by the above authors is opening up the mind/brain synchronicity to fuller experiences of the here and now by calming the chatter.
The advantage of focused calmness is that it allows more creative thoughts to enter the mind and funnels the mind/brain energy to pursue those thoughts.
I find my mind only has so much energy for concentration at a time, so when I have spent it on a writing session, I have to do something to recharge which might be exercise, recreation, or simply settling into experiencing my environment.
Mindfulness is the development of focus on one thing at a time. It is meditation or the exclusion of distracting thoughts, however you want to see it.
People with ADD and other afflictions have mind/brain systems that cannot concentrate on a thought to the exclusion of distractions.
Scientific studies show that developing mindfulness over a long period of time results in the frontal lobes coordinating all the activity of the four brains and creating greater health, immunity, self satisfaction, emotional stability, happiness, and mental acuity.
This develops the ability to release emotional traps that always trigger the same reactions and keep us prisoner to habitual behaviors.
Currently most people react to the input of their reptilian, emotional, and rational brain centers fighting to make decisions based on past experiences. This from infancy has created our distinctive personalities. This continuous filtering and reinforcing of who we think we are places limitations on how people can experience new stimulus and, of course, on growth.
It also distorts reality. When we only want to read for one message, we can’t experience full mental, emotional, and relationship growth.
Easy mindful exercises consist of concentrating on words, or sensual experiences until the mind wanders and then bringing the mind back to the original focus.
Most of us are doing one thing and thinking about something else. If we were to either walk and only think about the walking or sit outside and only think about the feelings we were experiencing, or concentrate on our breathing or think about a word we could start developing the discipline.
This exercise focuses and calms the mind. Instead of putting music into our ears every spare moment, why not think about what we are doing and what we are thinking about. Observing what we are doing or thinking is another form of mindfulness.
Calming the mind does begin with eliminating most of the distractions we occupy ourselves with so that we won’t be bored. Instead of distracting, we can focus on what we are doing.
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The Path to Creativity
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Some might consider the best path painful.
Creativity occurs in degrees. We are always looking for ways to make our lives simpler, things more convenient, life more affordable, activities less boring, food more interesting, exercise more appealing, romance more exciting and so on.
In fact that is just the problem. We have too much on our minds to be creative in one area. We are trying to improve our lives while carrying on our daily activities of work or study or parenting. In the few minutes in between we probably say I wish this were more…. Or less…
Then when we have a few minutes we are checking our messages, texting, listening to our I Pods, surfing the net, checking on the news and talking.
Creativity needs space, quiet and focus. The mind/brain needs time off. Most of our activity is in the left brain beta wave driven logical calculating sphere. Or we are ramped up in our emotion centered alpha wave driven right brain emotional sphere.
Real creativity originates out of the slower theta and delta wave centers of the reptilian brain where we venture when we sleep or meditate.
In his book “The Mindful Brain” Harvard Medical graduate, doctor and psychiatrist discusses how to get mindfulness or mind/brain control. It is nothing new to most, but as a busy person with his own children and full schedule he took time off to slow down. He took a week off to spend time in groups where he couldn’t talk and could only spend time quieting his mind.
Just as Patt Lynn-Kyle wrote about in “Heal Your Mind Rewire Your Brain”, you have to slow down the monkey chatter to get creative thoughts if you are not accustomed to tapping your creative mind. She has taken as much as three months at a time where she and others would not talk and spent time focusing and slowing down the mind’s busyness.
I have the perfect scenario for tapping creativity. I rise early in the morning refreshed with nothing on my mind but creating a few writings. When I have spent my energy I walk across the street to the beach and either exercise or sit looking and listening to the waves.
When I am sufficiently refreshed or my mind has been energized or relaxed by exercise, I can return for another session of writing. I do not have electronic devices that I check when I am not at my computer. My down time is 100% downtime.
I create intensely focused work time and extremely focused or relaxed withdrawal time. I have started to spend short periods of meditation or as Daniel J. Siegel would say “mindfulness time”.
We often engage in one activity and are thinking about other activities. We go for a walk and think about what happened last Sunday. We eat and think about what is on schedule for the next day. We exercise and listen to music to take our minds off the pain.
We are never in the here and now. Creativity comes from digging deep into the here and now. Mindfulness comes from paying attention to what is going on this second and allowing the mind/brain to balance.
Meditation is focusing on the breath or the sensual experiences of sitting outside. Walking meditations are thinking only about each step and what we are feeling each second. Meditation is about thinking of one word and seeing how long we can keep out our encroaching monkey chatter.
If you want to create real change with innovative or creative thinking every day, you need to focus, lock out distractions, and access your peaceful core.
Revelations, epiphanies, and ahas come from a synchronicity of the mind/brain function that swirl in and out of the physical brain. A balance of the emotional and logical spheres focused on relaxation can give rise to breakthroughs a busy mind can’t grasp.
Innovation, Creativity, and Inspiration
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At a time when larger organized and smaller businesses and the self employed need greater revenues and cost savings, new thought processes are the most valuable asset.
In this era when capital is tight, new ideas are needed every day.
Innovation is creating changes to a production process, services, or to products that create greater acceptance or efficiencies that should lead to increased profitability.
“The key to increasing your job security in these turbulent times is to make yourself more valuable. A key way to do that is to improve your creative problem-solving skills.” Church Frey InnovationTools.com
A key to creating a new business or improving your existing one is to find new processes, new services, or product changes that could help others save time, money, improve convenience or find more enjoyment.
“Executives surveyed call out creativity as the most important attribute needed in their people” – quotes from Church Frey InnovationTools.com
Carol Kobza has spent more than two decades fostering creative growth in organizations as diverse as Hallmark Cards…says that people need to be “learning and finding the inner reserves of creativity they need to make their work meaningful and fulfilling.”*
Creativity is capital. We all have this capital in abundance. If we can contribute this personal capital to the work place or the economic environment, we could receive real currency in return and more personal satisfaction.
The best source of tapping our “inner reserves” is to find our inspiration. How do we create a process to generate inspiration?
Creativity is right brain thinking applied to left brain knowledge. The logical fact oriented left hemisphere of the neo cortex understands the current existence of situations. The right hemisphere is more oriented to spatial analysis and can connect with the limbic brain which is our emotional center.
The mind/ brain synchronicity can control the physical regulation and movement of our bodies but can also give us access to thoughts, sensations, revelations, epiphanies, and “ahas” outside the physical.
We are born with easy access to our creativity and display it daily in our adolescence. In fact, the limbic brain never matures which is why we often display childish emotions.
Because we are raised to color inside the lines and follow the rules and respect authority, most people lose their ability to color outside the lines.
The never ending well of new ideas is best unleashed by finding our inspiration. Like BP couldn’t stop the flow of oil, inspiration is just as rich. Inspiration flows from the emotional side of our brain that creates a desire to express.
The left side of the brain knows “what is” and the right side can envision “what could be”.
How can you tap your reserves? You need more quiet time. You need to start reducing the unnecessary stimulus of digital and mobile devices. You need to establish your connection with nature and appreciation of who you are and why you are here.
You need to let go of the motivational goals of creating only for a reward. You need to develop a desire to create things that express who you are. These expressions have an emotional source that can coordinate with the left brain for logical, language, and technical output.
But the expression becomes creative whether it is art or business. Taping the artistic expression is a great way to find inspiration.
Art, crafts, literature, music, dance and even physical sports like surfing, hiking, running can connect and coordinate our brain centers to who we are and an appreciation of why we are here.
Inspiration is creation without a goal of rewards other than the opportunity to participate in the act of doing.
All expressions out of inspiration become emotional expressions. They could be art, they could be culinary, they could be literature or music, or they could be physical. They could also be the source of running a business, a division, or a department.
The inspired person who has learned to express themselves in one area will find that it bleeds over to all activities. The inspired person is happier, more self satisfied, and wants others to enjoy the same feelings.
Today artists, athletes, entertainers, and business people express who they are and often find it very lucrative.
Business has plenty of people at minimum wage. If you want to rise higher on the pay scale become a creative problem solver or inspired innovator.
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How to Win in Our Chaotic Environment
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Ever feel like you fell into the washing machine?
I have been following economic reports, politics, and consumers thoughts on the economy.
Everyone differs on whether we are going up or down and everyone is right. The politicians are trying to espouse the best ideas to get elected in a very fragmented electorate.
The fragmentation of the political scene reflects the need for too many solutions.
It’s chaos and it won’t be better for everyone for quite a while. Half the industries and businesses are up and half are still going down.
Businesses are sitting on cash because they are afraid and consumers are having more difficulty paying off debt. Government has too little too late.
It is time for extreme individualism.
We have to be responsible for our own welfare and our own happiness. We can clearly not be dependent on anyone else for either. There do not seem to be any safety nets.
During the Renaissance, man became enamored with his capabilities and education stressed academics, physical prowess, and artistic endeavors.
Today we can do the same.
Finding Happiness has to be independent of careers as hard as that may seem. We have to have a larger picture of who we are and why we are here.
If every so many years we go into recession, we shouldn’t put happiness on hold because we have doubts about ourselves. From birth to death we are learning and facing new experiences.
In times of severe challenge we have to become more self reliant. We have to get in training to face great resistance. We can start by appreciating our ability to feel better without the need for more money.
We can exercise and eat better and have immediate results. We can spend our time developing more knowledge and skills by reading. We can increase our brain’s capacity to absorb by reducing distractions like continuous connection to digital and mobile devices.
People are stressed and bored partially because they spend too much time wasting their energy. Energy has to be reapplied to becoming healthier and smarter.
Growth increases enthusiasm, self esteem and confidence.
As jobs are threatened and continue to diminish you have to be more competitive. You need to be more creative, a better problem solver, and maybe a better innovator.
Businesses have the same problems and needs as you the individual. You can’t say woe is me and hope for better times. You can be aggressive and assertive and make your own future.
You can lead with your own optimism and reenergized self development and take people with you. Be more academic, more physical, and more creative.
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The New Age Needs the New Man and Woman
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We seem to be circled by limitations as our potential increases.
What I mean is that the economy seems to restrict our growth.
Businesses are slow to reach into new opportunities.
Job descriptions become narrower and less lucrative.
And yet technology, social connection, information access, device capacity and speed are increasing geometrically. I mentioned yesterday that the one gigabyte internet speed arising increases current broadband speed by 200 times.
Why such discord and how do we move against the grain?
Two different paths crossed. The never ending innovation in technology crossed the path of the greedy unregulated financial system. The global reduction of 50% of equity and capital created a severe cramp in consumerism.
It’s like having hotel set up a giant banquet table but you can’t get in because the door is locked.
The key for your future growth is personal development.
The institutions that we depended upon to act as partners have stopped working together. The banks, corporations, and government are at odds over trying to both stimulate new growth and protecting from a melt down happening again.
Taxes, regulation, and finance are a mess and working counter productively.
The fourth institution, the individual, is on his own.
What is needed in this new era?
It seems college educations have little currency. Millions of people are unemployed that have great experience. Skill sets that were previously dependable to provide a living are no longer needed.
The first personal characteristic necessary is resolve. There are unlimited obstacles to growth even though there is increased capacity to perform.
A second characteristic is flexibility. What ever it is you think you were training for or skills you have developed have to be reconciled with what is in demand.
A third ability necessary is to spot the niches that can serve the current blocked pathways using the increased capacity. Every single institution has the need for increased revenues and to reduce expenses.
To become more efficient, businesses must fire people, make existing employees work harder, or outsource work to more efficient third parties.
Third parties can perform labor, can work with data, can create marketing, can sell as a partner or affiliate, can consult on problems in every department, can train, can provide short term services as needed, can manage, and can create product or services that can be sold.
Inspiration can lead to maximizing the one area of endeavor you want to provide. Inspiration creates the necessary determination and commitment to find a place for your skill. Inspiration creates the activity that is fulfilling while you are working toward success.
The institutions have let us down. It is up to us to become our own institution.
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