I know I have a lot of work to do to add more content to Creators Create, but from what I have seen already the trend is becoming more and more obvious to me.

People frequent Mark McGuiness’s Blog Lateral Action, which by the way is a tremendous Blog.  I can’t say enough good about it.  And there are many more Blogs and Forums that deal with creativity and creatives.

But that’s not what this Blog is about.

This Blog is about Creators and the things they create – creations.  It’s not about creativity.
 
Many, too many people believe that in order to create a creation you must have creativity.

That is the biggest bunch of whooey I have ever heard.  The fact is you don’t need an ounce of creativity to be able to create creations.
The problem is that most people don’t know what a creation is, therefore they don’t know the role of a creator, nor do they understand the process of creating.

So if you don’t mind, I would like to take a few minutes and go back to the very basics of what this Blog is really all about.

Definitions:

Create = to bring into existence.

Creator = one who brings things into existence.

Creation = the thing that is brought into existence.

There you have it.  It’s really not any more complicated than that.  Creators bring creations into existence by the act of creating.
The truth is that every single one of us on this planet are powerful creators.  We cannot not create.  We daily create creations. 
Everything you bring into existence is a creation that you create.

Here let me give you a few examples:

1. You created breakfast this morning.
2. You created a few emails just a few minutes ago.
3. You created a “Good Morning” smile for your boss this morning when you got to work.
4. You created a better or worse relationship with your spouse today.
5. You created a resume.
6. You created a clean room.
7. You created a hungover body.
8. You created an argument.
9. You created a funny moment when you told that joke.
10. You created an endearing experience when you shared your feelings with a close friend.

Are you starting to understand now what a creation is?  Are you starting to see that you are constantly creating?  You are a creator, and you are always creating creations.

The question now is:  Are the creations you create valuable, important, that improve and bless your life?

Or are most of the creations that you create created by default, without purpose and therefore are useless, unimportant, and do nothing to improve or bless your life?

The chances are since you don’t look at the things that you bring into existence as creations that you probably aren’t all that worried about the quality.

Come to this Blog often and I promise you will begin to look at your whole existence in a whole new light.

With that whole new light you can begin to create on purpose.  You will create consciously amazing creations that improve, bless and inspire.

You will find you are a powerful creator.  Come back often to learn how.

Oh, and I did I even mention that it doesn’t take an ounce of creativity to be a creator?

By the mere fact that you bring things into existence is proof enough that you are a creator.

You don’t need creativity to create.  Creativity is only one tool in the creator’s tool box, and not even a very important tool at that. 

Creators create creations, and every once in awhile they might use creativity.
 
We’ll get into the details of this later on.  Come back often to learn more.

If you have thoughts on the subject please don’t hesitate to leave a comment, and engage in a discussion. I look forward to it.

Every time I talk about creation, creating, and creators inevitably someone brings up the thought that they don’t have a creative bone in their body, that they’re not creative, that they are not imaginative, they’re not artistic, they have no creativity, and that whatever I’m talking about is not interesting to them, because they just have never been very creative, and they don’t want talk about creativity. 

Believe me, I understand.  But what I’m about to say might actually clear this up for you forever.

You don’t need to be creative in order to create.

I want you to put a smile on your face.  Do it right this very second.

Good.

There, you created.  You just put a smile on your face, and that is a creation.  The definition of “create” is to bring into existence, and the definition of “creator” is someone who brings things (creations) into existence.  So by definition you are a creator.  You brought something into existence – the smile that wasn’t there before.

And you didn’t even need creativity in order to create the smile.  Creativity is not a prerequisite in order to create.  It’s not even a necessary component.  Creativity relates to the quality of your creation but it’s not necessary in order to bring a creation into existence. 

So what does all this mean to you?

You need to recognize that you have the power to create whatever you want to create.  The fact is, you are where you are today because you created what you are today.  You are sitting where you’re sitting because you made the choice to sit there; you created that experience in your life.  If you had desired to create a different experience you would be sitting somewhere else or walking somewhere else, or in a different place altogether.  But you are where you are right now because you chose to be where you are right now – you created this experience.

If you recognize that everything you do is a creation then you can start to quantify or measure your creations.  You could start to quantify and measure the creations that you create.

Then you could make your creations more valuable and important to you.

Have you sent out an e-mail today?

If you sent out an e-mail today you are a creator.  You created that e-mail.  That e-mail did not exist until you wrote it and sent it.  Recognize that you created it.

Now you can measure it, and improve it.  You can measure how fast that e-mail went out, how fast you typed it, and you can even measure the quality in which you typed it, how many words you typed, how many paragraphs, or how many sentences.  You can measure how fast you typed it.  You can measure even the quality of what you typed: did it communicate the message that you wanted it to communicate?  Did it accomplish what you wanted it to accomplish?  All those things you can measure and improve upon to make your creation more valuable and important.  And again not a single one of those requires creativity, but nevertheless, sending that e-mail was indeed a creation that you created.

Since you can measure the creations that you create you can quantify the quality and value that you give your creations.

Too many people do not consciously create creations that are valuable in their lives.  Instead they live their lives on autopilot, or they create by default; they don’t consciously create experiences that are valuable and important to them – they just live by default.

This morning did you consciously create a wonderful experience?  Did you create a wonderful creation called “getting ready for work?”  Was it a wonderful creation?  Did you have joy in it?  Did you make it a beautiful creation for the people around you to enjoy as well?  Did you make it a beautiful creation for yourself?  Did you make it a memorable beautiful creation for you?  Or did you just wake up, hop in the shower, brush your teeth; you know, do the regular rigmarole and then come in to work?

Today I challenge you to look at the creations that you create and ask yourself is this a creation that I think is important, is it valuable, or is this a creation that I created by default?

Too often we think that we are-all-that-and-a-bag-of-chips, that we can get along without anyone else’s help.  But I recognize that this blog wouldn’t amount to anything if it weren’t for you.

I need readers.  I need people who are actually interested in the subject of creation.  I need people who want to be creators – or I am just sitting here typing on a blank wall.

You are important to me.  You are the reason I am writing. I want you to know that I appreciate you.
 
Since this venture is relatively new.  I haven’t spent a whole lot of time marketing this site.  I intent on doing a ton of marketing these next few months, but for now this is just a beginning.

I would like to know what you would like me to write about.  What interests you about creation?  What do you want to know about being a creator?  What is your perspective on the whole subject?

I would greatly appreciate your comments.  I hope that we can begin a dialog about creation and creators.  I am passionate about the subject and want to share my findings.

Send me a comment – I appreciate it!

“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.”
-Theodore Hesburgh

There is a well known proverb that says, “Where there is no vision the people parish” (Proverbs 29:18) This is true. 

Start on a trip without a destination and you will never know if you arrive, because you don’t know where you are going.  There has to be a destination, some place that you are trying to get to.  Wandering aimlessly will lead to aimless discoveries and locations. 

Too often people live this way.  They never chart a course, look at a map and much less never know if they are even heading in the right direction.  They say they know where they want to go and what they want to do with their lives but they have no idea where they are headed.

Creators start at the end. They ask the vital question, “What do I want to create?”

Most of the time we go through life as if we have been given a car and told to drive down the freeway of life with no particular destination in mind. The signs let us know an exit is coming up soon, and we must make a choice, “Do I stay on the freeway or do I take the exit?” When we feel a need – hunger, pain, thirst, etc. – we turn off looking for relief. We make a choice. Once we are satisfied we usually get back on the freeway driving aimlessly in no particular direction.

Many of us stay on the freeway of life because it’s the easiest; society hands us a set of keys and tells us to go for a drive. We may not have anywhere special to go but parents and peers expect us to take our place on the freeway. So, we just keep driving until we have to make another choice out of need.

Creators start with their destination fully locking in their mind. It may be across the mountains where there are no roads. If that’s the case, they get rid of the car and get a mule or start walking. If it’s on the other side of a lake, they find a boat. The process becomes dependent upon the desired destination.
 
The destination is the creation. The true creator knows what they want to create and they set out to create it.

“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” -The Koran

In order to create you must have a destination, a vision of where you want to be when you finally get there.  Even though great artists’ works sometimes look like they just threw the pain on the canvas, and many times that is just what they did. 

World famous Jackson Pollock is a good example of this (Look Above).  But the absolute truth is he never did it without calculations.  It was purposeful and in a destination of his vision.  He set out to make a painting look a certain way or represent a certain feeling or emotion, or elicit a purposeful response, or was designed to generate many different responses – but that was the vision in the very first place – not aimless wandering, or aimless splattering of color on a canvas. 

If you don’t know what outcome you want, or even a slight idea, how can you possibly know what to do or how to do it to generate any outcome that would be valuable or important to you as the creator.

Creators create creations of value – remember that.  Set your course and create!

“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.”
-Mary Kay Ash

And humans weren’t made to fly either.   Have you ever flapped your arms and taken off the ground?  Have you ever jumped off a roof and thought you could fly.  The Wright brothers were told again and again that man wasn’t able to fly. 

There were others at the time of the Wright brothers that were trying many different methods and all had failed.  Did that stop the Wright brothers?  Did they just stop doing what they were doing and give up?  I’m quite sure that they had plenty of reason to stop and give up.  I’m absolutely sure that they contemplated quitting a time or two.  But they didn’t know better and so kept on going. 

Maybe that’s the key – not knowing better.  From a young age we are all put on a track because we are told that is the best track to be on. 

We are made to feel from a young age that many of the things that happen in life can be filed under the category of, “that’s life”.  We go through these things, like hard times, weak moments, sad days, and arguments and such because, “that’s life”. 

So maybe the Wright brothers just didn’t know better.  They kept on trying because they weren’t told that you shouldn’t keep trying because you’ll fail and you won’t have the success you want.

Which brings me to another thought – how many times did Thomas Edison keep trying?

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.”
-Thomas Alva Edison

10,000 failures?  Wow, that is almost too much to keep going.  What happened?  If taken in a nutshell and if created in a vacuum I bet at attempt 99 he wanted to just give up and throw in the towel.  But that is not how it works.  You keep doing because of why?

1. Vision
   He had the end vision in mind.  He clearly knew that he wanted to create a light bulb.  The light bulb was his creation.  It was the end destination, and he wasn’t about to stop, or give up until he arrived.That would be like going on a trip to a far country and being content with only getting half way there.  “Oh, I went on vacation to the Bahamas, but only got half way there,  the plane kept making a funny noise and wasn’t working, so I decided that I’d stop right there (in the middle of the ocean).”
2. You can build on failures just as well as you can build on successes
   Each  time he failed he learned important lessons not to do, or things to do the next time, each time was a lesson to prod him on to the next.  It was a journey.  Not failure after failure, but lesson after lesson.  He learned from each lesson one more detail that was necessary to reach success.
3. You keep on going till you reach your destination
   You don’t quit or give up because the road less traveled is hard
4. Stay the course and enjoy the ride

So stop listening to reason.  Dream big.  Go for your dreams.  Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t – not even you.  You don’t know better – so keep going till you arrive at your destination – your creation!

Creators Create don’t you know?

Most true creators are guided by a mysterious thing called “purpose”.  They follow their purpose and create lives that are filled with value and splendor.

We all want a purpose, yet to many it seems like an all-important unobtainable thing. So how do you find your prupose in life?

First, accept that it may take time to find your purpose in life. It may reauire trial and error before you get it right. Mistakes are a great way to uncover your purpose because you have the opportunity to find out what you like and don’t like. After many, “don’t likes”, and “why do I keep doing the same things over an over again”, comes a time of personal freedom and peace. Once you figure out what’s not working, you can make room for what does work.
 
Second, believe that you will know when you find it. How will you know? You will feel it in the pit of your stomach. It’s something that feels so right that you can’t imagine doing anything else. And, you will feel a strange “high” when you’re doing it. This “high” feeling may even frighten you. Don’t be afraid, it’s your inner power talking to you, letting you know that you are doing the right thing.

Third, you know you have found your purpose in life when it doesn’t revolve around you. It’s not the bigger house or the shiny new car that will make you happy. These are just goals, but they are not a substitute for your purpose in life. Your purpose in life will bring you happiness and that happiness only comes when serving and contributing to other people’s lives and making a difference for others. We were put on this earth to help each other, and that is the greatest feeling of all!

So, How Do You Create Your Purpose? Ask yourself these following questions – the answers will lead straight to your purpose:

“Who Am I”?
What kind of person are you? What’s been true of you since you were younger? Write down all the attributes that you can think of that are truly you. List the things you naturally have learned and developed over the years. You probably take these things for granted, not recognizing them for the special, significant and unique gifts they actually are.

“What Do I Love To Do?”
What do you absolutely, truly enjoy doing in your life? Consider the gifts that have helped make doing those special things possible. Your purpose will involve doing something that you love.

“What Experiences In Life Are Really Fulfilling For Me?”
Look for the times in your life that are fulfilling for you. These are times when you are just being yourself. Consider, what is it like for you while you are doing those things? What are you feeling? What’s important, special or meaningful for you? These answers hold the key to what you should be doing with your life.

“What Is My Purpose In Life?”
Once your purpose becomes clearer, create a purpose statement. A Purpose Statement contains: an action, a focus, and an intended impact. Once you write it down, you have a roadmap to follow.

“Who Can I Tell?”
Speaking your purpose will bring it into reality; and once you tell people, it becomes real. Plus, you’ll have the support of those around you who want to encourage you to live that purpose to its fullest extent.

And what if you’ve done all this work and it hasn’t come to you yet? Be patient, it will. We were all created for a reason. And, if you are determined to find your purpose, it will come your way. When something that strong is in your heart, it’s only a matter of time before you discover it. The answer is found within; it’s just a matter of time, before you can begin to create the life you truly desire.

“I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I’d rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might-have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.”
-Milton Berle

Oh, that we would all do what we want to do or even dream about.  I have often looked back on my life and wondered why I did or didn’t do a certain thing.  Although I’m afraid, most of the time I am wondering to myself why I didn’t do a certain thing. 

It’s not that I didn’t want to do it, or that I wasn’t capable of doing it, but that I just didn’t do it.   The many things that I could have done, or should have done, or might have done just keep piling up.  And when I look back I get sick to my stomach just to think about it.  I hate the “I could have” or “I should have” thoughts.

Go to any health club and ask one of the trainers what the busiest time of year is, they will all tell you that the busiest time of year is January.  Why?  Because everyone is making a New Year’s resolutions to get fit and trim.  They go religiously to the Gym on the first of the year and start fresh to get fit and trim.  They do it with all the vim and vigor of a fresh new start.  They try with all their might to keep to it, only to fall back to the old habits by February.  Another “would have” “could Have”.

One year I said to myself that I would record an album for that year.  I sing, many people have asked me over the years when I was going to or if I was ever going to record an album.  They’d surely buy it if I did.  Well that year came and went and NO album.  Funny thing is, not even a single song was recorded.

I have so many excuses why it didn’t happen – but who cares about why it didn’t happen. The fact is it didn’t happen.  I can’t go back and make it happen – into the past that is.  I could have made it happen then but I can’t go back and make it happen in the past now.  I can only be in charge of what happens in my life now.

That’s just the point – your now’s create your futures.  Your has was once an are.  And only you can decide what your has-beens or was’s were/are.  Understand?  Only you can choose.  Only you.

And along with that if you are not happy with what is – you must recognize it was you who chose you to be right there.  Only you.  Play the blame game.  Go ahead and point your finger at someone else for your discontent. Go right ahead, but no matter how much blaming and finger pointing you do – the truth is still the truth.  You chose – only you!

Get it?  Got it!  Good!

Let me explain:  Have you ever been in love?  I mean, have you ever been truly in love with someone else?

When you love someone with great passion you don’t want to let them alone.  You don’t want to be away from them or leave them for long periods of time. No, in fact, quite the contrary, you can’t stand to be away from that person.  You do whatever you can to spend your time with that person. 

You watch what you say, what you do, and how you behave.  You do nice things, you are careful because you don’t want that person to get upset with you or to be offended by anything you say or do.  You do only what is necessary to have the romance blossom and grow. Things that would cause the relationship to be cold or distant you avoid at all costs. 

The very same thing happens between a creator and a creation.  A creator desires to bring the creation into existence.  The creator loves the creation.

There have been other words used to describe this like, buy in, or empowerment, or take responsibility for, or accountable for, but I like to use the word love the best. 

When the relationship is like being in love a creator treats the creation with careful preciseness.  The creation lives because the creator loves it.

I do not think a creator can create a creation that he does not love, or at best the creation will not reach its potential.  That is where procrastination comes into play.  But when there is a passionate love for the creation the creator will at all costs create the creation. 

A creation that is passionately loved by its creator is never left alone.  It is constantly on the mind of the creator.  Creators rise early to work on the creation and retire late, if at all.

In a recent article written by Robert Ringer he wrote about John Britten, I think he said it best:

“John Britten, was born with a serious learning disability that made reading extremely difficult. Not able to learn in conventional schools, Britten attended night school and eventually earned an engineering degree from Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology. His determination to earn a degree — and, more important, gain precious knowledge — was a sign of things to come.

Britten was a quiet, unassuming, totally focused individual. Some years before I met him, he began building, of all things, a futuristic motorcycle in his garage. His stated goal was to win the prestigious Battle of the Twins international cycle race in Daytona Beach, Florida.

His cutting-edge cycle involved over 6,000 parts, most of which Britten hand-made. With the notable exception of the engine, his extraordinary machine was constructed primarily of carbon fiber, a first for the motorcycle industry.

He had dedicated helpers who worked for free, mostly at night, while holding down full-time jobs during the day. Incredibly, the actual cost of Britten’s masterpiece was not more than a few hundred dollars, while many large corporate sponsors spent several million dollars on their entries.

Working while others slept was a Britten norm that was accepted by those who agreed to become involved in his projects. Toiling around the clock became his trademark. Anything short of a superhuman pace would have made it impossible for him to build his one-of-a-kind cycle from scratch in just under eleven months, barely finishing in time for the Battle of the Twins.

With just three weeks to go before the big race, Britten’s carbon-fiber cycle crashed while being tested. It was a cruel blow, a bad break that everyone agreed Britten didn’t deserve. The task of locating and correcting the problem, then repairing the bike, seemed insurmountable — but Britten and his crew again managed to overcome all obstacles, and arrived in Daytona just in time.

Then, during the qualifying run, disaster again struck. Just twelve hours before race time, a hairline crack in a cylinder sleeve — one of the few parts Britten had not built himself — threatened to end his bid for the unofficial world championship for twin-cylinder motorcycles. Britten’s reaction? After tireless but fruitless efforts to find the right spare part in the Daytona area, Britten, who had no previous experience in welding cylinder sleeves, repaired the broken part himself.

By race time, Britten had been awake forty-seven hours straight. But, as events unfolded, it looked as though the monumental effort by him and his team would finally pay off. Once again, however, like a scene out of a depressing movie, bad luck reared its ugly head. With Britten’s cycle leading the pack, rain forced an end to the race one lap from the finish, which meant the entire race had to be run over.

In the restarted race, Britten’s cycle again led the pack most of the way, until — you guessed it — yet another non-Britten-built part, a faulty rectifier, halted his bid for victory once and for all. John Britten had captured the admiration of the racing world, but had failed to come home with a trophy.

But when he returned to New Zealand, he didn’t waste time focusing on the bad breaks he had experienced in Daytona. Instead, he went right back to work, rebuilt his handcrafted motorcycle, and returned to Daytona the next year. This time, he finally won the Battle of the Twins championship, a Rocky Balboa finish if there ever was one.

The victory doesn’t end there. The first commercial version of the Britten motorcycle sold for a record $140,000. Not a bad return on the few hundred dollars he had spent on the design and construction of the original model. “

You see, John Britten loved his creation.  He was willing to fight through whatever, doing whatever it took in order for his creation to live, to exist.

True creators passionately love their creations.  And understand this also, just as a lover will not do anything to offend his partner so too a creator will only do what is necessary to bring the creation into existence.

Too many people don’t understand that principle.  Too many think that creation is about how one can use creative techniques and principles.  They expand their imagination by “creative” problem solving, or thinking outside the box, or idea generating, or mind-mapping, or other solutions to creatively “freeing the mind” and creatively  “breaking through” barriers and obstacles that stand in the way.

Even though many of these principles and schools of thought can be involved in creating they are not necessary to create. It is not about creative problem solving or how to increase your imagination to generate a myriad of never before thought of creative alternatives.  It’s about loving your creation.

Why, you will come to see that those very approaches leave out the most important and ultimately essential question of the entire creative process: “What is it that I desire to create?”  or even better, “What do I love so much I want to bring into existence?”

The originality, the artistic, the fanciful and inventiveness that spring from the creative process is not brought about by coming up with new ideas that are “outside the box”.  Nor does creativity come about by generating many new unheard of alternatives or generating new paths to solve old problems.   In fact, it is something quite different.

Through these past years I have had occasion to sit in psychologist’s offices and hear the doctors say, “Michael does things that are so original and unusual, he is so creative. If we could only encourage it, bottle it up and give it to all our patients, then all our patients would be more original and creative.”

I hope to teach you that the path to get to the creation is important, but the creative person isn’t so much worried about the path, but more intently focused on the end result:  the creation.   True creators don’t worry so much about the process but more about the results.
 
True creators love the creation so much they want to bring it into existence.  I know I keep saying that, because it is absolutely true.

Here is an example I hope will make it more clear:  What if Michelangelo worried more about the process and took this approach while painting the famous painting of “The Creation of Adam” can you imagine the result?

“Hmm, let’s see.”  He says, “How many different ways can I paint Adam’s hand? Let me try doing it with watercolor, now charcoal, now lets try different sizes, a baby’s hand, now a grown man’s. Now let me try it on different canvases, paper, parchment, a stone wall, a ceiling?” If he had taken that approach he might have never finished the painting, and if he had finished, it would have been a hodgepodge of different alternatives.  

Truly modern art, but far from the masterpiece he actually did create.  Far from the creation that he obviously poured his whole heart and soul into, the creation that he no doubt loved.

Creative people who really know the creative process might over many years of experiments and experiences use many different methods and techniques to learn and grow in their varied disciplines.   That’s called practicing their craft.

But when it comes to creating the creator asks the most important question that can be asked, “What would I love to create?” And then with an economy of means employs only those techniques and methods that will bring the creation into existence as effectively and efficiently as possible.

Each of us, individually, have the power to be creators.  Even those of you who think you are not creative.  I am going to prove to you that you do in truth have the power to create. You have the power to create anything you desire to create.

It’s not about being artistic or painting paintings, or making sculptures, or singing or dancing; it’s about creating. It’s about loving.  If you can love, you can create.

There is one quote that I particularly like that I would like to spend the remainder of this article discussing.  I don’t know who said it.  I’ve done a search on the Internet to see who might have originally said it and I have not found a source.  Here’s the quote:

“If you want what you’ve never had you must do what you’ve never done.”

Nearly every time I read this my head begins to reel with woulda-coulda-shoulda’s.  I have had tons of great ideas throughout the years, and I know that many of them would have made me very wealthy.  So why am I not very wealthy?  Because I didn’t do what was required in order to succeed at whatever the great idea was.

It’s the “MUST DO” part that I fail at.  Now don’t get me wrong, I do stuff, even stuff that gets me closer to my desired objective.  The problem is that I don’t do what “must” be done.

You see there is a law that works 100% of the time.  It is the law of cause and effect, otherwise known as the law of the harvest, which states that what you sow you will reap.  If you plant corn seeds you get corn plants not coconut trees.
 
That is what I was doing, I was planting the wrong seeds.  XYZ idea required XYZ actions.  I was ABC actions and expecting XYZ objective.  You know the definition of insanity don’t you?  Doing what you’ve always done and expecting different results.
 
I was insane.
 
Sound familiar?  Or maybe you are as diluted as I am and convinced yourself that you indeed were planting XYZ seeds.  Be honest, did you really?  Or did you do what I did?  I planted an X seed or an XY seed and tried to pass it off as a XYZ seed.

The law of the harvest is precise.  Plant corn get corn.  It really doesn’t get any more complicated than that.  But like I said, we try to pass off what must be done with other stuff and expect our results to be our objective.

Buckminster Fuller said,”You never change the existing reality by fighting it.  Instead, create a new model that makes the old one obsolete.”

If your existing reality isn’t what you were expecting stop fooling yourself.  Realize that you are doing the wrong things.  Start doing the thing that “must” be done to bring about your desired creation.  And then stick to it until it becomes the reality you desire.

Easier said than done, I know, but that is the way these universal laws work.  Remember they work 100% of the time too.  There is no fooling them, or side stepping them.

Today I want you to pick out one objective (creation) that you can focus you attention on.FOCUS – Follow One Course Until SuccessfulNow, focus on it and do what you “MUST DO” to create it.  Nothing wavering. Onward!

To your creations,

Michael Claridge

Most people don’t discover what they want to create until it’s time to die – and that’s a shame.

Most people spend the best years of their lives watching television or doing things they dislike. An author described humanity by saying, “Most people die at twenty and are buried at eighty.” Are you one of the living zombies?

What do you really want to create?

Some people struggle in answering this question. When asked what they want or what their goals in life are, many are unsure. They dillydally in their decision, hardly giving any thought about what they want.  They live their life on auto-pilot – never realizing they have the power to create whatever they desire.

They are people without definite goals, or plans, or ideas and are letting time pass them by. Are you one of these people?

If you are undecided about what you want to create in your life, do not worry.  There are many ways of discovering your purpose in life.

To discover what you want to create, try looking deep into your heart. Oftentimes, people are ruled by logic. People live by what they think they should be or by what others would like them to be.

The discovery process is the perfect time to listen to your heart. What your heart desires comes from the whispers of your authentic self. Your authentic self is the real you; the creator.

Listen to your heart to be able to listen to your authentic self. What your heart says usually feels right. What your heart desires is what you usually love.  And what you love represents your passion, and most often your passion is what you want to create.  Anything done with passion is like play where the task is accomplished without hesitation. You pour out your very best and feel no pressure or resistance. You create the creation you are passionate about.

You will totally enjoy creating things that are your passion. Setbacks, difficulties, and obstacles will arise and make it more challenging, but should not deter you from pursuing your goals.

Naturally, there may be barriers that may prevent you from reaching your goal, but your heart’s desire will find ways to overcome these barriers so that you may ultimately create what you want to create.

Remember this: the universe supports people who are pursuing their passion and those who are pursuing their destiny.  The earth was created by a creator.

However, this does not mean that you don’t use your head. People are born with both the mind and heart. Your duty is to live your best life and be in harmony with your mind and heart.

The poet Rumi wisely said, “Live completely in the head and you cannot feel the breath and rhythm of life. Live completely in the heart and you may find yourself acting like a love-struck fool with poor judgment and discipline. It’s all a fine balance – the head and heart must forge a lifetime partnership if one wants to live a beautiful life.” 

Listen to your inner voice. Your authentic self communicates with you and guides you via an inner voice. They are those gentle nudges that urge you to act and follow a certain path. Your role then is to listen attentively.

Often times, we listen to what others say and allow them to run our lives. Parents often do this to their children. “We come from a family of doctors, so my son must also be a doctor.” How often do we hear this from parents who have good intentions for their children?

Parents unconsciously block the true expression of their child’s real self and calling. Friends and critics will discourage you and point out the impossibility of your dream. Before heeding their advice, evaluate the accomplishments of the critics. Did they achieve theirs dreams? Do they dream big at all?

Remember, it is your destiny that is in line, not theirs. It doesn’t mean, though, that you will not listen to what other people say. Hear them out just the same. But the final decision should be yours.

There is only thing to remember: Every person, to live truly and greatly, must define how he wants to live and what his brightest life will look like.  Listen to your instincts and follow your heart’s desire. You will never go wrong.  Set out to create – and do so: create creations!