Creativity, inspiration, talent, genius what is its source?
What is worse than having no inspiration? It is the frustration of having the time on your hands to create and no inspiration.
What is the source of your inspiration? What gets your creative juices flowing?
Giving yourself pre-planned time and the opportunity to create is the worse preparation for creativity, it just doesn't work that way. It happens unexpectedly and when it does capture it quickly because it disappears perhaps forever. The thing is you just need the one thing that sets it off and then your mind fills in the rest of the details. Without the creative spark you never get to first base with that one 'thing' or idea.
The source of my inspiration is unknown, it comes and it goes when it feels like it without me begin able to control the flow, the frequency, the intensity, the quality, the timing or the form of the output. Now with something so out of your inner space, why is it that people still crave for it, desire it if they are not naturally born with it, respect it when they see great works of art, music and literature and want to mimic its effect? I think it is because the source is unknown that people like the creative instinct, it is surprising in a world full of regimentation, conservatism and rigidity in thinking and because it because true creativity and originality and innovation pleases the heart, the mind and the soul not to mention the pocket of the inventor.
Is there anything you can do to spur your creativity? Firstly, you must be born with the creative urge, the desire to create, without that spark there is no point in hurting your brain trying to get it to product brilliant and original works, it just can't and won't happen no matter how hard you try. My creativity is in writing harnessed for business purposes, business writing if you will. I can write a mean resume or anything to do with business like a press release, product description, this web site even. Read on if you are the creative type or have an inkling you may be.
You may already know the things that you do to put yourself in the best position possible for when it strikes. You may work out and be a bit of a gym junkie, drink red wine, have sex, smoke, chase men or women as the case may be or both, take illicit drugs, work in your garden until the moment arises and then rush to your canvas, easel, piano, blank sheet music, blank paper or whatever other medium you use, some people are equally creative in all mediums.
Provide yourself with as happy and settled a home life as possible. For some artists, this is totally anathema to the total art concept and devoting your whole life to your art and your muse and drinking and partying heavily. But to be creative over a long period of time (rather than a shooting star) you need a solid base at home to take off from.
A real creative artist is a tortured soul with a mind (out of your conscious control) that is always looking out for the strange, different, the unusual, the possibilities in the mundane, the everyday, the routine, the daily habits and minutiae of people's lives. This is sort of a definition of creativity. You find in something no one else would even guess wildly was there. For creative longevity, you need to soothe that tortured soul, that pained soul, that soul that feels to the depths and core what it s to be abjectly and desperately human. Use whatever balm is at your disposal and what works but ensure it is not going to destroy you (and your art) in the long run. Illicit drugs and alcohol can destroy you.
The most frustrating part of having some talent is sometimes (most times) you are working hard away (that is part of the secret of creativity) and as you're about to come up with something really sharp, really creative, really inspired and as you reach for it, it just disappears and goes away in a flash without you having an inkling of what that was. You reached too far, too hard, too deep inside before it was ready to be born. Have patience the right time will come if you work hard enough and you are blessed with the talent to make that occasional breakthrough.
Writing about this subject (life and executive coaching) for a few years now, well after a while you have picked the low hanging fruit of your creativity and innovation (call it what you will) and after a while it gets harder and harder to be original and you find after a while you begin to repeat yourself. Sometimes this is for the better but for the most part you are saying the same thing over and over again and this is something to watch out and at these times being mute is the best witness to what is going on inside you (for that is the source of this writing). Your personal battles and wins/losses. Not many people are able to drag out of themselves the lessons (sometimes bitter) from these petty struggles and turn them into
something which transcends the present and the peculiarities of the locale they originated from. This is my gift and my burden.
About Gilbert Labour. He is an Executive Coach and Life Coach practicing in Sydney Australia but with a world wide interest in coaching with one of the world's leading life and executive coaching web sites. He has 30 years corporate experience in legal, government, telecommunication, banking & finance, insurance, accounting, IT, outsourcing and transportation. He is also a process improvement (Six Sigma, Lean) and project management expert and IT infra-structure professional within those industries. He is available to consult and support on any aspect of executive coaching as it assists organisations in the midst of radical and fundamental change including process improvement efforts preceding large retrenchment programs. The cost of his involvement is dependent on the size of the business and the scope and location of the engagement.
Life Coaching Tips and Techniques No. 10
Obesity and the roller coaster ride from nadir to zenith and back
There are five journeys in obesity, which one are you on now?
Why are there obese people when there are people starving in the world? Is obesity a medical problem rather than
one of lack of self-control or perhaps even one using food for sexual/sensual gratification for masking (?) the real problems?
How successful is someone who is 250 kilos at 'masking' or hiding the problem?
The five journeys is obesity are -
Getting there becoming obese, this is the easiest journey of all and happens almost without you knowing. This journey is on the road to death.
Staying there at a steady weight, this is a hard journey because the tendency is to put on more weight not less. This journey is a slow death.
The next journey is one into hell and that is on the road to putting on more and more weight. This is the last journey these people even embark on.
This journey ends in death.
The penultimate journey and the one with the most difficulty starting is the road back away from obesity. The enormous journey back is not the problem
but the first step back, the first gram lost. This journey is not a journey of weight loss but a journey to lose the fears and problems that the weight gain had
temporarily put on the back burner. This second last journey is the life coaching journey and has much less to do with weight loss, exercise and fitness and more to do with
facing problems in their real intensity and fury perhaps for the first time since the decision taken to embark on the first journey.
The last journey and that is to keep the weight at the target weight after the massive task of weight loss because again the tendency is to put the weight back on
even faster than before and much much faster than it was lost. For every gram lost a kilo is put on.
Work with a life coach who understands your weight problem is not a weight problem but a personal problem posing, impersonating a weight problem. Someone who knows which
journey you are on and can make sure you either move to the next healthy journey or stay at the healthy journey you're on.
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The 555 Program is complementary to the 333 Program and is part of a family of programs called The Numbered Series, a simplification of a plethora of products, services and programs into
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The key goals of the 555 Program is to be able to run 5k in 5 months, to solve 5 life coaching issues or problems in 5 months and to investigate and resolve 5 executive coaching problems
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Beyond the existing Diamond program being run on the portal, a series of additional programs are being developed to be run for specific audiences and which have very clear targets and goals.
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The 555 Program
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dealing with personal issues and an executive stream to supercharge your work, business and corporate environment.
The first stream is a fitness element. The goal is to be able to run 5k (non stop) in five months and be able to lose 5 kilos in the process. This is a modest achievement and is considered a healthy approach to fitness generally.
I am a former fitness instructor and dance teacher and can provide guidance in this area. You will need a clearance from your doctor if you're over 45.
The second stream is a life coaching element. The goal of the life coaching is to investigate a number of current personal issues and focus on 5 for resolution in 5 months. One to be resolved or at least worked on each month.
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leaving the corporate environment and developing a small business. For the hard core executives and other corporate thrivers and survivors there will be a number of areas that include executive interview training and executive decision making that can be covered.
There are many others and these can be chosen based on your current goals. The aim of this stream is canvass all the possibilities and focus on only 5 and work through each one.
The cost of the program varies. To take part on a one-on-one basis with Gilbert Labour will cost $5000. To take part in a group setting will cost $2000. Individual programs can start at anytime considered suitable.
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I also do a small amount of pro-bono work in the area of life coaching. I belong to the Life Coaching Pro Bono Group (LCPBG), a group of life coaches I am putting together to do this type of work for people in need but who may not be able to afford the services of a full fee life coach. We make allowances for your circumstances and also on the understanding that once you're back on your
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Generally speaking, we will set clear goals, we will put in place plans to attain those goals, we will execute the plan effectively. We will monitor and survey the results and ensure our goals are met. In most cases, we will envelope what we are trying to achieve into a coaching programme.
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