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How Is Your Creativity?
Posted by: | CommentsAre you creative? How convinced are you that your attitudes and Self-Esteem help you to be more creative? Would you like to improve your creativity? Here are some ways to do just that:
1. Invest in a creative journal. Write your ideas in the journal daily. Keep track of your ideas at all times. Carry a notebook wherever you go. Keep a notebook beside your bed. Ideas can come at strange times. Frequently, ideas come when we least expect them. The same idea may never come again. So, it is important to make a record of each idea right away. To facilitate this, you may want to carry a notepad and pen or micro-cassette recorder with you at all times. Listen to your hunches and intuitions, particularly during moments of relaxation – before going to sleep or upon awakening.
2. Ask new questions every day. A curious mind is a creatively active mind.
3. Learn about things outside of your specialty.
4. Be flexible. Notice your patterns of behavior. Find several solutions to each challenge. Discover new viewing points.
5. Be open and receptive to ideas. They can be fragile. Listen to them. Freely entertain apparently wild, far-fetched, or even silly ideas. This is part of the creative process.
6. Be alert in observation. Look for similarities, differences and unique and distinguishing features in objects, situations, processes, and ideas. The more new associations and relationships you can form, the greater your chances are of coming up with really creative and original combinations and solutions.
7. Engage in hobbies, especially those that allow you to construct or produce something with your hands. Also, keep your brain trim by playing games, doing puzzles, and mental exercises.
8. Improve your sense of humor. Laugh easily. Humor relieves tension. You are more creative when you are relaxed.
9. Adopt a challenge-taking attitude. Nothing is more fatal to creativity than fear of failure.
So there you have it. Invest in your Self-Esteem to become more creative in your relationships and career and then, watch what happens!
What Are Psychological Needs?
Posted by: | CommentsWill you have all of your needs fulfilled during any period of time? Have you saved your money to better guarantee that you will satisfy your financial needs? What if you do not satisfy these needs? What will you do? How will you feel? What percentage of those needs are material? What percentage are psychological?
This could be the time for you to review your six basic psychological needs. Each person, deep inside, feels the power of those six needs. If one of these needs is not satisfied, a deep-seated restlessness develops. It is like a vague unrequited longing and an undercurrent of disappointment that colors every minute of the day and night. Look at the number of teenagers and adults who feel helpless and hopeless. These are examples of people with unfulfilled needs. Let’s review these six psychological needs:
Naturally, the first psychological need is Self-Esteem, which is the self respect you feel for yourself. Everyone has intact Self-Esteem when they are born. Gradually Self-Esteem may be diminished by criticism and comparison. The loss of Self-Esteem has a lifetime effect on relationships and careers.
The second need is for security. The only security is internal security. Relationships, situations, and careers may change. However, our inner security can accept any challenge.
Our third need is for creative expression. No one has fundamental happiness if they are not being creative in their leisure hours and their work.
The fourth basic psychological need is for recognition. Everyone needs to be appreciated. How often this week did someone say , “I appreciate you”? How often did you say it to someone? Every person needs to be regarded by someone as important and special.
The fifth need is for new experiences. Variety is the spice of life. How many new experiences will you create in the next few months?
The sixth need is for love. I believe love is T.U.L. (Total Unconditional Love) of yourself and others.
Take the time to review your life. Be gentle and kind with yourself as you discover where you are with each of these needs.
Satisfy these six basic psychological needs and then, watch what happens!
Do You Relax And Enjoy Life?
Posted by: | CommentsHave you noticed how many people talk about the weather? People are concerned about snow, ice, temperature, rain, and the sun. People’s feelings can change because of their attitudes toward the daily weather. How do you feel about the daily weather changes? Do you feel any distress? Can you relax with the daily weather changes? Other potential areas for distress could be career or business changes, health, relationship tension, and unrealized expectations. How do you handle distress?
We will all have distress as we journey through life. How can we relax and enjoy life? Here are some suggestions:
1. Clarify your values. Discover what is important to you. Ask yourself, “If I only had six months to live what would I need to do, what would I want to do, and how are my relationships?” Then for the rest of your life, focus on these things and forget about the pressures you and others put on you.
2. Learn to relax. How is this possible? All you need is a quiet room. Start, by blotting out distractions for 10 to 15 minutes a day. Then build this up to a minimum of one hour of quiet time every day. Listen to mellow jazz or other relaxing music.
3. Be aware of your self talk and improve it. We all talk to ourselves and much of it is self-critical. Discipline yourself to emphasize the things you like about yourself. A book that can help you know about self-talk is, What to Say When You Talk to Yourself, by Shad Helmstetter, Ph.D..
4. Exercise regularly. Check with your doctor first and then find an exercise that you can do three times a week for 20 minutes each time.
5. Eat nutritionally. Discover how to fuel your body with the nutrition it needs to operate for you at the highest level.
6. Create balance in all seven areas of your life: Social, Financial, Mental, Spiritual, Physical, Career, and Family.
7. Release chemical dependency. One definition of stress is loss of control. The need to acquire control through artificial means accounts for the popularity of nicotine, alcohol, caffeine and drugs.
I believe that only with intact Self-Esteem can we find freedom from distress.
Decide now to make the next 12 months free from distress and then, watch what happens!
