Weekender November 3, 2001
Volume 3, Issue 44
Creativity
Quote: The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up... Creativity has a lot to
do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground
without thinking about where they're going. They trip, they fall down, and then they get back up
again and run some more. They have a wonderful belief: that everything will be all right. They
feel capable; they let go; they play... No matter how many facts and figures you have, you can't
predict the future. There will always be surprises...Creativity helps us realize that we
don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something - feel it and use it - without ever fully comprehending it.
Faith Ringgold creates colorfully painted quilts
that document the lives of African Americans as
well as writing children books.
Source: "Unit of One," Fast Company, April 2000.
Leadership
Quote: People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just
as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Bob Klas is the president of TapeMark (St. Paul, MN)
Source: "Best Advice: Inspire Others to be Their Best"
by Dale Dauten, Arizona Republic, August 6, 2001
Action
Quote: He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.
Chinese proverb
Source: The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
UK
Personal Growth
Quote: The most important direction we can go isn't east or west or north or south, it is inside
ourselves. There is a path to your own heart, your own treasure chest, and I would like you to follow it.
Bernie Siegel is an oncologist who writes on the power of
the mind to heal the body.
Source: How to Live Between Office Visits: A Guide to Life, Love and Health
by Bernie S. Siegel, MD
UK
Courage
Quote: The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Corra May White Harris (1869-1935) was the author
of Circuit Rider's Wife and several other books.
Source: Treasury of Women's Quotations
compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner
Bonus Reading on Thought
by Guy Finley
You possess a potential power that is superior to any difficulty that life may ever present. This immense inner capability enables anyone who will claim it to instantly rise above his challenge. It makes no difference what form the challenge may assume or how huge it looms. This latent power of yours can render it harmless and ultimately make it disappear. This friendly force that can turn your life into a series of victories is the power to question defeat. If we honestly examine the way we presently question our defeats, we will see that we are still desperately seeking answers that serve only to correct the surface or exterior conditions. We blame circumstances for crushing us. By their very nature, our old questions tend to make and then keep us victims, because these questions imply that someone or something outside of ourselves is punishing us. No human being is a victim of any punishment outside of his own undeveloped life level from which his inner reactions are seen as outer attacks. This is why we must learn to turn our questions into tools for developing self-wholeness instead of letting them lead us off in the wrong direction. These ten new questions are the power that defeats defeat. They alone insure total victory. Use these questions to see the difference between how you used to think and how you will question defeat from now on. You will win! Questions for Self-Wholeness
1. Instead of always asking yourself, Why do these things always happen to me?
2. Instead of always asking yourself why things had to go this way or be that way...
3. Instead of always asking yourself how to protect yourself in challenging situations...
4. Instead of always asking yourself how to clear up your mental fog...
5. Instead of always asking yourself what to do about tomorrow (or the next minute)...
6. Instead of always asking yourself: Why does so-and-so act this or that way?
7. Instead of always crying out: Why me?
8. Instead of always asking yourself if you've made the right choice...
9. Instead of always asking yourself how to get others to approve of you...
10. Instead of always asking yourself: Why doesn't so-and-so see how wrong they are?
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