Holding the Visual Until Life Links You Up

More and more I am seeing the value of the visual.  Whether you dream it, you watch it, you imagine or you draw it, what you see in your mind and in your world becomes your reality.

I'm not making this up, your brain is.  That's right, your brain sees in two dimensions because of the optic nerve, but we live in a three dimensional world.  What does your brain do to compensate?  It makes it up.  It's fact that part of what you see is fiction.

Why not leverage that piece of brain science to your advantage?  Next time you want to be someone or somewhere else in your life, make it up using that innate tool of creative genius -  your imagination.  Envision it thoroughly as if you are right there, right now looking out through your own eyes experiencing it.  Make  it vivid.  Paint it with emotion. Lock it into memory.

Then do EVERYTHING you can to take action towards that vision to make it real.  Dream it everyday and be grateful for every small or large movement in that direction. Celebrate that movement.

Surprise yourself at how quickly your inner and outer imaginings can become reality.
Not through hocus pocus but through leveraging your own brain.  Curious?  Don't take my word for it.  Experiment on your own.

Hold that visual until life links you to it.

Female Creative Genius: Promote These Women

There are millions of creative women geniuses out there.  (Why can't I find them on Google?)

Never mind!

  

Here are five for you to start promoting today:

Natalie Jeremijenko

Angela Blanchard

Neri Oxman

Rachel Armstrong

Anna Halprin 

Lots of talk about creative genius now that Steve Jobs has transitioned out of this world.
Who are other creative geniuses you find on Google? Sadly what comes up are mostly :( men.

Which woman showed up?
Madame Curie - the science of radioactivity.

One book dedicated to female creative genius, notice how this author describes them:


Mary Kay Ash -- A Confident Charismatic
Maria Callas -- Perpetual Perfectionist
Liz Claiborne -- Persevering Pioneer
Jane Fonda -- Renegade Innovator
Estée Lauder -- Impatient Overachiever
Madonna -- Psychosexually Drive
Golda Meir -- Intransigent Confidence
Ayn Rand -- Macro-oriented Intuitor
Gloria Steinem -- Rebellious Social Conscience
Margaret Thatcher -- Indomitably Competitive
Lillian Vernon -- Internally Empowered Entrepreneur
Linda Wachner -- "Type A" Workaholic
Oprah Winfrey -- Persuasive Charismatic

Are you kidding me? Dude, get a life!

If you haven't set up your TIVO to record Miss Representation do it now.

Who run the world?  Girls.  Send me your female creative geniuses!

Letting Your Brain Fill in the Gap

Those of you who like to revisit your goals might consider this idea:

When you have captured on a piece of page where you are now (on the left side of your page) and where you want to be 1 year from today (on the right side of the page) you can see the gap between the two.

That's where your bold steps or action steps go.  Unfortunately sometimes this is exactly where you and I can get stuck.  Why?  Because it looks a little daunting.  Also the critical part of our brain likes to get in the way and say things like, "If you knew how to do that, you would have done it already!"  or  "That seems too overwhelming, you better go get something to eat..."

BUT did you know, that when you are picking up a glass of water, there is a spot in that process where your brain actually fills in the gap.  Yup, it can't exactly see the whole thing, so it just makes it up and sends that made up solution to the parts of you that move and grab the glass.

If your brain can make up something to fill that kind of gap, why not let your brain make up the steps for your action plan?  It knows what you need to do because it processes a billion more things than you can ever consciously remember.

Try an experiment!  Next time you want to create a plan to get you from where you are now to where you want to be, why not write, "What are the boldest things I can do to get myself from here to there?" on the top of a blank piece of paper.  Then start writing whatever comes to you.

Or write the first 100 things that come to you (including some really ridiculous ones for fun.  1 out of that 100 things is bound to be a good action to take.

The truth is, you do know how to get across that chasm, you just need to let your brain do the work for you.