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Creative Problem Solving

Creative Problem Solving or CPS is a great field to invest time to learn. What is “eating your lunch” right now? What stands in your way from moving from good in your field to truly great? What can not presently be done but would launch your adventure to insane new heights?

Answers and great fun await the searching soul brave enough to embrace the “Road Less Traveled.’ Might be a great place to start reading Robert Frost’ poem.

Another fantastic reading is Jack’s Notebook by Gregg Fraley

Share your CPS stories. Thanks.

Blogging

I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.

It covers:

  • The best blogging techniques.
  • How to get traffic to your blog.
  • How to turn your blog into money.

I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it’s still free.

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How long will it take?

Look back and see the answer. I have the ability to win, to bring abundance into my life. Focus on your why and the how (long) takes care of itself.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein ~ Creator of the theory of relativity

The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.

Thomas A. Edison ~ American Inventor

What have you done to make today great?

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Out the door with a mission

Had a great sharing at Boiler Room Coffee recently;

Seize the moment

Here are some quick pick-me ups to help you seize the moment as you go out the door with a mission.

To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities.

Grenville Kleiser (1868-1953) American Author

What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Poet & Essayist

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I am streaching to get there

“Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness–if you had little time left to live–you would waste precious little of it! Well, I’m telling you…you do have a terminal illness: It’s called birth. You don’t have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason–or you will never be at all.”

~ Dan Millman, 21st century philosopher
from Way of the Peaceful Warrior

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The Question Behind The Question®

The spirit of the QBQ! The Question Behind the Question is personal accountability:

  • No more victim thinking, procrastinating, or blaming.
  • I can only change me.
  • Take action.

You can choose the low road and act like most people or take the road less traveled, the QBQ road:

  1. Begin with “What” or “How,” (not “Why,” “When,” or “Who”).
  2. Contain an “I” (not “they,” “them,” “we,” or “you”).
  3. Focus on action.

Life is (relatively) short. You need to read QBQ! to help ensure you are on the right road.

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Easy for you to say

It really is when you are convinced and passionate. Convinced of the path you are traveling. Passionate about life.

When you are saying something daring others may exclaim “that’s easy for you to say!” It is easy because you know if you fail it is not the end. We can only go as far as we have been taught and teaching can (& should) take place continually.

What have you done to make today great?

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Gung Ho!


“The Buddhists say, when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”

Are you, fellow student ready? I (strongly) encourage you to add the book Gung Ho!to your library.

Enjoy this fun picture and then click the linkto order the book or run out and get it.

More on the HOW

“Believe and receive or doubt and do without” ~Brenda Baldwin~

Wise words from her mother for us all to live by.

Can I get a witness?

You, dear reader, are bound for greatness. What would you do if you knew you could not fail? Read this post by Steve Farber to help you on your way to greatness.

How do you see your life unfolding?

Just write

The answer that set me free.

How can I take it to a new level? Just write.

Want to find new answers? Just write.

Need to have fun? Just write.

How can I know what to do? Just write.

“Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.” ~ Abraham Maslow, 20th century humanistic psychologist

Ready, Fire, Aim

Action is such a key ingredient for success. Get in the fray and make something happen. There can be no substitute for doing. Vernon Howard said it wonderfully in A Treasury of Trueness;

“Stop looking for ways to do things and simply start doing them.”

Get it out the door and make the needed adjustments. What are you waiting for?

The HOW

I am a big proponent of the WHY. Your why, when it really burns in your heart will get you through so many challenges. Figure out the why and the how will be there. Guy Kawasaki has an interview with Scott Berkun, Author of “The Myths of Innovation” that you need to read. The interview provides wonderful insight into HOW.

My favorites are too numerous to post here. ;-}

Thinking cap required.

Inclination to action

“Stop looking for ways to do things and simply start doing them.”

Vernon Howard ~ A Treasury of Trueness

Really you do not have to change anything but your mind. A-C-T-I-O-N is where we long to be for fulfillment in our life and joy in our heart. Take a peak at a fun post by Tom Peters about tryin’ stuff.

The other choice is not near as fun as getting out there and living life to the fullest.

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