Maxi-Mind is a book about Creativity, how it works in each of us, and how to make use of it in business and personal situations.
The title refers to the 'magic' that happens when both brain hemispheres are used in a creative sequence to generate ideas that are 'outside the box' and then evaluate and screen those ideas to produce a workable innovation.
This book is based on more than 20 years as an engineer and a strategic planner, during which I pursued a keen interest in how ideas are formed and implemented.
Freeing the visual, non-linear right brain to imagine produces ideas that range from wacky to dull. The great innovations often come from twisting the wacky ones to achieve a workable gem.
Applying this process to your life can really set you in a new direction. Try it!
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
IT'S YOUR CALL - 3
When people have a mid-life crisis, when people develop health issues, from skin rash to cancer to allergies to a heart attack, they are getting the kick in the trousers – the call they can’t ignore any more.
My story isn’t very dramatic – I had it good – my career was zipping right along, I thought, till our department was rather abruptly dismantled. My job played far too big a role in my life – I was in over my head with much of what I was doing. My job was stressing me out, but I didn’t notice. I had allergies – sinus problems – my nerves were raw. I didn’t have the tools for self-analysis and introspection that you can learn from classes in the Science of Mind. We used to have an expression – “I was like a guy with one leg at a butt-kicking”. I had no clue, and no clue that I had no clue.
I was shuffled to an unfamiliar job – and I buckled right down. In less than a year, a second shuffle removed my entire level of management from the company. I was shuffled to a new job that was somewhere between my old level and the bottom rung. Within months a new VP had deleted my new job and others like it.
I was stressed, discouraged, grumpy and angry – and I walked across the downtown, in an ugly November wind, to a meeting about possibly moving to another city. In an episode that I have described in detail on other occasions, I got the big kick in the pants – a voice in my head that was NOT mine – saying “You need to become more Spiritual.”
This is the way Spirit works in us – from the inside out – providing first an urge, a desire, then sometimes a kick in the pants – but calling on us to be, not someone else or something else, but to be outwardly the person we were made to be inwardly.
We have complete freedom – but remember our inward choices are still ours – not someone else’s. There is just more of us than we can be aware of, and that greater self remembers what we came here to do. It remembers who we really are. When we aren’t connected with It, we are separated from our greater selves.
Your call may not lead you to ministry as mine did – likely it won’t – but trust me, you are being called – to something. You have an urge, a desire that you are either following now, or ignoring.
Remember, it’s your call. Are you listening?
My story isn’t very dramatic – I had it good – my career was zipping right along, I thought, till our department was rather abruptly dismantled. My job played far too big a role in my life – I was in over my head with much of what I was doing. My job was stressing me out, but I didn’t notice. I had allergies – sinus problems – my nerves were raw. I didn’t have the tools for self-analysis and introspection that you can learn from classes in the Science of Mind. We used to have an expression – “I was like a guy with one leg at a butt-kicking”. I had no clue, and no clue that I had no clue.
I was shuffled to an unfamiliar job – and I buckled right down. In less than a year, a second shuffle removed my entire level of management from the company. I was shuffled to a new job that was somewhere between my old level and the bottom rung. Within months a new VP had deleted my new job and others like it.
I was stressed, discouraged, grumpy and angry – and I walked across the downtown, in an ugly November wind, to a meeting about possibly moving to another city. In an episode that I have described in detail on other occasions, I got the big kick in the pants – a voice in my head that was NOT mine – saying “You need to become more Spiritual.”
This is the way Spirit works in us – from the inside out – providing first an urge, a desire, then sometimes a kick in the pants – but calling on us to be, not someone else or something else, but to be outwardly the person we were made to be inwardly.
We have complete freedom – but remember our inward choices are still ours – not someone else’s. There is just more of us than we can be aware of, and that greater self remembers what we came here to do. It remembers who we really are. When we aren’t connected with It, we are separated from our greater selves.
Your call may not lead you to ministry as mine did – likely it won’t – but trust me, you are being called – to something. You have an urge, a desire that you are either following now, or ignoring.
Remember, it’s your call. Are you listening?
Saturday, July 19, 2008
IT'S YOUR CALL - 2
You see, the call comes to people from all walks of life, all backgrounds, all personality types from jolly to grumpy – everyone gets the call. We are all called to do something.
I have had people ask me about their urges – sometimes they have been taught that their urges are evil – from some inner demon seeking to lead them astray.
I cannot stress this strongly enough –NO urge of itself is wrong – but there can be a wrong interpretation of a desire.
If you are living from the ego side of your consciousness, if your awareness is focused in the physical, material world, you may translate your desires from fear or anxiety. This will translate into a general sense of lack. You may then feel lust, which flows from feeling a lack of intimacy or closeness. You may feel confusion, a lack of harmony. You may experience greed or poverty, a sense of lacking material support. When you interpret your desires from your fear, then a perfectly normal desire may be warped by the errors in your consciousness into something wrong and harmful.
If so, there is only one thing to do – THINK AGAIN – and think differently!
Be sensitive to your desires, and think them through. Think about how to fulfill this desire for the good of all – your self included. Desires are part of our feeling nature – add some thinking to them – and then fulfill them in a healthy and positive way. There is no wrong or desire – only a wrong interpretation and follow-up action. Do everything from the highest and best good for all, and you cannot ever go astray!
A tiny handful of people are lucky enough to follow their path right from birth or from childhood. For them, it may seem like the call never came, because they followed their path right from the start.
For most of us – we start out along a path that seems reasonable – we go with the flow, it seems – and at some point in our life we begin to fidget, we squirm, we are itchy, possibly unhappy.
At that point we have a choice – to listen and maybe hear the call – or to ignore it and hope it goes away. Many people are ignoring their inner call right now. It will not go away.
I have had people ask me about their urges – sometimes they have been taught that their urges are evil – from some inner demon seeking to lead them astray.
I cannot stress this strongly enough –NO urge of itself is wrong – but there can be a wrong interpretation of a desire.
If you are living from the ego side of your consciousness, if your awareness is focused in the physical, material world, you may translate your desires from fear or anxiety. This will translate into a general sense of lack. You may then feel lust, which flows from feeling a lack of intimacy or closeness. You may feel confusion, a lack of harmony. You may experience greed or poverty, a sense of lacking material support. When you interpret your desires from your fear, then a perfectly normal desire may be warped by the errors in your consciousness into something wrong and harmful.
If so, there is only one thing to do – THINK AGAIN – and think differently!
Be sensitive to your desires, and think them through. Think about how to fulfill this desire for the good of all – your self included. Desires are part of our feeling nature – add some thinking to them – and then fulfill them in a healthy and positive way. There is no wrong or desire – only a wrong interpretation and follow-up action. Do everything from the highest and best good for all, and you cannot ever go astray!
A tiny handful of people are lucky enough to follow their path right from birth or from childhood. For them, it may seem like the call never came, because they followed their path right from the start.
For most of us – we start out along a path that seems reasonable – we go with the flow, it seems – and at some point in our life we begin to fidget, we squirm, we are itchy, possibly unhappy.
At that point we have a choice – to listen and maybe hear the call – or to ignore it and hope it goes away. Many people are ignoring their inner call right now. It will not go away.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
IT'S YOUR CALL - 1
You are being called, right now, to do something.
Each and every one of us has within us an urge, a desire, or a voice, that pushes us forward to do or to be something that reflects our inner reality.
Not everyone is destined for fortune or fame. We may be called on to build, to lead, to communicate. We may be called on to love, to nurture, and to be a supportive presence.
You have either harkened to your call, or you have turned away from it, but it has not gone away. The urge to be your true being never leaves you, and the price of ignoring it can be terribly high.
How many of you have found yourselves following a path that surprised you?
Those of us whose lives have taken a surprising turn are those who have harkened to the call of an inner voice, or an impulse that we couldn’t quite explain at the time.
Whether from courage or curiosity, our choice to follow this impulse is an example that has been followed by many for thousands of years.
Have you ever gotten a call that made you shift 90 or 180 degrees, and turn your whole life in a different direction? Are you being called right now, but not listening? If you have ever felt an unexplainable urge, or a burning desire, or a powerful notion – it’s your call.
Each and every one of us has within us an urge, a desire, or a voice, that pushes us forward to do or to be something that reflects our inner reality.
Not everyone is destined for fortune or fame. We may be called on to build, to lead, to communicate. We may be called on to love, to nurture, and to be a supportive presence.
You have either harkened to your call, or you have turned away from it, but it has not gone away. The urge to be your true being never leaves you, and the price of ignoring it can be terribly high.
How many of you have found yourselves following a path that surprised you?
Those of us whose lives have taken a surprising turn are those who have harkened to the call of an inner voice, or an impulse that we couldn’t quite explain at the time.
Whether from courage or curiosity, our choice to follow this impulse is an example that has been followed by many for thousands of years.
Have you ever gotten a call that made you shift 90 or 180 degrees, and turn your whole life in a different direction? Are you being called right now, but not listening? If you have ever felt an unexplainable urge, or a burning desire, or a powerful notion – it’s your call.
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