"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." - Richard Bach

"Open your mind, Luke." - Obi-Wan Kenobi

I saw a bumper sticker just yesterday which said, "The most common way people give up power is by believing they don't have any." The topic of creativity has not begun to be addressed here, except by one or two individuals who have said "they don't have any."

I was freed of limiting creativity as a quality unique to the arts when I was in, of all things, sales. It was pointed out that selling is inherently creative. At that point the job became more than just a place to go each day, but a challenge to discover new ways to approach customers. Taken broadly, it is impossible to escape creativity--unless you believe you don't have any, in which case you are deceiving yourself.

If you have composed and written a new song, of course you have demonstrated creativity. But: if you have contributed a thought here--you are creative. If you have ever changed a recipe--or simply followed one--you are creative. If you have taken a photo, figured out how to fix something, parented a child, done homework, varied the telling of a joke, read a book and had a new thought occur to you, or done anything the end result of which was a construct which did not exist before--you are creative. We are all inescapably creative.

Truly creative people embrace this in all areas of their lives. What will you do today to claim the power which exists within you?

R.

"My primary musical instrument is the personal computer."