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Creativity: Life’s Most Enduring Reward…

Walk into any classroom or board room and at some point the word creativity fills the air. Read any newspaper or magazine, and somewhere buried among the typeset the word creativity holds court.

Since the beginning of humankind, creativity is the birthmark of each civilization and culture. With the passing of each civilization and culture (and they all pass, make no mistake), it’s the remnants that act as sign posts for the creative minds that once endowed those bastions and eras of human endeavor. Be it the Egyptian pyramids, the Great Wall of China, the written works of Greek philosophers, the aqueducts of ancient Rome, or the classical music of Beethoven, Bach and Mozart; life’s most enduring rewards have always been, and will always be, those bred of creativity.

Our modern age is no different. The creativity during the last hundred years is astounding. From a man on the moon, to soccer matches beamed around the globe (for World Cup fans out there), to invention of the Internet and everything that stems from it, we live in an epoch of unparalleled creativity.

We are blessed to ride this wave of creativity, while enjoying the fruits it bears. But it begs the question: what can we do to command creativity into our own lives?

We gaze with wonder upon the creativity of others, and think that these people possess innate, God-given talents to create the things they create. Either that, or luck has bestowed them with the trappings of genius.

What we don’t see, or neglect to see, is the dedication and work behind the scenes. The engineer labors into the night drafting that latest design; the musician jams into the early morning to discover that elusive melody; the writer plucks at a keyboard with thoughts of a bestseller. While others coast through life, these people make creativity their motto, and with determination and self-discipline (see Self-Discipline: The Cornerstone of Meaningful Action…) doggedly seek their goals.

Creativity doesn’t arise from itself, but is the product of action, for only through trial and error, do the seeds of creativity sprout. Admittedly, not all will become the next Mark Twain, Henry Ford, Albert Einstein or Steve Jobs, but focus several hours on a topic and “Eureka!” has a strange way of appearing.

Famed Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) once said, “If you hear a voice within you say, ‘you cannot paint’, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

Just the same, let’s silence our voice of doubt, and trumpet our voice of creativity. Let’s stop putting off, and start creating. The clock waits for no one, and creativity is life’s most enduring reward. What a pity to let it pass us by…

For more, check out The C.A.T. Principle: Change, Action, Trust – Words to Live By, a Global Ebook Awards GOLD Winner for Best Self-Help Non-Fiction Ebook of 2014, available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. See the latest Amazon reviews here. Now revised and expanded, and once again nominated for the Best Self-Help Non-Fiction Ebook of the 2015 Global Ebook Awards!

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A 2014 Global Ebook Awards GOLD Winner for Best Non-fiction Self-help Ebook.

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