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The more context you provide to another, the faster they will absorb new content. And, during periods of rapid change, additional context is needed to reassure, anchor and condition so that this change is embraced vs feared. This List could also be called “Top 10 Ways to Get People to Make Changes.”
1. Personalize your point.
Tell them why what you’re saying is important to
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Photo by Enrique DansFor those who have annoyances, it is easy to become so blind to life’s blessings that we focus only on the annoying aspects of our lives. It’s not a bad idea, when life’s minor problems start to get us down, to look at the mirror image. How would this problem appear to someone who has no possibility of experiencing such an “annoyance?” In many cases, they would be overjoyed to have our “problems.”
1. Scrimping to pay the mortgage… to a homeless family.
2. The pains of growing old… to a woman who knows she will die before her children become teenagers.
3. Not having enough time to do everything… to the person who has just been laid off.
4. Being bored because there’s nothing to do… to the two-jobs-and-a-family single parent.
5. Dealing with family arguments about what to eat, or where to eat… to those who are starving.
6. Having to cope with difficult children… to childless would-be parents.
7. Driving a rusty old car… to the person who walks miles to get to work.
8. Having to walk to work… to a person who cannot walk.
9. Having no air-conditioning… to people with no electricity to turn the blades of a fan.
10. The irritation of family disagreements… to those who have no family.
Diana Gardner Robinson, PhD, has been coaching for more than twelve years and has built a reputation for integrity, insight and an intuitive grasp of client concerns. She specializes in coaching clients to transform their dreams into reality, sometimes aided by focusing on self-confidence, authenticity, balance, written and spoken communication, and/or creativity. Creativity and motivation were the topics of Diana’s dissertation when obtaining her doctorate in Social Psychology. She was recognized by the International Coach Federation as a Professional Certified Coach in 2005. She is qualified as a Confidence Coaching Graduate, a Certified Guerrilla Marketing Coach, and a Certified World Class Speaking Coach. Diana may be reached at Diana
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Photo by Photos8.comCreativity is generally regarded as desirable, and something to be enhanced. With this view in mind, below are some steps to help the development of creativity. However, although creativity is often thought of as relating to the creative and performing arts, remember that can take many forms. The criminal can turn creativity to illegal use as easily as the artist puts brush to canvas. Do not assume, therefore, that creativity is good in and of itself. Like most forms of power, it can be used for good or for harm.
1. Insist on giving yourself daydreaming time.
Schedule it if necessary. During that time allow no “should” or “musts” to intrude. Give your mind this time to float freely, untethered to tasks. Do not think of what you will be doing when this time is over. Allow yourself to gaze out of the window, stare at the clouds, daydream.
2. Be curious.
Ask why? How? How come? Don’t accept easy answers if they don’t make sense to you.
3. Ignore tradition.
Just because something has always been done that way, or used for that purpose, doesn’t mean things can’t change.
4. Play a game with yourself–or with others–in trying to find the most uses other than the obvious ones for every-day items like paperclips, bricks, anything that comes to mind.
Like most of these points, this will stretch and develop your creativity muscles.
5. Ask “What if?”
Pick one aspect of an ordinary situation and imagine what would change if that one aspect were different. Follow this through in all its implications.
6. Read science fiction.
Allow yourself to become immersed in the worlds it depicts. Contemplate impossible things and parallel universes. The Queen of Hearts advised Alice to believe one impossible thing every day before breakfast. It was good advice.
7. Accept your initial ideas without judgment.
Give them time to grow and develop before you test them. Butterflies that have just emerged from the chrysalis have wet, crumpled wings. Give them time to develop before you decide if they can fly. The reason brainstorming has become such a standby when group creativity is involved is that all criticism is put on hold during the initial idea-generating phase. Allow yourself the same freedom.
8. Take risks.
It’s okay to be wrong. By definition, to be creative you must consider new, and therefore untested, ideas. Einstein said that he could have ninety-nine ideas that were wrong before he got the one that was right.
9. Enjoy the PROCESS of creation.
Do not focus on the result. The secret and ecstasy of creating is being in the flow, of losing yourself in the process. If you constantly break the flow to check to how the final result will look to others, to ask yourself, “Will it sell?” “Will it win?” you will subvert the process and possibly damage your creation.
10. Go ahead and DO IT!
Don’t wait for the perfect moment, it won’t arrive. Painters paint, scrape the paint off and paint again. Writers write and delete. They don’t wait until they can do it perfectly before they start. You do not need twelve sharpened pencils and perfect silence before you put pen to paper. Remember that Shakespeare wrote in an age when the whole family sat at the same table and shared the same oil lamp. It is unlikely that he had a separate study or could wait until the family had gone to bed in order to write. You CAN follow your muse!
Diana Gardner Robinson, PhD, has been coaching for more than twelve years and has built a reputation for integrity, insight and an intuitive grasp of client concerns. She specializes in coaching clients to transform their dreams into reality, sometimes aided by focusing on self-confidence, authenticity, balance, written and spoken communication, and/or creativity. Creativity and motivation were the topics of Diana’s dissertation when obtaining her doctorate in Social Psychology. She was recognized by the International Coach Federation as a Professional Certified Coach in 2005. She is qualified as a Confidence Coaching Graduate, a Certified Guerrilla Marketing Coach, and a Certified World Class Speaking Coach. Diana may be reached at Diana
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Get exclusive exposure of your own list plus a direct link to your desired landing page. Read more...The Owl may be nature’s wisest animal but being labeled as such, with every little creature of the animal kingdom looking to the tree lines for answers, is sometimes more than some can bare. Here are ten owls who seemingly have taken to the bottle in efforts to temper their all-knowing minds.
Just Five More Minutes…please!?
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Get exclusive exposure of your own list plus a direct link to your desired landing page. Read more...Red nose, face painted white, a crazy colored Tuck and a twisted grimace. An unpredictable, asocial borderline individual who squirts water in your face and makes fun at the expense of others. Pop culture is full of clowns creating all kinds of anxiety among grown-ups as well as children.
When it’s said that as much as one in seven nurtures a phobia of clowns, here’s list of ten scary clowns. To end things off here’s words Johnny Depp himself used in an interview with The San Francisco Chronicle when explaining his own fear of clowns:
Something about the painted face, the fake smile, There always seemed to be a darkness lurking just under the surface, a potential for real evil.
Pennywise (It)That Stephen is the king of horror has never been more obvious than after reading his 1986 novel “It”. When this masterpiece later went on the become a TV miniseries in 1990, director Tommy Lee Wallace casted british actor Tim Curry to play the child slaughtering clown Pennywise. An odd choice on paper perhaps, but Curry successfully managed to scar a whole generation of kids, including myself. Pennywise is definitely the world’s scariest clown.
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Get exclusive exposure of your own list plus a direct link to your desired landing page. Read more...The 62nd Annual Emmy awards take place on August 29th, and with competition as fierce as ever for the coveted winner’s trophy; the likes of 30 Rock, Modern Family and Glee are expected to sweep the awards in the comedy categories this year.
There may be a few surprises in store, but don’t be alarmed to see the stars of the above mentioned walking away with their hands full on August 29th. Here is our break down of the anticipated winners in the comedy categories this year:
30 Rock – Comedy Series30 Rock is expected to take this one, having won it for the last 3 years running. Despite lower viewer ratings this year, 30 Rock has picked up 22 nominations in total, so get your money on Tina Fey & Alec Baldwin getting their hands on the trophy again.
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Get exclusive exposure of your own list plus a direct link to your desired landing page. Read more...Swimming is an excellent way to pass time on a hot summer’s day on vacation. But be careful where you decide to cool off. Here are the ten deadliest vacating spots where swimming is ill-advised, as listed by AOL Travel News.
1. Queensland, AustralienLouring in the waters outside Queensland, are a whole army of deadly aquatic animals. There you’ll find blue-ringed octopus, cone shells, box jellyfish, scorpion fish and the small but highly venomous irukandji jellyfish. Of all these unpleasant sea creatures the box jellyfish ranks as the dealiest, killing anywhere between 100 to 200 people every year. In the Box jellyfish family, the Chironex fleckeri, Carukia barnesi and Malo kingi are considered among the most venomous creates in the world. It can grow up to ten foot long and is the sole cause for many beaches’ closing every year.
Do not swim during jellyfish alert and make sure to always wear a full body swim suite especially made to protect against jellyfish stings (stinger-suite). Or, just don’t swim.
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