You Are Important
I want you to know how important you are to my future success. I am not kidding. I mean it.
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!
Stop Resisting and Create Something Great!
In my work I have chosen the positive approach. I never think of myself as protesting against something, but rather as witnessing for harmonious living. Those who witness for, present solutions. Those who witness against, usually do not–they dwell on what is wrong, resorting to judgment and criticism and sometimes even name-calling. Naturally, the negative approach has a detrimental effect on the person who uses it, while the positive approach has a good effect. When an evil is attacked, the evil mobilizes, although it may have been weak and unorganized before, and therefore the attack gives it validity and strength. When there is no attack, but instead good influences are brought to bear upon the situation, not only does the evil tend to fade away, but the evildoer tends to be transformed. The positive approach inspires; the negative approach makes angry. When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their base instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has life-long effect.
Peace Pilgrim
What you resist persists. If you are pushing against something then it is for sure pushing back. This just happens to be one of those irrefutable laws that cannot be changed.
It’s as powerful as the law of gravity. In fact the law of gravity helps this law out. Think about pumping iron. What force pulls the weights downward? Gravity.
I’m just want you to think about it for a few minutes. Is there something in your life that you don’t want, but day in, day out you push against it, you resist it? If so, then know that you are giving it life. You are the one giving it the strength to live on in your life.
If you are poor and you are resisting poverty then you are the one who is allowing poverty to live in your existence. If you are sick and you keep popping pills, or going to the doctors, or thinking about how awful you feel – you are the one who is giving that disease the life it needs to live on.
I know this is all so much easier said than done, but you are your creator. Always have been – always will be . . .
Create something great!
Creations Love Speed
Lately I have noticed a trend among the gurus. They are all talking about speed. Here, let me list a few of their quotes:
Bob Bly in an article entitled “The Best Business Advice You’ll Ever Get” said, “An idea has no value by itself … It only gains value when you put it into action. And too many of us … are better at thinking about doing things … than we are at actually doing them.”
Joe Vitale said, “Money loves speed.”
Robert Ringer said, “Success loves speed.”
Mike Litman “You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going.”
Michael Masterson, “Ready, Fire, Aim.”
Mark Twain commented once, “Find out where the people are going, and get there first.”
And you can probably recall a few more yourselves. All great quotes on the theme of speed. What does speed have to do with creating? I’d like to discuss that with you.
Have you ever had an idea that you thought was the most fantastic idea you’d ever had? You’d do it and make millions. But you procrastinated – only to find out that someone else had a similar idea and they had actually done it; making you feel like a total loser. I have had that happen so many times I’d be a gazillionaire by now if I’d only followed through with my ideas.
Have you had the same happen to you? Why? Because instead of applying speed you applied the seat –cushion-to-your-butt routine instead. You procrastinated, you held off, you were afraid, you didn’t move fast. Quite simply you didn’t move. Remember action requires that you move – forward preferably.
I know, like I said I have had that happen too many times. Perhaps it’s because I take too much after my Dad. He can think of every reason in the world why something can’t be done. My Dad has his Doctorate in education so he is no dummy either. When he puts his mind to something you pretty much know that he’s thought it through thoroughly. So if he lists reasons why something can’t be done you best believe him – right?
His reasons are always very logical and conventional. And he’s usually correct. But you know what? According to the gurus that’s what failure is all about. My Dad says that xyz will happen – so what. Get it going – move towards your creation, begin taking actions that will get you closer to your creation and let xyz happen, in the process you’ll learn ways to deal with xyz or how to get around xyz, or how to make xyz work for you, you may even find that xyz is an integral part of your creation. Regardless, stop letting xyz paralyze you with fear so that you don’t take any action at all.
Speed is where you will have success. Do it NOW. All great creations were created by doing not by wishing, not by thinking, not by waiting for better circumstances to happen upon the scene, and definitely not by procrastinating. Creators create!
How many of you use Microsoft products? How many of you have owned an imperfect Microsoft product? Bill Gates doesn’t wait till it’s perfect before he puts it out there on the market. He just gets it going and then puts it out there on the market and fixes it as he goes. If he had waited till it was perfect we probably would have never had Windows, and he probably wouldn’t be the richest man on earth either. Like it or not, Microsoft did not make Bill Gates so successful because of perfection. That’s an example to learn from.
Fear of failure or success is crippling. It has stopped many a would-be success dead in their tracks. Know this truth: Fear will never create! One of the most important elements of creation is faith. Faith and fear are eternal enemies which lie on opposite ends of the spectrum. They cannot coexist in the same space simultaneously. Fear never lets you get enough momentum to get your butt out of the recliner.
You can always find a reasonable excuse to remain motionless. Creation requires movement, great creations not only love speed, great creations require speed! And great creators create great creations!
 OK admit it, you have several ideas that you have been putting off for whatever reasons. Granted they may even be good reasons, but today’s assignment we are going to look convention in the face and ignore those reasons.Choose one of your ideas and do one big thing towards its accomplishment. That’s right, stop making excuses and start moving towards that creation.Do it NOW! Fast! Hurry! |
To your creations,
Michael Claridge
You Are Your Own Creation
First Things First
The first thing I want to do is define the word “Create.” Who better to do that then Webster himself.
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Merriam – Webster Dictionary |
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Main Entry: 1cre·ate |
To bring into existence.That’s it. Pretty simple really. The act of creation is to bring into existence that which was not there before. Let me explain. One day I was surfing the Internet and came across a personal web page of some internationally renowned speaker. I have searched for that same site since and cannot find it. I’m sorry that I don’t have more specific information to give you.On the site he had some downloadable snippets of some of his speeches. I downloaded and listened to many that day, but one caught my particular attention. It went something like this:(I paraphrase because I don’t have the actual)
“Have you ever seen a dog give birth to a cat? Have you ever seen an elephant give birth to a parakeet?
“God created the Heavens and the Earth and everything that in them are. And He created man in His own image. We are created in Gods image. God is a creator. We are created in His image. We are creators.”
That was pretty profound. We are all creators. Creators of what? Creators of our own lives. In fact what I am about to say I want you to never forget – YOU CANNOT NOT CREATE!
Stop and think about it. Everything you do is a creation. Everything!
With that in mind think about it. YOU CANNOT NOT CREATE! Everything you do is to bring into existence something that was not there before. Take it to its rudimentary form – the next breath you take did not exist until you created it. The thought that you are thinking did not exist until you brought it into existence. When you really think about it, everything that you do is to create.
That being the case then understand this next truth. You are the creator of your life. Believe it or not, you have been creating you from the first breath you drew as a baby. Every experience you have had since that first breath has been yours and only yours to do with as you wished. Nobody forced you to act, or react, or think the way you do. Indeed, you have had free will since that very first breath.
You are where you are, doing what you do, and thinking what you think, and being what you are because you created it that way. Whether you are happy or unhappy, rich or poor, fat or thin, successful or unsuccessful, you made it that way.
| Your assignment today is to do a simple exercise. Walk outside and yell at the top of your lungs, “Hello world, I’m (say your name) and I’m here to create the greatest day I’ve ever had!” Then go out and do it. At the end of the day get out a piece of paper, a journal, anything and write about what you created. How did it feel? What was different about it? Did you notice anything new? |
Literally, you are your own creator.
To your creations,
Michael Claridge
Creative Creators Create Creations Creatively!
Welcome to CreatorsCreate.com
This post is the first of what will be a major creation. Throughout the next weeks, months, and years I will explore the many facits of creation: what it is, how to do it, who can do it, and why. I will delve into many powerful principles that will teach you how to realize your own potential to be a creator.
There are many in this world who believe they are not in control of their lives. They believe that circumstances, that the environment, the government, or their surroundings are in control of their lives. Few understand that they have the power to create what they desire to create – these few, called “Creators” are what we will study and learn about on these pages. Creators indeed create creations.
There is power in creation. I will strive to demonstrate where that power comes from, how it is nurtured and how to increase it. I will show you how to harness it to your greatest usage. Once understood and harnessed correctly you can use it to create powerful creations.
What is it that creators create? Why that’s simple – Creations! It sounds trite, but I hope you will soon see that it is wonderful! Creators Create Creations!
In these articles we will learn that the creations that creators create are created from the substance which all great creations are created from. There may be creativity involved, but you will come to find that creativity is not all that necessary. You will soon see that it really is quite easy. Anybody can be a creator – in fact most everybody is.
Once again, welcome. I hope that these next years are full of many splendid creations.
Creative Creators Create Creative Creations Creatively! Now wasn’t that creative?
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Like I said I have done quite a bit of reading, I recently I read the book called Action! Nothing Happens Until Something Moves by Robert Ringer. And that’s just the point – nothing, absolutely nothing happens until something moves. If nothing, creation can only occur when something moves. That said, at the end of each of my posts, I’m going to try and give you something to do. It’s YOUR MOVE, so get moving. Start creating! |
To your Creations,
Michael Claridge
