By thinking creatively, you develop a whole new approach to living, establishing new patterns to express your distinctive individuality. Instead of living life on a flat plane, with gray colors, and undistinguished topography, creativity is the tool you can use to create a textured and vibrantly colored environment, and give you greater confidence to achieve lofty goals, and solve challenging problems. You will see your life in a newer, fresher way full of possibilities that were previously invisible.
Do you have a success story to share? Why don't you describe a creative are a of your life in which you are able to express your unique personality and talents and send it to thinkingworld.com. Here are several success stories that might give you some ideas. By recognizing one area of our lives in which we are creative, we can use this as a catalyst to extend our creative energy to all of the other areas of our lives, in ever widening ripples.
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Success Stories: Becoming More Creative
"Raising a child well is a challenging job both physically and mentally, demanding an extensive amount of creativity. As a single parent, I try different techniques to encourage my child, thinking of new and exciting ways to keep her focused in her early stages of learning. For example, each month of the year and day of the week has a tale behind it, as I embroider the subject with stories in order to enhance her learning. I play with her by pretending that I am the daughter and she is the mother, which helps me understand how she sees me as a mother and provides her with an opportunity to act out her feelings. I try to stimulate her creativity (and preserve my sanity) by involving her in the process of cooking, giving her the skin from peeled vegetables so she makes her own "soup". Using catalogues, we cut out pictures of furniture, rugs, and curtains, and she pastes them onto cartons to create her own interior décor: vibrant living rooms, plush bedrooms, colorful family rooms. Beautiful bathtub boats are crafted from aluminum paper; we "go bowling" with empty soda cans and a ball; and she stars in "track meets" by running an obstacle course we set up. Creativity is an instinctive drive inside of me that is expressed in so many ways for her: I am a seamstress for Halloween, a counselor for emotional distress, a nurse for life's unavoidable mishaps, a party planner, a gourmet chef, an award-winning teacher, and especially a friend."
-Carolyn Miller
"One of the most creative aspects of my life is my diet. I have been a vegetarian for the last five years, while the rest of my family has continued to eat meat. I had to overcome many obstacles to make this lifestyle work for me, including family dissention. The solution was simple: I had to learn how to cook creatively. I have come to realize that my diet is an ongoing learning process. I slowly evolved from a person who could cook food only if it came from a can, to someone who could make bread form scratch and grow yogurt cultures. I find learning new things about nutrition and cooking healthful foods very relaxing and rewarding. I like being alone in my house baking bread; there is something very comforting about the aroma. Most of all I like to experiment with different ways to prepare foods because the ideas are my own. Even when an effort is less than successful, I find pleasure in the knowledge that I gained from the experience. I discovered recently, for example, that eggplant is terrible in soup! Making mistakes seems to be a natural way to increase creativity, and I now believe that people who say they don't like vegetables simply have not been properly introduced to them!"
- Hadley Teitworth
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