Expand Creativity - Add OXYGEN

Creativity is defined by the Business dictionary.com as

Mental characteristic that allows a person to think outside of the box, which results innovation or different approaches to a particular task."

How can we expand our creativity?
Add O.X.Y.G.E.N.

Openness - Be open to opportunities. Open your ears to really listen and hear what is around you. Be open to what you see - both stark and subtle contrasts.

What can you be open to today that will expand your creativity?

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eXcitement - Get excited and adventurous. Watch child play. Laugh out loud. Increase your energy and allow your self to feel anticipation.

What will excite you to expand your creativity?

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You - Discover YOU. Discover your interests, your talents, your strengths. Discover what you would like to learn more about your challenges and what you need to learn to expand your creativity.

Where are you currently creative?

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Gratitude - Be grateful for the potential that you and others possess. Be grateful that creativity is in the eye of the beholder and we all have the potential to masters of our own art.

How can you allow gratitude to help you to be more creative?

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Expectations - Expect that with each creativity is interesting, challenging, motivating and yes often times just plain hard work.

What are your expectations for and with your creativity?

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New Approaches - Take a new path, a new road, a new mindset.

What new approaches will you take today?

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It's all up to you.

Promoting Health & Wealth - Gathering Info

In the past few years, I have been working on creating a process to help me and others called ACTS(TM) - To Liberate Our Potential. There are many ways to gather information and/or assess our wants and needs. ACTS(TM) is an acronym for four simple steps that I use to serve as a guide to happiness, health and success.

The A represents Assess. This is information gathering stage. All too often, I have found that one will attempt to jump into solving a health, life or wealth problem with an obvious or superficial solution, only to find it is not the best solution. This step of ACTS causes us challenges because it takes time, effort, reflection, patience and trust. To effectively appreciate our current situation, we must be willing to patiently research and investigate the real cause of our distress or discomfort.

There are many approaches and tools and techniques one can use to gather the appropriate data. The value of using some type diagnostic or psycho-metric approach helps to give us a starting point.

An example is the DISC instrument. According to Wikipedia, DISC, is the four quadrant behavioral model based on the work of William Moulton Marston PhD (Harvard University) to examine the behavior of individuals in their environment or within a specific situation. It therefore focuses on the styles and preferences of such behavior. This tool gives one an understanding of their style of behavior - Decisive, Interactive, Stabilizing and Cautious. We all have an element of each but we each have a natural styles that dominate.

Again, this is only one example - assessing our IQ, personality, thinking style, motivators, emotional intelligence..., this list can get quite lengthy. Enjoy the journey and have fun the greatest unexplored terrain to date - the human behavior.

Throughout the course of the year, I will be sharing the rest of this simple ACTS(TM) process.

All the best in health and wealth,

Laura

Promoting Health and Wealth - Problems and Questions

In reflection, I realize that one of the biggest reasons that I started this journey is because I wanted to work on my personal accountability. In the past, I have worked very hard on helping others increase their personal accountability and achieve success. Then it dawned on me, if I develop my own personal accountability, I would definitely improve my health and wealth.

Our bodies are wonderfully designed - our body is a reflection of all that we put out in the world, even if what we put out is only a thought. For example, I am fortunately a really healthy person, rarely get sick. For most of my life, however, whenever I would move into a mode of working excessive hours, pushing, pushing, controlling projects or events, I would end up with a terrible cold and then acute bronchitis. As I dug deeper into the cause of this problem, I became aware that my body was telling me to slow down, enjoy the ride and pay attention to the beauty of the experience rather than just plowing through. My body gave me the message loud and clear.

You're working too hard!
This job or project is not for you!
It's time to take a break!

I still didn't totally get the message for other aspects of my life that might be holding me back.. I wasn't really consciously making the best decisions but at least when a cold cropped up, I knew it was time to stop and ask what I needed to change or do differently.

One great resource for helping me in this process to improve personal accountability to help I me to enhance my strength in the questioning arena is great book by John G. Miller, called QBQ - The Question Behind the Question. In my opinion, this is one of the best books in the market today on personal accountability.

This book can be read in about an hour and can help one master the art of questioning. I don't want to give away the essence of the book, it is well worth the investment in time and money.

What about you, any suggestions on how to enhance this questioning, discovery process to help promote extraordinary health and wealth.

All the best in health and wealth,

Laura