Don’t help them, but show them that they aren’t helpless.
Money may matter to those who get stressed, but you don’t need money to relieve stress.
Stay Positive & You Just Need Actions
Garth E. Beyer
Life Lesson
Why Experience Matters When Creating
Yesterday I wrote about how difficult it is to actually create something. The reason being is that to create something that is valuable and successful, you have to think the unimaginable.
One important factor to this way of thinking is that what you create needs to be something that someone, somewhere has no clue they want or need. There are only two ways this can be done.
1. Observe. Obviously the hardest since you are busy, on the go, and trying to be creative. I tend to agree with people like Daniel Pink that before we can be creative, we have to notice others’ creativity.
2. Experience. Jump in the ocean of opportunities life presents you. The more you experience, the more likely a creative idea will hit you. Zipup laces would never have been created by someone who never wore shoes.
Stay Positive & Start Swimming, Whichever Direction You Want, Doesn’t Matter
Garth E. Beyer
Enlighten Others
Something To Pin
I consider myself a fairly creative person. But then I go on Pinterest.
We can throw paint on a canvas, carve our names in a slab of wood, and fill up journals with ideas, rants, and realizations. While I consider these creations personally invaluable, they are far from being valued by others.
Respected, maybe. But not valued.
Creativity contains both the mindfulness and skill to combine two or more unimagined pieces. Remember, the melting crayon art? What happens when you cut a marker in half, pour the content into a nearly empty windex bottle, and spray onto the colored side of Tootsie pop wrappers? Just imagine what you can actually do with a slab of wood?
If you want something to pin, you’re going to have to strain your brain and go through the emotional labor it takes to create something, truly create something.
Creating something sounds easy. Give it a try, though, and you will see just how hard it is.
Stay Positive & Respect Is A Good Place To Start
Garth E. Beyer
Enlighten Others
A Decrease In Critics
Let me note real quick, there’s a heavy difference between a critic and a hyena. The critic has lived life to understand all aspects of a subject. The hyena just yelps at everything until the creator backs away.
Criticism used to be about showing that someone is wrong. Now, because everyone can be right, criticism is about guiding a person to become even more right – and to show others that they are right. This is tough work for the critic, extremely tough. The critic takes partial responsibility in making something work – so the critic sees it as this – if they don’t fully believe in the idea, they don’t criticize it.
In more simple terms. To critique means to discover a way to improve. Creators gather so much input before they launch products that it takes extreme talent to come up with a successful idea for improvement. Thus, there has been a serious decrease in those willing to critique any piece of work.
The reason to understand what a critic is and does is so you don’t confuse hyenas with critics. When creators do that, well, that’s when they get in trouble and the hyenas fill their stomachs.
Stay Positive & Keep Searching, There’s A Critic In The Group Of Hyenas
Garth E. Beyer
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Changing The Air
Want to watch the air in the room shift to something really positive? Experience this.
Ask someone to say three things they are grateful for.
Then ask another person. Then ask another person. And if you haven’t already, ask yourself.
Stay Positive & Breathe It In
Garth E. Beyer
Enlighten Others
How It Works
There is a little known benefit to watching how something works.
For most things, you can read blogs, watch YouTube videos, or flip on the television show How Stuff Works to see how exactly something works. If you’re a real adventurer, you might go to the location of “it” and see for yourself how it works.
The little known benefit of watching how things work is that it becomes ever more difficult to hate it, dispute it, or rant about it.
After seeing this video on how clutches work, I don’t find myself getting angry when I’m shifting my motorcycle and it jerks me forward or backward.
There’s a natural tendency to care more about what we know more about. All opinions change as more information is acquired.
Next time something frustrates you. Learn about it.
Stay Positive & Stress Ball Profits Are Now Seeing A Decrease
(how do they even work anyway…)
Garth E. Beyer
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Two Words To Never Believe
“no hurry”
Everyone wants affirmative and immediate feedback.
And for those who think haste makes waste, let me remind you that waste can be used as biofuel.
Stay Positive & Carry On
Garth E. Beyer
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