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You have to think anyway, so why not think big? Donald Trump
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“If you’re too rushed, you won’t be happy. You need time to rest, reflect, and enjoy your activities.”
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Larry Bird
California Academy of Sciences Rainforest
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“Great creatives are courageous spirits. They put their reputations and successes on the line everyday in pursuit of the next great idea. They are known for breaking the rules, ignoring conventional wisdom and forging into uncharted territory.”
Excellence
Generating Possibilities & Creating Opportunities
The most successful gifted, talented and creative people in business and industry are masters at generating possibilities and creating opportunities for themselves, their business, and other people.
How do these prosperous gifted, talented, and creative people do it?
I reach for the stars, and find love, happiness and fulfillment along the way. Chellie Campbell
Study success masters and you will find they:
take care of themselves well and maintain their relationships
have a great support team of advisors--coach, therapist, mastermind group, peers
are always growing and learning something new
apprecitate and utilize their own giftedness, talents, abilities, interests and creativity
make time--on a regular basis--for thought, exploration, creativity, reinvention, relaxation, daydreaming
make time for what is important for themselves--and others--at home, work, and in the community.
Generating possibilities and creating opportunities for yourself at home, at work, and in the community can be very challenging in the face of personal, familial, organizational, and societal beliefs, expectations, and stresses.
Everybody has an opinion, advice they give or something they think you should do. When when your mind is flooded with this information—you have no room, or time, for reflecting on your own thoughts, ideas, counsel or brilliance.
Thinking and making decisions from a pressured, constricted or stressed out perspective most often results in difficult and conflicted internal conversations, inner tension and turmoil, and a highly unsatisfactory and unprofitable choice.
Loss of sleep, irritability, increased conflict with your spouse, trouble at work, and personal feelings of inadequacy are also likely to be present.
Not seeing and using the best choices and opportunities result from not creating a time for thought, reflection, exploration, research, and consultation from self and invited others.
What's a gifted adult to do?
Never let the urgent crowd out the important. Kelly Catlin Walker
Make sure you are at the center of your own life, business and career.
As Stewart D. Friedman says, "Traditional thinking pits work and the rest of our lives against each other."
Follow his advice on how to leverage that for success and excellence...."Taking smart steps to integrate work, home, community, and self will make you a more productive leader and a more productive person."
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the person who holds the job. George Crane
Making choices--and the generation and consideration of possibilities and opportunities--from an informed, self-aware and expanded perspective--and state of being--more often results in a sense of satisfying commitment and action toward doing things you want to do that make a difference to you and your business or organization--as well as the bottom line.
This is the basic anatomy of success, satisfaction and happiness that is well financed.
Taking risks, being willing to make mistakes and taking the necessary leaps of faith come from knowing and honoring your interests, values, and priorities—and from having your own success team to consult with as the captain and CEO.
Whether you have a business, executive or life coach, a formal or informal mastermind group, “kitchen cabinet”, or small circle of advisors—once you listen to what others have said go back and reflect on what you want, need and desire. After doing that, make your decision or take your action—or get yourself a really, really good coach—one who understands and knows how to guide and collaborate with original and creative-minded gifted adults--to guide you and help you create and manifest the success you envision.
The result: confidence, well being, productivity, and enjoyment of life at work and in interpersonal relationships.
Lynne Azpeitia, MFT
310-828-7121
3025 Olympic Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90404
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“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. ”
“Nobody else can tell you whether your idea is worthwhile. People can give you advice, but at the end of the day, it’s your decision. The more original an idea, the less helpful the advice is going to be.”
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Carl Jung
“When we refuse to take time off until we get caught up with our work, we never take time off. Life isn’t about being caught up. Life is about participating. That’s all. Just participating.”
“Companies repeat what made them successful long after it starts to damage them.”
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“Creative minds are highly susceptible to distraction, and our newfound connectivity poses a powerful temptation for all of us to drift off focus.”
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