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“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.
The second best time is now.” ~Chinese Proverb

There are many young adults today completely lost. Totally disillusioned and frustrated.

So many fine young men and women in their 20s, 30s, and even 40’s who’ve lost touch with the natural maturation process of personal development and personal success. These individuals seek instant gratification. They want success, and they want it now! The phrase, “paying your dues” unfortunately, doesn’t register or doesn’t apply to them . . . or so they think.

Why? I’m thinking you can go ahead and blame it on the microwave oven. Yes, the microwave oven. Think about it, these same “kids” are now adults and they’ve only known one thing — instant gratification! Need a quick meal? Pop it in the microwave. How about some leftovers - throw it in the microwave. The trusty microwave has now made the concept of “waiting” obsolete.

Consider that on some Freudianesque level, one of our most basic needs - food (warm food) has been relegated to a 30 second episode. There are now multiple generations programmed for instant gratification.

Over the last 30 years the microwave has subconsciously programmed millions of youth to think that they can have anything — right away. Whether it’s a pizza or, I humbly submit to you, success. *more* »

And the men who hold high places
must be the ones to start,
to mold a new reality – closer to the heart.
The blacksmith and the artist –
reflect it in their art,
they forge their creativity
Closer to the heart
“Closer to the heart” ~ Rush
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If you want to create an apple pie from scratch
you first have to create the universe.
~Carl Sagan

Creativity – your essence.

The very word conjures up images of poets leisurely writing poems . . . artists with abundant talent painting masterpiece after masterpiece that future generations will come to admire.

A romantic version of creativity? You bet. Real? Not by a long shot! If creativity isn’t a word you associate with your everyday life or “SUCCESS” then it’s absolutely vital you change your mindset—now. Far too many people – before they even graduate high school have already begun to disassociate their creativity from their personality. Taught to assume a life of responsibility instead of creativity. You might have been led to believe that you will have to choose between living the creative life or living a practical life.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

To excel at any endeavor–particularly in the business world–it’s essential that you embrace your creative essence. *more* »

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post by Mitch W. Steel

here’s a quote I’m rather fond of… It rephrases the age old proverb, “necessity is the mother of invention” to “necessity isn’t the mother of invention – invention is.”

Napoleon Hill wrote the all-time classic personal development book, Think and Grow Rich. The book is based on his 20-year study of the greatest minds of his time, including Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. He discovered from this exercise that there human creativity took basically two different forms – synthetic imagination and creative vision.

Synthetic imagination joins your pre-existing ideas, your concepts and your products and transforms them into something completely different, into a completely new form or a new, unanticipated solution to a problem. Very little of what is created today is absolutely original – from scratch, if you will. In fact, many of our greatest inventions are based upon the concept of synthetic imagination. Perhaps that is what Isaac Newton said when he attributed his greatest discoveries to the ability to “stand on the shoulders of giants.”

Really when you consider it further necessity, in reality, is the GRANDMOTHER of invention.

For example, the garbage can. Yes, the lowly, smelly garbage can. The original intent of the garbage can was to have a receptacle to place the garbage collected during the course of a week in your household. A simple enough need.

Soon, the garbage bag was invented. One invention – the garbage can – spawned yet another invention, the garbage BAG. This, in a nutshell, is synthetic imagination. In other words, this is simply a creative way to combine two pre-existing ideas or inventions.

The second type of creativity is creative vision. *more* »