Month: June 2010

Everything in life is really marketing. Buy and sell everything. Even if you are a non profit you still have to market your idea. Every idea in the whole world needs a market to survive.

This blog is a market. The thing I am marketing is my life. I am selling you my whole experience and in return what you pay me is space. I need space to think and I need a sounding board and that is what you are to me. If you glean something, then good. I hope you do and I am not wasting your time. When I write to you I am thinking and looking at the thoughts written down so I can see them better. If someone responds then it is even better as I have more thoughts to add on.

It is a fun practice to think of everything as marketing because you can make sure you are giving something valuable to life and make sure you are getting something valuable back. It should be a win win thing here.  If every word that you hear is out on the market then you can choose to buy wisely. Or not.

This is a proactive way to looking at everything. It is also a great way to evaluate if what you are giving is good too. You don’t want to be a bad value for the princely price of someone else s life do you? What are you marketing today, right now, right here???? Think about it.

photo by wolf 359

A new idea, a creative idea, a bold idea is like a golden spiderweb. Saying yes to the new idea is like making the golden spiderweb get tensile strength. Saying yes again and again to the spiderweb is like making it able to hold an elephant. And that is what the web has to do, hold an elephant.

Saying no to a new idea because of any number of reasons that seem perfectly logical is like ripping it down so that there is no more golden beautiful spiderweb. Your creative ideas are that delicate at first. Everything in your logical mind will want to destroy it because the logical side cannot see the unconscious side. It has no clue what is going on there. Until you can make your logical side shut up you cannot access the other side.

NO is shutting it up and slamming the door and putting a lock on that door. When the door is the door to freedom and wonder and new ways of solving problems. It is easy to say no, It is supposedly safe and wise and strong. No is a cement club slamming down your dream.

You might think, “well, I will avoid a lot of pain if I stop this idea from even incubating. ” that is why we say no to anything. When it comes to new and creative ideas you may get, try saying yes and you will find the power of yes is the only way to get that life you want started.If you love your job and life then guess what , you will benefit everyone around you. They will also reap the fruit of your dream.

When we are just waking up and are not quite awake, that time is twilight. You are still foggy and in a dream state and the benefits from being in that state are still available to you. Thomas Edison would take naps and hold ball bearings in his hands. As soon as he would fall asleep his hands would relax and the bearings fall out and crash on the floor waking him up. This was so he could be in twilight state of being. So this is not a new gimmick.

That is also why Julie Cameron in her book on creativity has you write morning pages. We have the most amazing connections right then. You don’t want to waste it, especially if you are thinking up a new plan for something. My husband has to listen to a steam of talk from me the minute I am aware of morning. My dreams are fresh and still around. This time is almost like a vapor it leaves so quick. I have had breakthrough ideas during twilight. You can access this ability if you know about it even more and make a point to write down thoughts first thing or tell someone.

I call it waking up the giant.

An essential part of the definition of creativity is that it is not only original and useful, but occurs in a specific domain. This view highlights the importance of recognizing the areas in which a childs particular bent falls. One way to understand this is to think of it as seven kinds of intelligences:  Languages, Math and Logic, Music, Spatial Reasoning, Movement, and Interpersonal Intelligence.

Making school a place where each of these ways of learning are offered would be the very best as it would include everyone. Traditional schools focus on Languages and Math and Logic. You are going to have a hard time getting good grades if you have other kinds of intelligence. You might be labeled a slow learner even. What a traumatic stigma to have to go through when you just have a different learning capacity.  I was one of those who did not fit in very well with traditional education.

If I could start a school I would incorporate all the seven intelligences and let the children pick the one that they can use the best. Everyone would love school then. Everyone knows we are each unique, why then have a system of schooling that is so narrow. It takes a lot more work to incorporate all the styles of learning but it wold be more useful for everyone.

Also the first few years of life are crucial to building a good foundation for living the rest of your life. I think we should throw the Television out and develop amazing play areas for children so they can find out how they learn best. If you know that half the battle is won.

The ironic think about this blog is that it is super personal and I am talking about the most important things and I am deeply sharing my heart , but it is in an isolation tank.

I write and really hardly anyone writes back more than a few words. the counter says lots of people have read this but I wonder what they are thinking.

This is what I would like to see happen. People begin to write back and they write to each other about the topics I am talking about and share their insight and experiences.

then we all can benefit. But until that happens , I am in solitary confinement. It is one thing to actually be alone and write but this is sort of a two way street.

I would love it if someone totally disagreed with me and told me so. I would also love it if someone took it to another level and proved me wrong. I also wonder what the spam is about. Is there a person who sends notes out just to get on some kind of a list. I don’t know.

Until I do know I think I will keep on till someone writes back really writes back and shares something important.