Goal setting for teens can be cool if it encompasses ways for them to contribute, fosters their growing independence and builds self-esteem - in a nonjudgmental and encouraging manner. Anyway, why should adults have all the fun with personal development!
This article describes how these characteristics can be positive reinforcers for the teen who is interested in, but as yet unsure of, committing to goal setting as a process.
No matter what your personality or profession, creativity plays a very important part in every person’s financial and personal life.
Even if you are not someone like an artist or a musician, it is still vital to your success that you have a constant stream of creative energy.
As an example, let’s say that you are just a run-of-the-mill business man. At first glance, you would think that this profession would be analytical and dull, and therefore would not require too much creativity in order to be successful.
If you visited the North Pole, you could languish in the glorious sunshine, sunbathe on the sandy beaches and admire all the beautiful flowers and plant life…
Oh no, hang on, wrong continent. What you’d actually find at the North Pole is nothing but huge drifting masses of snow covered ice. With fierce blizzards and howling winds much of the time.
So why are there no endless beaches, blossoming flowers and opportunities to top up your suntan here?
Quite simply it’s completely the wrong environment.
More importantly though, what does any of this have to do with helping you be more creative?
Intuitively the link between decluttering and creativity makes sense doesn’t it? Creativity thrives in the land of new ideas and open thinking, while clutter tends to be characterised by clinging on to old ideas, attitudes, habits and possessions. In order to free yourself up to be fabulously creative, you often need to be prepared to let go of the clutter first. Inspiration is unlikely to emerge unless you’ve created a space for it.
Thomas Edison, “Creativity is 99% perspiration and one percent inspiration.” You notice there is a reference to actual work in there. A lot of people have a mistaken idea of what creativity is. People assume an artist is creative because they are an artist and because of the subject area that they are interested in, and that’s not true! People view artists as creative because they are in the habit of being creative, but it’s not their subject area that makes them creative. The shift that people need to make is that it’s not what you think, it’s how you think.
How long have you been frustrated with your level of creativity?
Maybe you’ve virtually written off your creative life as a thing of the past, something you now only look back on with the fondness and nostalgia of a child remembering their favourite TV shows when they were growing up?
Well it doesn’t have to be this way… Whatever you may think, you haven’t forgotten how to be creative.
Maybe you’re out of practice a little, but that’s all. We’re all born creative and we’ll all die just as capable of being creative. It’s whether we put those creative talents to use that’s the crucial part in between.
Do you have a great idea to can raise the bottom line of the company you work for? Such an idea could be to raise productivity, lower the cost of production or a clever idea to raise staff morale. In the past, you may have a frustrating experience when your idea was rejected or ignored. The reason could be that nobody told you “the secret“. When a great idea pops into our head, the next step is to sell your idea so that others will buy into it. Here are seven important steps that you can take in that process;