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Doing What You Love

August 30, 2014

One day during winter in Seattle in 2012, I was driving from Redmond to Kenmore and it was snowing. It was a Winter Wonderland.

I was listening to the Bob Rivers Show on KJR (95.7) FM radio. It was early in the morning. As I listened to Bob, Joe, Spike and Jody humorously banter back and forth as they did, it reminded me of the jovial, good-spirited bantering that I could always count on from my family- grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles-whenever we all got together for holidays, or any occasion really. So it felt like home.

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Creativity: When Ideas Strike!

August 30, 2014

There are times when the “light” goes on in my mind and I exclaim, either vocally or silently, “Yes!! That’s it!”

To me, that is a rapturous, wonderful moment. It’s the moment I’ve been waiting for. It’s the time when one or more related thoughts culminate and a brand new idea is born in my mind and I can’t wait to get started on it. Continue Reading…

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The Creative Zone

August 30, 2014

I’m not really a designer but I have designed some things.

Also I’m a beginning woodworker with little actual hands-on experience.

Likewise, I’m not really a songwriter but I’ve written about 30 songs.

I have a similarly strong interest in photography but it has never been the main focal point for me.

But somehow, whenever I’m designing something, building something, writing songs, or taking pictures, I never feel like I should be doing something else.

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Value Yourself

August 30, 2014

As I look at others who seem to be their authentic selves, I see the value in them and what they offer to the world. Then I ask what am I contributing? Where does my value lie? Also I wonder if they feel they are being their authentic selves and they just never think about these things the way I do?

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Being Aware Of Your Gifts

August 28, 2014

After I built the boat desk, I declared to myself that I am a creative type and I need to focus on that. I thought to myself, “Why did I always undervalue this facet of me? So I became introspective.

I started to search through the mental reels of my life to recall other times I had been creative but just took it for granted. I thought about the first thing I ever built. I was in high school and I ordered a kit for a canoe, which I built with a high school friend, in my basement. I christened it, the “Henriette”, after my high school sweetheart.

I launched it in a friend’s swimming pool to test for leaks before I took it out on the rivers in Missouri where I grew up. So the boat desk was the first thing I ever designed, but it was the second thing I ever built. Building the canoe was the first time I realized I like building things and I was good with my hands.

But I didn’t see the connection between the fun I had building it and the gift of being good with my hands. I didn’t realize that it was a gift I was given and I should develop and nurture it.

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