In the visualization process, for example when creation a Vision Board, creativity is one of the key factors. Creativity in sourcing your dream images, creating powerful affirmations and selecting the most inspiring music for your visualization. Really finding those elements that makes you feel completely excited about your goals and driven to achieve them. It also makes it a lot of fun and creates real satisfaction about your end result.

So how do we increase creativity and stay away from fixed ways of thinking?

In his classic “The magic of thinking big”, David J Schwartz discusses how to think and dream creatively. “Personal enemy number one”, he says, “for the person who is interested in a creative personal success program, is Traditional Thinking. It freezes your mind and blocks your progress”. He describes an interesting way to create more creative power, which I thought would be valuable for you to try. It is:

Be an experimental person

He suggests: “Break up fixed routines. Expose yourself to new restaurants, new books, new theaters, new friends; take a different route to work some day, take a different vacation this year, do something new and different this weekend”

I love this idea, as I think it can be quite easy to slip into a set way of thinking about things and to follow certain routines day in day out without consciously thinking about them. This really shuts down your creativity and minimizes the possibility of improvement. So I think this is a great practice, as it forces you to think outside the square. This will keep you open and inspired for ideas, people and ways of thinking that might be completely different from yours.

So start a totally different hobby, do something new with your family, take a different route driving home from the office or just try something different for lunch. You might just like the change !

Have a powerful week!

Linda Boertjens

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Have you ever noticed that little voice in your mind? You know; the voice that right now is saying “what little voice?”… You probably know what I am talking about. Every one of us has some kind of internal dialog going on most of the day. Mine drives me nuts sometimes! To keep your thoughts and feelings positive it is very important to pro actively notice this voice and to keep track of what it is saying. In my view, there actually are two little voices… one positive and one negative. The positive one is the one that is supportive of all your ideas, beliefs in what you do and always expects the good in other people. The negative one is the whiner who always tries to put you and the rest of the world down, has no belief in what is possible and makes you feel doubtful and frustrated.

The positive voice is the one that creates the positive feelings and therefore will help you to attract the dreams and goals you have set for yourself by virtue of the Law of Attraction. It will help you to get ahead in life. The negative one creates negative feelings of jealousy, fear or frustration and will therefore sabotage your efforts to try and create the life of your dreams. It will only create more negativity in your life.

Key is: give more attention to the positive voice than to the negative one. In fact, try to give as little acknowledgment as possible to the negative voice. I suggest having a bit of fun with this. In your mind, create a mental image of your positive voice and your negative voice. Your positive voice could be represented by a fun little cheerleader, jumping around all happy and excited on your left shoulder. The negative voice could be a grumpy little old man, sitting cross armed on your shoulder with an angry little face. Now every time you hear yourself saying something negative to yourself or others, notice the little old grumpy dumpy sitting on your shoulder… That was him talking. On the other side is the fun cheerleader: what would she say? Would that be more constructive to say in this situation?

Just give it a try… by being and talking more positive to yourself and others, you will be able to apply the teachings of the Law of Attractions a lot more effective. Talking and speaking positive will attract more positive empowering things to you! If you are serious about attracting your dreams and goals in life, listen to your cheerleader and let the grumpy one crumble away…!

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