5 Reasons to Make Your Words Sweet As Honey
April 24, 2009
Have you ever had one of those bad days when you felt irritable at everyone that crossed your path? Sure you have; we all have had those days. It is important to remember regardless of how much you might want to say something snappy, to keep your words as nice as possible. Keep these five points in mind the next time you feel like spouting your angry energy at others.
Here are five good reasons you should try to be nicer:
Reason #1) You are someone’s role model. Whether you realize it or not, there is always someone watching you. They are learning from your actions and conversations. They are taking note of how you live your life because they want to emulate it.
Reason #2) You are only in control of your own life. You do not have control over anything other than yourself. The situations that cause you frustration and irritation are all outside your command. However, you do have the final say on how you react to those situations.
Reason #3) You are leaving a legacy. Every footprint you make in this world is one that will stay behind forever after you are gone. Do you want your legacy to be a negative one, or positive?
Reason #4) You never know when your words will come back to haunt you. Parents understand their children are a mirror of them. Likewise, your environment is very often a reflection of your attitude and thought process. Be careful what you say, because if it is negative, you never know when it will return to bite you in the rear.
Reason #5) Life is too short for you to be ugly. Why not just be nice? Even if you don’t feel like it, being nice will almost always diffuse any offensive situation you might encounter.
Like it or not, being nice pays off. If you don’t agree, try it the next time you feel your anger growing. See if altering your attitude and saying something nicer changes things for you.
Believe In Yourself
April 23, 2009
Feeling like you are lower than dirt is terrible. Yet, I would say there are many of you reading this article right now who feels that way. Your self esteem has plummeted and you feel hopeless. Maybe you have even reached a point where you don’t believe anymore that you are even worthy of feeling good about yourself again. You couldn’t be more wrong.
They broke the mold when they made you.
The most important reason why you need to believe in yourself is because you are special. There is nobody in this world quite like you. Nobody else has your eyes, your smile, your nose, or even your quirky habits. While there may be some things you want to change about yourself, at the very core, you are an amazing, unique individual.
This world needs you.
You contribute to your society. Your thoughts and actions form and shape the world around you. Everything you do is important and necessary to this world. Without you, your community, church, and country just wouldn’t be the same. Regardless of how small or large the contribution you make, you are needed to help guide future generations. You have the potential to aid in teaching and leading many along the way.
If you don’t, who will?
Let’s face it. No matter how much support and encouragement you might have, you make the final choice whether or not to believe and receive such accolades. It is totally up to you to decide to stand up and become active in your own life, or to sit idly by while every day passes you. If you don’t believe in yourself, who will? When you can embrace yourself as you are and begin to believe in who you are, others will take notice and begin believing in you, too.
You aren’t a nobody.
Despite how low you might feel right now, you have to keep reminding yourself that you are somebody. You are special. You were placed on this Earth for a purpose. Discovering that purpose might lead to a few speed bumps along the way, but nobody said life would ever be easy. So pump up your faith and start believing in yourself today. Take charge of your thoughts and emotions. Live your life like there’s no tomorrow. Give yourself-and others-a reason to believe in you.
5 Effective Ways to Avoid Creative Block
April 13, 2009
By Dan Goodwin
I’m sure you know all too well how it feels to be creatively blocked, wondering where the next spark of inspiration or the next idea is going to come from, when you feel all washed up with nothing forthcoming.
So here are 5 effective ways to help you avoid creative block:
1. Create every day. How often do you create? A couple of times a month? A few times a week. Or every day? When it comes to keeping yourself as creative as possible, and your creative fitness levels high, then every day is the only way. Not creating for weeks then expecting to be able to sit down and flow freely is like asking a marathon runner not to even so much as look at their running shoes for weeks, then suddenly go out and run a marathon at a moment’s notice! They might start, but soon they’ll tire, get despondent, and probably injure themselves in a way that means it’ll be even longer until the next time they come to run again. 15 minutes a day, at the same time every day. It will transform your creativity, and banish creative block.
2. Expose yourself to new inspiration. There are times when we create that we need a great degree of isolation, so we can focus on just creating, without distraction or interruption. But if we spend ALL of our time in a small dark room locked away from the world we’ll soon dry up on inspiration, and feel blocked. If you ate exactly the same meal for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day for a month, you wouldn’t feel too excited about that meal by the end of it! Same with creativity. Go out to different places, see new things and a variety of people. The more diverse your stimulation, the more ideas and inspiration you’ll have. And so, you greatly lessen the chance of getting blocked creatively.
3. Your creative space. You can be overflowing with ideas and inspiration, and bursting to create, but if you then head to your creative tools and find complete disorder and clutter, you’re not going to be able to create anything. Setting aside a specific space to create in, and just as importantly, making sure everything you need to create is there and close to hand, is an often neglected part of staying in creative flow. What’s your creative space like right now? Time spent organizing in a way that works for you will save major frustration and creative clock in the long term. Set aside specific time, declutter and prepare yourself a creative space you can go and dive headlong into creating in, in an instant.
4. Start small and build. A classic way to trip up your creativity is to overwhelm yourself with either too many creative projects at once, or projects that are huge, complex, and so daunting that you give virtually before you’ve begun. Each stage of the creative process is important, but if you always abandon projects half way through, you’re not getting this experience. The answer is to start small and build momentum and confidence. You can then go through every stage from initial idea to sharing your creative project with the world, then gradually take on larger more involved projects.
5. Enjoy your creativity. One of the biggest traps we can get caught in that blocks creativity is forgetting to enjoy our creativity, what we create, and the way we create it. Instead we focus only on volume and product, treating ourselves like some kind of industrial creative factory that’s simply churning out virtually identical pieces of art over and over again. Get back to basics, and remember what you enjoy most about creating. When’s the last time you had fun creating? When did you last completely lose track of time immersed in creating? Notice what the key factors where, and re-introduce them. Once you start enjoying your creativity more, it’ll flow far more easily, and creative block will be a stranger.
Which of these tips will you start using today to help you avoid the clutches of creative block?
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