Are You Ready To Meet Your Creative Destiny?

If you are too scared to show your work to the world, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you are not willing to work at an idea until it works, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you are afraid to take risks, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If constraints hamper you, rather than inspire you, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you are more desperate to "please", than to express a unique vision, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you are formula driven, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you believe you are too young, or too old to create, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you are not ready to put who you are – your unique style and vision – into your work, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you seek fame, praise, and glory, rather than creative fulfillment, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you evaluate your creation, based on the money it brings, rather than its creative value, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you think a creative life cannot be developed alongside a professional life, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny. 

If you do not believe that you could wake up tomorrow with new insights, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you hit plateaus, and are discouraged by them, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you are not willing to sacrifice time, money (and competing distractions), for your craft, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny. 

If, when you are at a dead end, you do not trust your subconscious to pull a rabbit out of the hat, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny. 

If you have any doubt, a single word, a single line, a single exposure to something, can provide the answer you are looking for, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you are not willing to toss your first idea, to make way for a better idea, and an even better idea, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you are touchy and resistant about advice, direction and input, then you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you would rather an idea gather dust, than collaborate and give it a  chance, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you do not take time to understand what makes your creativity flourish, and block out "creative time", you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you do not believe in the value of a creative pause, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you think creativity is not intellectually worthwhile, and applicable only in certain spheres and fields, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

The fact of the matter is, everything in life – our jobs, our relationships, our hobbies – every decision we make, and every step we take - can be enriched if we apply creativity to the task.

How can you be creative about a problem or a challenge you are facing today?

Spend a few minutes to think out of the box.

Keep at it until the “aha” arrives.

As always, thanks for sharing my Journey to Wisdom, Meaning and a Better Life,  and have a great day and week….M ……a Pearl Seeker like you.  Thanks to all of you for your likes, pins, shares, tweets and votes…..much appreciated.

Links to past creativity posts...

Creativity can help you deal with all kinds of situations in your life

Problems change when you look at them through a creative filter

Creativity can help you write a better speech
Creativity can give you wings to fly

Creative constraints can inspire you rather than frustrate you
A creative approach to figuring out what you want to do with your life

Creativity can help you stand out from the pack

Creative challenges for a copywriter 
Taking the First Step Is Important to Leading a More Creative Life
Panning for Gold
What to Do With Your Lightning Bolts

Creating the conditions for your creativity to flourish
The Value of a Creative Pause 

When Less is More

Are You Ready To Meet Your Financial Destiny?

If you are not willing to learn everything there is to know about taxes, and to keep abreast of changing tax laws, then you are not ready to meet your financial destiny.

If you do not have a budget, or track your monthly expenses, then you are not ready to meet your financial destiny.

If you are afraid to take calculated risks, then you are not ready to meet your financial destiny.

If your idea of actionable information is a “hot tip”, then you are not ready to meet your financial destiny.

If you do not make time to study the different saving and investment options available to you, then you are not ready to meet your financial destiny.

If you think earning a high income, or being in a high income bracket, is a guarantee of financial security, then you are not ready to meet your financial destiny.

If you do not look ahead, to tax time, disability time, unemployment time, emergency expense time, and other "times" involving significant expense, or budget challenges, and you do not set aside resources to deal with them, then you are not ready to meet your financial destiny.

If you cannot cut back on luxuries (expensive cars, expensive schools, expensive clothes, expensive utilities, expensive services, expensive anything), when times are tough, then you are not prepared to meet your financial destiny.

If you would rather blame others for your financial problems (the Government, the IRS, the banks, big business, illegals, cheap labor), than take steps to build a strong financial house, then you are not prepared to meet your financial destiny.

If you can’t be bothered to understand the difference between good debt and bad debt, and how to use debt wisely, then you are not ready to meet your financial destiny.

If you never get ahead of debt,  and you get into more and more debt to deal with debt, then you are not ready to meet your financial destiny.

If you do not use insurance wisely (health insurance, car insurance, home insurance, life insurance, renter’s insurance, long-term care insurance), and get optimum premiums and coverage, then you are not ready to meet your financial destiny.

If you do not know the difference between appreciating assets and depreciating assets, then you are not ready to meet your financial destiny.

If you do not know how to manage a windfall, then you are not ready to meet your financial destiny.

If you do not know how to handle losses, then you are not ready to meet your financial destiny.

If you’d rather look wealthy for a season, than be financially comfortable for a long time, then you are not ready to meet your financial destiny.

Yes, when it comes down to it, everything boils down to making a choice between “looking wealthy for a season”, or “being financially comfortable for a long time”.

So what will your choice be?

Spend a few minutes to think about that today. It could change your life.

As always, thanks for sharing my Journey to Wisdom, Meaning and a Better Life,  and have a great day and week….M ……a Pearl Seeker like you.  Thanks to Aarti and Ajay for their compliments on my last post, and thanks to the rest of you for your likes, pins, shares, tweets and votes…..much appreciated.

Links to some milestones on my journey to financial wisdom are below:

A Milestone on My Journey to Financial Wisdom – 1

Another Milestone on My Journey to Financial Wisdom – 2

Yet One More Milestone on My Journey to Financial Wisdom – 3

And a Few More Milestones on My Journey to Financial Wisdom – 4 

And A Few More Milestones on My Journey to Financial Wisdom - 5

And A Few More Milestones on My Journey to Financial Wisdom - 6

And A Few More Milestones on My Journey to Financial Wisdom - 7 

And A Few More Milestones on My Journey to Financial Wisdom - 8