Day: January 26, 2023

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Creative Content

creative content

We are all an embodiment of creative content. The real man is not the outward look or appearance but the spirit inward – it is the hidden man of the heart. Hence, what defines us is not our body size, physique, or macho, rather what defines us is the spiritual content within the body. It is all about the quality of the content and not the size of the container. So, man, as we know him, is an embodiment of rich spiritual content. 

There is another side of man that we must all know. And that is the creative side of man. Man is a creative being just as he is a spirit being. Man, as we know him, is an embodiment of rich creative content. This means that man will have a fulfilling life experience if he can tap into the rich creative content of the baggage of life. Consequently, one needs to be creative in their approach to life to be happy and satisfied with life.

To Be Creative

Obviously, to be creative means to be talented. It is very common to hear people talk about talents with regard to personal achievements. You hear phrases like talented singer, talented speaker, talented writer, talented actor, or talented footballer, etc. A person that is talented is creative in the way he or she does things. The truth is that we are all endowed with talents. While some are multi-talented others are not. 

Talent is a unique skill or quality which enables people to achieve difficult tasks with great ease. Talents are special endowments or gifts which facilitate the fulfillment of dreams. In the fulfillment of dreams, you must be able to discover and express your talents. It takes talent for you to pursue your dreams and succeed in life. Hence, our happiness and fulfillment in life answer our talents. Also through our talents, we are able to make a positive impact in life. A gift or skill becomes a talent only if it is beneficial to the general public. Your talent is for service to humanity.

Interestingly, it is your creative content that ushers you into the realm of greatness. Hence for you to have a bite of greatness you must put your creative content into use. It is now clear that we are an embodiment of creative content but how we express them depends on our ability. Ability in this sense is being able to coordinate or harness this creative content. And one of the ways to take a shot at greatness in life is to have the ability to harness or coordinate our talents. 

How to Coordinate Creative Content

This ability to coordinate our talents is called creativity. In order to coordinate or harness your creative content you must take the path of self-discovery. You must look inward to discover your strength, passion, and skills, and harness them for maximum impact in life. Take full stock of your life, discover your strength and consolidate them. That is capacity building and it determines how far you will go as far as success and fulfillment in life are concerned.

In coordinating your talents, you must be ready to go beyond your limits. An elastic band when it is pressured or overstretched does not return to its original state. Likewise, talent when it is stretched beyond its limits does not remain the same. That is the elasticity of creative content. With creative content, you can break new grounds and frontiers. It is unlimited as it is not limited in any way by barriers. Hence, if you must employ your talent to benefit others you must be ready to go beyond your limits.

No Limitation to Creative Content

Like I said earlier, we are all embodiments of creative content, and there is no limitation to what we can achieve in life. The whole world awaits our arrival. They are waiting for us to showcase these talents. What is that thing that you derive joy in doing? What is that activity that is driven by passion in your life? Pursue it vigorously. 

For instance, you might be someone that is passionate about helping the poor and the needy – you may be the next philanthropist. Do you have a flair for writing? -then you may be the author of the next bestseller. You might be someone, who when he talks people reel with laughter- you may be the next comedian. Or someone who can sing beautifully – you may be the next music star. We all got this creative content, so whatever it is, you must take the necessary steps to discover, develop and express them. The world will be a better place if we all can do this.

Feel Good with Creative Content

Your ability to coordinate your creative content will make you feel good. It can motivate you to excellent performance in any endeavor. And it is characterized by a deep sense of fulfillment. Moreover, it is the peak of creativity, and creativity is the life of every enterprise. Every notable achievement or invention is a product of creativity. As we all know creativity is a springboard to success. It makes you feel good when you know you have the potential for greatness. You need creativity to sow the seed of greatness and this is fundamental to any endeavor, be it business, music, literature, science, and technology, etc.

 In this journey of life, you possess creative ideas and talents. And your happiness and satisfaction in life depend on them. Inside of you is creative abilities that can help bring out the best in you. One thing you should always remember is that nobody has a monopoly or is a sole repository of creative content. Every one of us has our own creative content full of talents and potential. And if and when you fail to utilize this content others will do and come up with smart ideas better than yours. In such a situation, you will play the second fiddle and there is no fulfillment in doing that.

Remember you are an embodiment of rich creative content which you must tap into for success in any endeavor. Look inwards now, you carry something inside of you which will help you to succeed and be happy in life. Pursue your dreams with vigor until you actualize them. And if you have got ideas then create values with your ideas.  You have so much more than you need to succeed in life. And when you do you will feel good.

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Grasshopper Mentality: How to Eliminate Wrong Mentality

Grasshopper mentality

Grasshopper mentality is a wrong mentality you must deal with for you to command an exceptional and unbridled successful lifestyle. A wrong mentality is a bane to success. This mentality is a product, an offspring of a negative worldview, and as far as an exceptional lifestyle is concerned it is a red flag that must be carefully avoided. Grasshopper mentality in its entire ramification is harmful and injurious to fulfillment. That is to say, a blissful and fulfilled life is impossible with such a wrong mentality. Unfortunately, many are enmeshed in inexplicable situations because of this wrong mentality.

The grasshopper mentality is in full manifestation when one;

  • views or sees herself as defeated even without putting up a fight or trying to salvage the situation. It is a defeatist mentality.
  • sees self as too insignificant to make any impact in life.
  • feels helpless or deficient in the face of challenges,
  • a feeling of inferiority complex, a condition where one sees nothing good about self, especially when compared to others.
  • inability to see beyond your present predicament. It is a lack of vision. It is the myopic mentality
And they brought up an evil report of the land … saying, the land, through which we have gone to search, it is a land that eats up the inhabitants thereof; all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak which come of giants: and we were in our sights as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight, (Numbers 13:32, 33).

This kind of mentality will only make one see the invincibility of their problems or challenges. Under the influence of this mentality, an individual is going to magnify problems more than the ability to contain them. Grasshopper mentality no doubt comes with unmitigated disasters. It inhibits you from making attempts at success; hence you are unable to put your ability and talents to the test. It also leads to retrogression, and stagnation, and makes you accept defeat without even making an effort to redeem your situation. Above all, it keeps you in perpetual fear of the unknown. It is a wrong mentality and very unhealthy for conquest. Success cannot thrive under a gloomy atmosphere saturated with such a mentality. You must kill this wrong mentality. Do everything possible to eliminate it.

How to Eliminate Grasshopper Mentality

The invincibility of the WillPower

The first step is what I have termed the ‘Invincibility of the willpower’. You must understand that no matter how strong or invincible your challenges may be they will always succumb to the superior power of your will. Remember ‘where there is a will there is always a way’. Have you been enmeshed for so long in the fetters of grasshopper mentality? Do you want to disentangle yourself and succeed in life? Then you must unleash your willpower. Resolve within you that you can never be clipped down by this wrong mentality. You must determine, and dare to stand out because you are made of steel.

Avoid all Forms of Comparison

It is important you don’t compare yourself with anyone. It is not a wise thing to do. Doing so might expose your inadequacies and deficiencies. This will eventually lead to an inferiority complex a situation where you conclude that others are better off than you. You will then see yourself as not good enough compared to other people. As much as possible you must understand that life is in stages and every man’s rating is according to his capacity. So what matters most is that at every stage of life, you find yourself making sure you have the capacity to prove your mettle and progress to the next stage or level of life. Don’t let the achievements of others intimidate you, you can surpass them if you can be the best you can be at every stage of life you find yourself.

Believe in Your Ability

Thirdly, no matter the invincibility of your challenges you must never doubt your ability; you have all it takes to overcome them. You are by default, fully loaded with abilities to dominate in life even over challenges

And God blessed them, and God said unto them …., have dominion. – Genesis 1: 28.

No matter what, don’t accept defeat in any challenge. Don’t imbibe the defeatist mentality. You have inborn abilities to have dominion in life. You are to defeat challenges, not the other way around. Have the dominion mentality, not the grasshopper mentality. Believe in your abilities.

Look Beyond Your Challenges

Finally, you must see beyond your present predicament. You can only see the silver lining in the cloud of success when you raise your sight above your present situation. Don’t be myopic in your view of problems, take your eyes off your problems and instead look at your abilities. You can attest to the fact that challenges are not forever. For instance, some months or years back you were grappling with some intimidating challenges that seem to sink you but today they have fizzled out even as they appeared. Don’t kill yourself because of your problems they are not worth dying for; rather be optimistic, hopeful, and patient as you do your best believing that you will soon overcome them.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us – Romans 8: 18

Finally, your challenges are not worth dying for, look beyond your challenges then you will see the glorious light at the end of the tunnel. Remember absolute power resides with God. He is the source of the right mentality

Imagine, believe, dare the Impossible