Creative Blogging

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Contents

Forward.....................................................................................1I. Introduction.............................................................................7II. Creative Collective Consciousness.......................................................17b. How to Use Your Intuition to Find Answers to Your Questions..............................24c. How to Use Your Imagination to Create What You Want......................................27d. How to Use Your Intuition and Your Imagination to Find the Right Job.....................35e. Techniques for Improving Your Personal Life and Business.................................41III. Using the Blog in Creative Processes...................................................45a. Combining the Blog with Collaborative Teams..............................................45b. Solving Business Problems with Collaborative Teams.......................................51IV. Anticipating Change (Cycles)............................................................56a. Cycles of change.........................................................................56b. Growth versus Efficiency Cycles..........................................................59c. Personal Financial Cycles................................................................63d. Stock Market Cycles......................................................................64e. Debt Cycles..............................................................................65V. Keeping It Simple........................................................................68a. Two-Edged Sword of Technology............................................................68b. Simplify, Simplify, Simplify ............................................................70c. A Simple Technique to Time the Stock Market..............................................72d. Selecting Your Collaborative Team........................................................77e. How to Function in a Collaborative Team..................................................82VI. Conclusion..............................................................................88Works Consulted.............................................................................93How to use this book........................................................................95About the Author............................................................................97Notes.......................................................................................98

Chapter One

There is a story of an immigrant to America who was very successful. He was asked the secret to his success. He said that his father told him before he came to America to keep asking the same question and he would be successful at whatever he tried. This question was "How you do dat?" Many books and education systems focus on what to do, not how to do it. This book focuses on "how you do dat." It focuses on how to use the blog in a creative way, how to use your imagination and intuition, how to work in a collaborative group, how to find the right job, and how to create your own destiny. If you want to improve your business or personal life, please read on. I will show you "how you do dat."

Many new ideas are combinations of ideas that already exist. This book discusses the use of blogging combined with creative techniques to improve your personal life or business. The creative techniques discussed in this book were used by me, during a lifetime spent owning and working for large and small businesses as an entrepreneur, a business owner, an employee, and a consultant.

There is a common thread that runs through all creative techniques that can be used to master any situation. My grandmother taught me how to find this common thread and apply it to my life. These creative techniques are ageless. To demonstrate this point, I am including in the "Works Consulted" section of this book a list of some of my grandmother's favorite authors who published works in the last half of the 1800's and the first half of the 1900's. She was a great fan of authors such as Frank C. Haddock, Wallace D. Wattles, Prentice Mulford and Albert Einstein. They all knew how to use their intuition to find answers to their questions.

I have experienced business start-ups, a catastrophic business failure, managing a process improvement team in a large public agency, managing a value engineering program that saved $50 million, and participating in or leading value engineering, cost reduction, and process improvement teams. I am also an engineer, a stock and commodity trader, a corn and soybean farmer, and a musician. Through all of these experiences, I have found that Albert Einstein's philosophy works best when applied to creative processes and problem solving. I am using his quotes along with some others to illustrate points in this book.

We cannot solve the significant problems we face at the same level of thinking at which we were when we created the problem. -Albert Einstein

In other words, it is necessary for us to change our thinking and to try different approaches or we will never get different results. Einstein put it yet another way:

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

My intent with this book is to give you some different ideas and approaches that may apply to your specific situations. Some of these ideas might seem a little strange at first, but hear me out and try them. You will then experience their value. Most of the valuable things in life are experiential. What at first may seem like a case of runaway imagination starts to make sense after you have experienced what I'm talking about and can then apply that knowledge to your reality. For example, if you try to tell a young child that she will get burned if she touches a hot stove, she won't have a complete idea of what you are talking about. Once she actually experiences touching a hot stove, she truly understands what it means to get burned. Much of learning what to do is by first experiencing what not to do. Experience has changed her perspective about hot stoves and made her wiser.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a hot stove a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.-Albert Einstein

Once a cat sits on a hot stove, it won't sit on a cold stove either. -Samuel Clemens

Looking back at the life choices we have all made, it is easy to see that most of us have a tendency to pick the hardest way of doing things. We somehow have to touch that hot stove, when everyone tells us we will get burned, in order for it to become part of our reality. Experience is then our teacher and not someone else's words or books. The important thing for us to know is that mistakes are only mistakes if we make them a second time; they are just learning experiences. What we really need to do is take responsibility for our own actions, and if we find that something is not working for us, we need to do something different rather than continuing the same action. This book will show you ways to do things differently in order...