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Casual Articles - The Marvelous World of Metaphors
Some interesting survey statistics have shown how many people are unhappy at work. This has prompted me to return to an old theme. Under the title mid-life crisis the statistics revealed that of those over age 40 who were surveyed the fear of failure was what kept them unhappy.25% said they would not move from their present job for fear of failure. Yet in the survey 66% said they were miserable in their work while 52% said they would sacrifice higher earnings for a job that made them feel better about themselves.The UK national average of those dissatisfied by their job was 64%. Before I established my consultancy at age 50 I had experienced many employment difficulties including being 'downsized' twice and we all have experience of having to work with/for people we do not like or respect.To me these feelings were what caused me to resolve to not be unhappy at work any longer and to do something about it. We can only speak as we find and with some financial planning to be sure my children were funded through college the move to having my own service business was the best thing that could have happened.It's not for everyone but if you are in the group that the survey reveals are so unhappy at work don't let the fear of failure stop you from making a positive move. We all meet people who when they have changed job, made a career change or set up in business wish they had done it sooner.When you go independent you are no longer unhappy at work.The
You can choose to change.
You can choose to grow.
You can choose to be your own person.
You can choose love.
You can choose to be creative.
You can choose all of your own choices.
"You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes, Connie,
without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter
dregs are."
Agnes Sligh Turnbull, The Rolling Year
Have you ever thought of all of the bad memories, experiences and episodes in your life that you may be stirring “The bitter dregs” each day that detract from your potential creativity and innovation?
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Humor, Wit
"A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps
as we walk the tight rope of life."
Anon
Humor is a learned experience. Learning to laugh can be taught to anyone. It only takes a change of your perception. Humor is one of the chief characteristics, as related by some authorities, stimulating our creativity and innovation. Humor is also great for your health. It not only stimulates your immune system but it also energizes our brain cells with those funny little chemicals that make life more interesting.
“Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it
about like marmalade.”
Noel Coward
“Humor is really laughing off a hurt. Grinning at misery.”
Bill
Mauldin
“Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.”
Elsa
Maxwell
Awareness
’Voynitsky: We used to think of you as almost superhuman,
but now the scales have fallen off my eyes and I see you as
you are.?
Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya
Think of yourself with whatever blinders you have covering your eyes? Each of us perceives everything differently. Of course, this difference in our perception is what makes us so unique.
But depending on our background and images planted by sources even unknown, we may have scales, like some animals, over our eyes. Removing these scales over our eyes creates our awareness to the awakened mind.
“On the surface, life is much the same as before…But it is
through-the-looking glass world.”
Jeffrey Schmalz,
5 Tips to Ensure You are Well Received by Your New Employer.Although you're throwing off the cap and gown and heading off to a corporate environment it doesn't mean you will no longer have to impress the ‘instructor' – so to speak. Now it's your boss you'll need to impress…wait a minute, not just the boss, but also a whole plethora of people in your new company.Pretty soon you'll be dreaming about the days you used to crawl out of the sack, throw on a sack and slip in to class just as things were starting to roll. As long as you did the reading, tossed in some good essays and passed the exams you were fine.So, now that you're not a student anymore, what's next?1st – show up! Yes, I mean show up for your job search. Maybe you were lucky enough to land a job while still in college, but if not this is the time that you need to put your research skills to the road. Get involved, highly involved in all things job related. Make sure you've got a well-written, up to date (fast reading layout) resume. If you're not sure about your resume have it reviewed by a professional resume writer. It is worth it. Pick several organizations to join and begin networking. Go to their meetings, volunteer to contribute your time and energy – meet people. These connections are valuable and may be the inroad to your new job.2nd – make a positive impression! I know you won't go to your interview dressed like you would for a college class, or even show up for your j
A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase
that means one thing is used to describe an object or ideas
to which it is not literally applicable -- a ship is said to plow the sea.
Denise Shekerjian
Webster defines Metaphor:
The application of a word or phrase to an object or concept, which it does not literally denote: in order to suggest comparison with another object or concept, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”
A figure of speech founded on resemblance, by which a word is transferred from an object to which it properly belongs to another in such a manner that a comparison is implied though not formally expressed, thus, “that man is a fox” is a metaphor; but “that man is like a fox,” is a simile or comparison.
Whenever we explain or communicate a concept by likening
it to something else, we are using a metaphor.
Tony Robbins,
Awaken the Giant Within.
Don’t let bad metaphors be a part of anyone’s master plan. Especially yours! Change your metaphors to a process of renewed awakening.
All of us and most businesses when advertising use Metaphors.
“Get right to the top and reach out!” Picture a beautiful
woman mountain climber, reaching out with outstretched
arms on the top of a snow-capped mountaintop.
webseller.net
Metaphors are common groups of words, which contribute a punch to a meaning by association.
There are different ways of defining metaphors. For instance dictionaries explain it as a word or a phrase to illustrate a real thing or action in its relationship to something else.
In our capacity to illustrate the importance of metaphors in creativity we are going to use them in association as related to the qualities which are attributed to creative people. According to most authorities creative people have the following characteristics. But don’t we all have them? We hope to share ways in which you can use them to initiate your interpretation in the transformation of your own life.
· Innovative – Ideas -- Change
· Originality
· Diversity -- Versatility -- flexibility – resilience
· Humorous
· Aware,--Focused--Committed
So let's go and see how we can apply some of these metaphors to each of these characteristics as applied to creativity. It is interesting how metaphors can stimulate thinking into so many different avenues by association. Applying your own interpretations to metaphors can lead to a remarkable world of similarities in your own thinking and association to incredible dimensions.
We are all familiar with the everyday usage of popular metaphors such as:
“Do you see?” “When you can see through the Hype!” “I’m bursting at the seam!” “The eyes of the customer.” Am I on a Wild Goose Chase?” The list is endless.
Let's start our journey into the exhilarating "constellations of creativity."
Ideas, Innovation, Change. Freshness.
"No idea is more than an imaginary potency, a mushroom
cloud (destroying nothing, making nothing) rising from
blinding consciousness."
Saul Bellow, The Bellarosa
Connection.
Think of what Saul means by imaginary potency? Doesn't our imagination rule everything? You can interpret this in many ways but one can imagine a mushroom in our minds, stimulating our thinking into an expansive mushroom of thought. For instance, another perception of mushrooming may be illustrated by the enormous mushroom effect of the atomic bomb rising into creative explosive productive ideas. Aside from the devastating effect of the atomic bomb visualize only beneficial ideas for mankind, instead of destruction. What is your interpretation?
"In the mind-world ideas are the indestructible elements
which form the jeweled constellations of the interior life."
Henry Miller "The creative life"
Can you picture one idea leading to a constellation, of multiple ideas to hold sky full of them? One idea of building on the other leading into "Who knows what?" Notice even another metaphor "Who knows what?" Is used to explain another thought!
"Here,/in the rule of my life/the objects keep changing." Anne Sexton, "The room of my life"
One of the main characteristics of creative and innovative people is their ability for flexibility and change. In our world that is dramatically changing so rapidly isn't it exciting that we can be a part of it? We are living in one of the most exhilarating eras for creative changes in all aspects of our lives. Thankfully most of them are good. Think of ways in which you can become more flexible, resilient and adaptable? Is the room in your life opening doors and windows to let your inner self out?
"Luck never gives, it only lends."
Anon, Swedish proverb
What are you doing to stimulate the luck in your life? Are you ready for success? Or are you afraid of success? Many times we don't think about the actual fear some people have of success. Think hard about it!
"All owned the affairs of men hang by slender thread."
Ovid
"El Ponto"
One can relate this metaphor with simple events, changes, and incidents and just about anything that can make the slightest change in our lives to greatness or despair. Thinking of the slender thread can remind one of the metaphor, “The Sword of Domacles" when his King, in order to remind Domacles how precarious his position in life was at the Palace. At a banquet in honor of Domacles, the King placed a sword directly over Domacles head, hanging by a few horsehairs. The implication, “Just a reminder of who is really the boss!” Couldn't anyone of our simple deeds of kindness be that simple strand of hair leading to the turning point in our lives?
Originality
"They sun themselves in the great man's light, and feel it to
be their own element."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, speech "The American scholar,"
Harvard college, Aug. 31, 1837. (They as the masses and
the herd)
Isn’t it interesting how Emerson conveys the thought that most people in this world will bask in the accomplishments of all those marvelous creative and innovative risk takers? It’s a wonderful experience instead of "following the leader, to being the leader." A good feeling is when you are the contributing mentor and "the masses and the herd" bask in your contributing greatness to their dignity and welfare? What's wrong with you being their best coach?
"And this I swear by blackest brook of hell,/I am no pick-purse
of another's wit."
Sir Philip Sydney, "Sonnet 74"Astrophel & Stella.
It appears somebody accused him of pilfering an idea as many other writers, artists, coaches and just about everybody else has borrowed from somebody else. When Dad belonged to the National Speakers Association, he conveyed to us a common statement. "When the speaker borrows a quote or idea from one speaker, that's stealing but when he borrows from a whole group of speakers, that's research!"
We should be grateful that we can contribute to somebody else's creativity by the letting them copy from us?
==============================================
Diversity
"Every human being is a colony."
Pablo Picaso's Epigraph
The uniqueness of metaphors is the meaning it has only to you and what perceptions it conjures in your imagination!
Jog your memory as to what the colony of your life is? What makes up the different colonies within your life that stimulates the different worlds of your imagination. It could be family, associations, work, hobby or just about anything that is empowering and having that phenomenal, enrapturing and energizing effect in your life?
What does this overused metaphor still mean to you? "Variety's the spice of life, that gives it all its flavor." William Cowper, "The Timepiece" What type of variety do you have continuously adding to wonderment and resourcefulness?
==============================================
Flexibility
"The rulers (in Japan) our politicians and large businesses.
The ruled our everyone else, the "Grass people," so apathy
termed because they bow in whatever direction the wind
blows."
Reiki Hatsumi
Are you one of the "Grass people?" Are you one of the media junkies who let’s the newspapers, TV news, Internet- ions, headlines and all the other distractions vying for your mind, direct you to the way their wind blows? Think of the enormous possibility of flexibility you can choose to have?
"Of course you don't change a persons nature you retouch it."
Andre', "Home Port Maurois"
Isn’t it nice that you can still make choices?
You can choose to change.
You can choose to grow.
You can choose to be your own person.
You can choose love.
You can choose to be creative.
You can choose all of your own choices.
"You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes, Connie,
without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter
dregs are."
Agnes Sligh Turnbull, The Rolling Year
Have you ever thought of all of the bad memories, experiences and episodes in your life that you may be stirring “The bitter dregs” each day that detract from your potential creativity and innovation?
==============================================
Humor, Wit
"A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps
as we walk the tight rope of life."
Anon
Humor is a learned experience. Learning to laugh can be taught to anyone. It only takes a change of your perception. Humor is one of the chief characteristics, as related by some authorities, stimulating our creativity and innovation. Humor is also great for your health. It not only stimulates your immune system but it also energizes our brain cells with those funny little chemicals that make life more interesting.
“Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it
about like marmalade.”
Noel Coward
“Humor is really laughing off a hurt. Grinning at misery.”
Bill
Mauldin
“Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.”
Elsa
Maxwell
Awareness
’Voynitsky: We used to think of you as almost superhuman,
but now the scales have fallen off my eyes and I see you as
you are.?
Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya
Think of yourself with whatever blinders you have covering your eyes? Each of us perceives everything differently. Of course, this difference in our perception is what makes us so unique.
But depending on our background and images planted by sources even unknown, we may have scales, like some animals, over our eyes. Removing these scales over our eyes creates our awareness to the awakened mind.
“On the surface, life is much the same as before…But it is
through-the-looking glass world.”
Jeffrey Schmalz,
The primary differences between a Post Office box (PO Box) and a Private Mailbox are:* The PO Box is only accessible when the Post Office is open, and perhaps an hour before and/or after normal Post Office hours. The Private Mailbox is generally accessible 24 hours a day - you get a key to the front door to come and go as you please (in most cases)!* The PO Box cannot accept any parcels on your behalf. If you receive an overnight letter via UPS, the Post Office cannot sign on your behalf and hold the letter for you; therefore, most common carriers will not accept for shipment any packages addressed to PO Boxes. The UPS Store can act as your Commercial Mail Receiving Agent and can accept parcels on your behalf. The staff will sign for your parcel(s) and then notify you that the parcel is available for pickup. They will usually ask that you sign a log to indicated receipt of the parcel from the store.* A PO Box address is just that - a PO Box. When you rent a Private Mailbox, you get a real street address. You can actually operate a business right out of the store because you have a real street address.There are other benefits to renting a private mailbox at a The UPS Store location, such as mail forwarding, mail holding, and acceptance of any size parcels. So, visit your local The UPS Store and see how a private mailbox rental might work for you!
· Diversity -- Versatility -- flexibility – resilience
· Humorous
· Aware,--Focused--Committed
So let's go and see how we can apply some of these metaphors to each of these characteristics as applied to creativity. It is interesting how metaphors can stimulate thinking into so many different avenues by association. Applying your own interpretations to metaphors can lead to a remarkable world of similarities in your own thinking and association to incredible dimensions.
We are all familiar with the everyday usage of popular metaphors such as:
“Do you see?” “When you can see through the Hype!” “I’m bursting at the seam!” “The eyes of the customer.” Am I on a Wild Goose Chase?” The list is endless.
Let's start our journey into the exhilarating "constellations of creativity."
Ideas, Innovation, Change. Freshness.
"No idea is more than an imaginary potency, a mushroom
cloud (destroying nothing, making nothing) rising from
blinding consciousness."
Saul Bellow, The Bellarosa
Connection.
Think of what Saul means by imaginary potency? Doesn't our imagination rule everything? You can interpret this in many ways but one can imagine a mushroom in our minds, stimulating our thinking into an expansive mushroom of thought. For instance, another perception of mushrooming may be illustrated by the enormous mushroom effect of the atomic bomb rising into creative explosive productive ideas. Aside from the devastating effect of the atomic bomb visualize only beneficial ideas for mankind, instead of destruction. What is your interpretation?
"In the mind-world ideas are the indestructible elements
which form the jeweled constellations of the interior life."
Henry Miller "The creative life"
Can you picture one idea leading to a constellation, of multiple ideas to hold sky full of them? One idea of building on the other leading into "Who knows what?" Notice even another metaphor "Who knows what?" Is used to explain another thought!
"Here,/in the rule of my life/the objects keep changing." Anne Sexton, "The room of my life"
One of the main characteristics of creative and innovative people is their ability for flexibility and change. In our world that is dramatically changing so rapidly isn't it exciting that we can be a part of it? We are living in one of the most exhilarating eras for creative changes in all aspects of our lives. Thankfully most of them are good. Think of ways in which you can become more flexible, resilient and adaptable? Is the room in your life opening doors and windows to let your inner self out?
"Luck never gives, it only lends."
Anon, Swedish proverb
What are you doing to stimulate the luck in your life? Are you ready for success? Or are you afraid of success? Many times we don't think about the actual fear some people have of success. Think hard about it!
"All owned the affairs of men hang by slender thread."
Ovid
"El Ponto"
One can relate this metaphor with simple events, changes, and incidents and just about anything that can make the slightest change in our lives to greatness or despair. Thinking of the slender thread can remind one of the metaphor, “The Sword of Domacles" when his King, in order to remind Domacles how precarious his position in life was at the Palace. At a banquet in honor of Domacles, the King placed a sword directly over Domacles head, hanging by a few horsehairs. The implication, “Just a reminder of who is really the boss!” Couldn't anyone of our simple deeds of kindness be that simple strand of hair leading to the turning point in our lives?
Originality
"They sun themselves in the great man's light, and feel it to
be their own element."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, speech "The American scholar,"
Harvard college, Aug. 31, 1837. (They as the masses and
the herd)
Isn’t it interesting how Emerson conveys the thought that most people in this world will bask in the accomplishments of all those marvelous creative and innovative risk takers? It’s a wonderful experience instead of "following the leader, to being the leader." A good feeling is when you are the contributing mentor and "the masses and the herd" bask in your contributing greatness to their dignity and welfare? What's wrong with you being their best coach?
"And this I swear by blackest brook of hell,/I am no pick-purse
of another's wit."
Sir Philip Sydney, "Sonnet 74"Astrophel & Stella.
It appears somebody accused him of pilfering an idea as many other writers, artists, coaches and just about everybody else has borrowed from somebody else. When Dad belonged to the National Speakers Association, he conveyed to us a common statement. "When the speaker borrows a quote or idea from one speaker, that's stealing but when he borrows from a whole group of speakers, that's research!"
We should be grateful that we can contribute to somebody else's creativity by the letting them copy from us?
==============================================
Diversity
"Every human being is a colony."
Pablo Picaso's Epigraph
The uniqueness of metaphors is the meaning it has only to you and what perceptions it conjures in your imagination!
Jog your memory as to what the colony of your life is? What makes up the different colonies within your life that stimulates the different worlds of your imagination. It could be family, associations, work, hobby or just about anything that is empowering and having that phenomenal, enrapturing and energizing effect in your life?
What does this overused metaphor still mean to you? "Variety's the spice of life, that gives it all its flavor." William Cowper, "The Timepiece" What type of variety do you have continuously adding to wonderment and resourcefulness?
==============================================
Flexibility
"The rulers (in Japan) our politicians and large businesses.
The ruled our everyone else, the "Grass people," so apathy
termed because they bow in whatever direction the wind
blows."
Reiki Hatsumi
Are you one of the "Grass people?" Are you one of the media junkies who let’s the newspapers, TV news, Internet- ions, headlines and all the other distractions vying for your mind, direct you to the way their wind blows? Think of the enormous possibility of flexibility you can choose to have?
"Of course you don't change a persons nature you retouch it."
Andre', "Home Port Maurois"
Isn’t it nice that you can still make choices?
You can choose to change.
You can choose to grow.
You can choose to be your own person.
You can choose love.
You can choose to be creative.
You can choose all of your own choices.
"You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes, Connie,
without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter
dregs are."
Agnes Sligh Turnbull, The Rolling Year
Have you ever thought of all of the bad memories, experiences and episodes in your life that you may be stirring “The bitter dregs” each day that detract from your potential creativity and innovation?
==============================================
Humor, Wit
"A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps
as we walk the tight rope of life."
Anon
Humor is a learned experience. Learning to laugh can be taught to anyone. It only takes a change of your perception. Humor is one of the chief characteristics, as related by some authorities, stimulating our creativity and innovation. Humor is also great for your health. It not only stimulates your immune system but it also energizes our brain cells with those funny little chemicals that make life more interesting.
“Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it
about like marmalade.”
Noel Coward
“Humor is really laughing off a hurt. Grinning at misery.”
Bill
Mauldin
“Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.”
Elsa
Maxwell
Awareness
’Voynitsky: We used to think of you as almost superhuman,
but now the scales have fallen off my eyes and I see you as
you are.?
Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya
Think of yourself with whatever blinders you have covering your eyes? Each of us perceives everything differently. Of course, this difference in our perception is what makes us so unique.
But depending on our background and images planted by sources even unknown, we may have scales, like some animals, over our eyes. Removing these scales over our eyes creates our awareness to the awakened mind.
“On the surface, life is much the same as before…But it is
through-the-looking glass world.”
Jeffrey Schmalz,
In 2005 we saw a paradigm shift in Starbucks Corporations retail strategy. A strategy from making customers at home in their “third place” to serving consumer rapidly at the drive thru. It seems this strategy is working as people want their latte now and they want it fast.Many corporate fast food chains (QSRs) Quick Service Restaurants and their franchisee outlets admit that with unemployment hovering at 5.5% that staffing and labor are by far their toughest issue. And hiring non-English speaking help is problematic as the language barrier upsets customers and complicates communication in the drive thrus.Many of these restaurants are looking to kiosk ordering systems and robotic assembly line style robots to make the order exactly to corporate policy, exactly the right number of olives on the Tostado and the exact number of pickles on the hamburger. Why?Cost for one and because robots do not require health care benefits or sue you when they break a fingernail. They do not mouth off to the manager and never show up late. Also by carefully watching the order and processing consistency is maintained and exactly two napkins are provided in the perfectly folded back as it is given to the customer. Expect more QSRs to announcing automating their establishments and watch Wall Street applaud them as they do. So, think on this in 2006.
"Luck never gives, it only lends."
Anon, Swedish proverb
What are you doing to stimulate the luck in your life? Are you ready for success? Or are you afraid of success? Many times we don't think about the actual fear some people have of success. Think hard about it!
"All owned the affairs of men hang by slender thread."
Ovid
"El Ponto"
One can relate this metaphor with simple events, changes, and incidents and just about anything that can make the slightest change in our lives to greatness or despair. Thinking of the slender thread can remind one of the metaphor, “The Sword of Domacles" when his King, in order to remind Domacles how precarious his position in life was at the Palace. At a banquet in honor of Domacles, the King placed a sword directly over Domacles head, hanging by a few horsehairs. The implication, “Just a reminder of who is really the boss!” Couldn't anyone of our simple deeds of kindness be that simple strand of hair leading to the turning point in our lives?
Originality
"They sun themselves in the great man's light, and feel it to
be their own element."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, speech "The American scholar,"
Harvard college, Aug. 31, 1837. (They as the masses and
the herd)
Isn’t it interesting how Emerson conveys the thought that most people in this world will bask in the accomplishments of all those marvelous creative and innovative risk takers? It’s a wonderful experience instead of "following the leader, to being the leader." A good feeling is when you are the contributing mentor and "the masses and the herd" bask in your contributing greatness to their dignity and welfare? What's wrong with you being their best coach?
"And this I swear by blackest brook of hell,/I am no pick-purse
of another's wit."
Sir Philip Sydney, "Sonnet 74"Astrophel & Stella.
It appears somebody accused him of pilfering an idea as many other writers, artists, coaches and just about everybody else has borrowed from somebody else. When Dad belonged to the National Speakers Association, he conveyed to us a common statement. "When the speaker borrows a quote or idea from one speaker, that's stealing but when he borrows from a whole group of speakers, that's research!"
We should be grateful that we can contribute to somebody else's creativity by the letting them copy from us?
==============================================
Diversity
"Every human being is a colony."
Pablo Picaso's Epigraph
The uniqueness of metaphors is the meaning it has only to you and what perceptions it conjures in your imagination!
Jog your memory as to what the colony of your life is? What makes up the different colonies within your life that stimulates the different worlds of your imagination. It could be family, associations, work, hobby or just about anything that is empowering and having that phenomenal, enrapturing and energizing effect in your life?
What does this overused metaphor still mean to you? "Variety's the spice of life, that gives it all its flavor." William Cowper, "The Timepiece" What type of variety do you have continuously adding to wonderment and resourcefulness?
==============================================
Flexibility
"The rulers (in Japan) our politicians and large businesses.
The ruled our everyone else, the "Grass people," so apathy
termed because they bow in whatever direction the wind
blows."
Reiki Hatsumi
Are you one of the "Grass people?" Are you one of the media junkies who let’s the newspapers, TV news, Internet- ions, headlines and all the other distractions vying for your mind, direct you to the way their wind blows? Think of the enormous possibility of flexibility you can choose to have?
"Of course you don't change a persons nature you retouch it."
Andre', "Home Port Maurois"
Isn’t it nice that you can still make choices?
You can choose to change.
You can choose to grow.
You can choose to be your own person.
You can choose love.
You can choose to be creative.
You can choose all of your own choices.
"You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes, Connie,
without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter
dregs are."
Agnes Sligh Turnbull, The Rolling Year
Have you ever thought of all of the bad memories, experiences and episodes in your life that you may be stirring “The bitter dregs” each day that detract from your potential creativity and innovation?
==============================================
Humor, Wit
"A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps
as we walk the tight rope of life."
Anon
Humor is a learned experience. Learning to laugh can be taught to anyone. It only takes a change of your perception. Humor is one of the chief characteristics, as related by some authorities, stimulating our creativity and innovation. Humor is also great for your health. It not only stimulates your immune system but it also energizes our brain cells with those funny little chemicals that make life more interesting.
“Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it
about like marmalade.”
Noel Coward
“Humor is really laughing off a hurt. Grinning at misery.”
Bill
Mauldin
“Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.”
Elsa
Maxwell
Awareness
’Voynitsky: We used to think of you as almost superhuman,
but now the scales have fallen off my eyes and I see you as
you are.?
Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya
Think of yourself with whatever blinders you have covering your eyes? Each of us perceives everything differently. Of course, this difference in our perception is what makes us so unique.
But depending on our background and images planted by sources even unknown, we may have scales, like some animals, over our eyes. Removing these scales over our eyes creates our awareness to the awakened mind.
“On the surface, life is much the same as before…But it is
through-the-looking glass world.”
Jeffrey Schmalz,
When you sit down to compose your ad copy keep in mind that all the best copy writers will tell you to be sure to use those “special key” words that will influence your customer to buy. Years of marketing research has been done, and will continue to go on for years to come in the never ending quest for those targeted advertising ways to get us to buy, especially from some one we do not know. Though from time to time the words or their effectiveness may change slightly for the most part there seems to be those standard over used ones that we keep buying into, even if the product we buy is not exactly up to our expectations of what we thought we were buying. To me it seems as though these words have some kind of mind altering power of sorts. Let’s take a look at them, and be honest with yourself when you read them, and must admit to yourself, man I get pulled in every time on this word or that one or many of them.1) New. This can come in several forms; new and improved, new never seen before now, completely new, new information, new technology, new results, and new tastes. You get the idea, anything to get you to “feel” as though this “new” product or service is just what you need to improve the quality of your life.2) Important. This word can and usually does establish the fact that this is possibly information that you can not do without. It may be crucial in order to make needed changes in ones life. This word can also lead the ad copy directly into the next key word on
Sir Philip Sydney, "Sonnet 74"Astrophel & Stella.
It appears somebody accused him of pilfering an idea as many other writers, artists, coaches and just about everybody else has borrowed from somebody else. When Dad belonged to the National Speakers Association, he conveyed to us a common statement. "When the speaker borrows a quote or idea from one speaker, that's stealing but when he borrows from a whole group of speakers, that's research!"
We should be grateful that we can contribute to somebody else's creativity by the letting them copy from us?
==============================================
Diversity
"Every human being is a colony."
Pablo Picaso's Epigraph
The uniqueness of metaphors is the meaning it has only to you and what perceptions it conjures in your imagination!
Jog your memory as to what the colony of your life is? What makes up the different colonies within your life that stimulates the different worlds of your imagination. It could be family, associations, work, hobby or just about anything that is empowering and having that phenomenal, enrapturing and energizing effect in your life?
What does this overused metaphor still mean to you? "Variety's the spice of life, that gives it all its flavor." William Cowper, "The Timepiece" What type of variety do you have continuously adding to wonderment and resourcefulness?
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Flexibility
"The rulers (in Japan) our politicians and large businesses.
The ruled our everyone else, the "Grass people," so apathy
termed because they bow in whatever direction the wind
blows."
Reiki Hatsumi
Are you one of the "Grass people?" Are you one of the media junkies who let’s the newspapers, TV news, Internet- ions, headlines and all the other distractions vying for your mind, direct you to the way their wind blows? Think of the enormous possibility of flexibility you can choose to have?
"Of course you don't change a persons nature you retouch it."
Andre', "Home Port Maurois"
Isn’t it nice that you can still make choices?
You can choose to change.
You can choose to grow.
You can choose to be your own person.
You can choose love.
You can choose to be creative.
You can choose all of your own choices.
"You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes, Connie,
without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter
dregs are."
Agnes Sligh Turnbull, The Rolling Year
Have you ever thought of all of the bad memories, experiences and episodes in your life that you may be stirring “The bitter dregs” each day that detract from your potential creativity and innovation?
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Humor, Wit
"A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps
as we walk the tight rope of life."
Anon
Humor is a learned experience. Learning to laugh can be taught to anyone. It only takes a change of your perception. Humor is one of the chief characteristics, as related by some authorities, stimulating our creativity and innovation. Humor is also great for your health. It not only stimulates your immune system but it also energizes our brain cells with those funny little chemicals that make life more interesting.
“Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it
about like marmalade.”
Noel Coward
“Humor is really laughing off a hurt. Grinning at misery.”
Bill
Mauldin
“Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.”
Elsa
Maxwell
Awareness
’Voynitsky: We used to think of you as almost superhuman,
but now the scales have fallen off my eyes and I see you as
you are.?
Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya
Think of yourself with whatever blinders you have covering your eyes? Each of us perceives everything differently. Of course, this difference in our perception is what makes us so unique.
But depending on our background and images planted by sources even unknown, we may have scales, like some animals, over our eyes. Removing these scales over our eyes creates our awareness to the awakened mind.
“On the surface, life is much the same as before…But it is
through-the-looking glass world.”
Jeffrey Schmalz,
You may be aware that in a basketball game the assistant coaches keep an almost unending list of personal statistics for each player. Rebounds, assists, points, minutes played, etc. Why is that? Because they know that these individual statistics all add up to the bottom line. The final score. If they can achieve even a small incremental improvement in these individual statistics for each player this will have a compound affect on the final score. And of course, it helps them know which players to give the most playing time too. In marketing your business you should be just as disciplined. Which products and which ads and which media should you give the most playing time? Do you know? What’s the point of designing and implementing an advertising campaign if you don’t know if it worked or if it was better than the last one? What a waste. How do you know where the best place is to spend your advertising dollars? By tracking everything. Incoming calls, emails, walk-ins, website visitors, etc. Train yourself and your staff to always ask these questions. Where did they come from? How did they hear about you? Which ad did they call on? Here is an example: Let’s say you place a classified ad in the newspaper at a cost of $135.00 offering a free report on your product. You could track the incoming calls in many ways
You can choose to change.
You can choose to grow.
You can choose to be your own person.
You can choose love.
You can choose to be creative.
You can choose all of your own choices.
"You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes, Connie,
without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter
dregs are."
Agnes Sligh Turnbull, The Rolling Year
Have you ever thought of all of the bad memories, experiences and episodes in your life that you may be stirring “The bitter dregs” each day that detract from your potential creativity and innovation?
==============================================
Humor, Wit
"A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps
as we walk the tight rope of life."
Anon
Humor is a learned experience. Learning to laugh can be taught to anyone. It only takes a change of your perception. Humor is one of the chief characteristics, as related by some authorities, stimulating our creativity and innovation. Humor is also great for your health. It not only stimulates your immune system but it also energizes our brain cells with those funny little chemicals that make life more interesting.
“Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it
about like marmalade.”
Noel Coward
“Humor is really laughing off a hurt. Grinning at misery.”
Bill
Mauldin
“Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.”
Elsa
Maxwell
Awareness
’Voynitsky: We used to think of you as almost superhuman,
but now the scales have fallen off my eyes and I see you as
you are.?
Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya
Think of yourself with whatever blinders you have covering your eyes? Each of us perceives everything differently. Of course, this difference in our perception is what makes us so unique.
But depending on our background and images planted by sources even unknown, we may have scales, like some animals, over our eyes. Removing these scales over our eyes creates our awareness to the awakened mind.
“On the surface, life is much the same as before…But it is
through-the-looking glass world.”
Jeffrey Schmalz, The New York Times, December 20. 1992
Some awareness leads to an allusion as to how we see our world. How do you see your world?
What is wrong with creating beautiful allusions of what some people call the “Real World?”
We all experience the awareness of our “Real World” daily but why not change your world?
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
Gandhi
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