Most of us associate creative thought with authors, musicians and inventors. Yes, these people use creative thought to write novels, compose symphonies, visualize new products and develop break-thru technologies, but if you think creative thought is only available to artists and inventors you limit your ability to use it in your life.
Let’s consider two examples. The first is Michelangelo, the 15th century Italian painter and sculptor. One of his most famous works is the Sistine Chapel ceiling. This epic fresco painting covers the entire ceiling and depicts scenes from the Book of Genesis, the prophets and the ancestors of Christ.
The second example is Fred Johnson from Bay City, Michigan. For the last fifteen years, Fred worked on the assembly line in the General Motors factory but was recently laid-off.
If your first thought is “What can these two people possibly have in common?” let’s review the point made earlier.
If you think creative thought is only available to artists and inventors you limit your ability to use it in your life.
Let’s start by considering what these two have in common rather than how they’re different. They’re both human beings with a functional brain. They both have the ability to think. They both have the ability to imagine. They both have the ability to visualize.
When Michelangelo first walked into the Sistine Chapel, there was nothing on the ceiling. Because he had the ability to think, he began to imagine and visualize what he wanted that ceiling to become. He then spent the next four years manifesting that vision. What would that ceiling look like today if Michelangelo’s thoughts were anything like this?
- “This is too much for me.”
- “I’ve never done anything like this before.”
- “I don’t see how I can do it.”
If that’s what he thought, he never would have painted the ceiling!
Fast forward a few centuries to Fred in the weeks following his lay-off. He had spent the last fifteen years doing the same job. He began to expect he would retire from GM. He has a wife and three children. He has a mortgage payment, car payment and credit card debt. He has to work to pay his bills. He wants to work, but GM had to cut expenses.
He doesn’t know what to do. He realizes he needs to do something different, but all of his work experience has been on that assembly line. What type of future do you suppose Fred will create if his thoughts are anything like this?
- “This is too much for me.”
- “I’ve never done anything like this before.”
- “I don’t see how I can do it.”
The more Fred thinks like this, the less likely he is to ever find a solution for his problem. He may not realize it, but ...
- He can choose what he thinks about.
- He can choose what he focuses on.
- He can choose what his vision of the future looks like.
All of us have this same ability.
We can choose our future by choosing our thoughts today.
Creative thought begins when we ask ourselves, “How can I do this?”
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