While the sun does his dance into the sea, benefit from the final moments of each day.
to enjoy the sun's play.Find a place to watch for an evening
Robert Louis Stephenson wrote, "There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. Happiness does not need to become the goal. We need a variety of experiences and moods to write about."
While the sun does his dance into the sea, benefit from the final moments of each day.
to enjoy the sun's play.Find a place to watch for an evening
Find a place that excites a sense of wonder.
Awaken imagination to wing and wander.
Place your fussy mind in a top drawer.
Hear the closing click.
Hang a favorite and weighty item.
You don’t need a key.
Listen for the jostling and grumbling inside.
Say, “STAY!”
Put on your happy shoes and saunter out the door.
Let nature intrigue with its delights.
Trees will soon shed their leaves but evergreens prevail.
Feel grateful release from mind tendrils.
Go into your heart for sensory experiences.
Discover your neighborhood: a lingering rose, fresh earth, a gush of wind.
Breathe a drift of lavender. Hear a phoebe or crow’s call.
Wander until you have forgotten your mind.
Just take your time. No need to rush.
Energize the spirit and play.
When you return, open the drawer
to a renewal of friendship.
Take out your fountain pen and write on and on. Send a letter to a friend.
 Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it. – Sai Baba  Take an evening stroll. Observe nature’s offerings.   Discover what frames the earth’s waterway.  Seagulls send messages. Listen to the calm.  The great ball of fire will take time to ease Notice scents of evening in rainbow hues.  The sun’s tangerine reflects ideas. You may see an instant of green. Let Gratitude release for another day.  |
“Gaining access to that interior life is a kind of . . . archaeology: on the basis of some information and a little bit of guesswork, you journey to a site to see what remains and what’s left behind and you reconstruct the world.” – Toni Morrison
What matters the most in your life?
Answers to that question alter as you grow and mature with experiences and in thinking about choices. During a lifetime, we return to aspects of life that matter the most.
Think of an incident that shaped the way you view your life? Was a hidden gift there, or a lesson you’ve carried forward?
Did you make a choice in the moment that benefitted your future? Could you have gone a different direction and altered where you reside in life today?
Recall an incident where you felt a real or perceived disadvantage of life. In reflection, would you change the results?
Consider a choice you did not make or one that was made for you because of procrastination or indecision. How would you rewrite it from a third person perspective?
Do you have unfinished business in an area of life?
How would you define the mosaics of your life?
The scent of jasmine, a poppy opening, smile from a stranger, or the expression of someone we love vaults us to elation, awe, and wonder.
Everyone has a deep friend and something that they love to do, a beloved and a craft. – Rumi
Coleman Banks speaks of friendship, “However it might be in this violent world, I would rather see us walking along inside the mystery of friendship, with its soul fury and its kindness, to sit down together finally at the table that Rumi, and many others, have set.”
Of the things that wisdom provides the greatest is the possession of friendship - Epicurus
Reach out to a friend today.
Send a note to someone who has inspired you because of Friendship. Share the story with them.
Write to a friend to resolve concerns.
Reconnect with someone with whom you may have lost connection over the years.
It takes patience, perspective and perseverance to sort out the news and waltz beyond worry.
Take time to skip looking at the catastrophe network or reading headlines for a day.
Push away from the computer. Leave your cell phone. Find hearts in shadows.
Go out in the morning and Sing!
Immerse yourself in nature.
Take a walk and replace negative thoughts and frustrations with the scents and colors that pass along the way.
Ask questions. What does a peregrine or bee manage an obstacle?
Listen for different sounds.
Observe shapes and textures.
Imagine clouds with anxiety. Will the release of rain help?
Marvel at the ways the sea rants in ripples.
Distractions move the mind back to the present moment.
Rocks let the sea and sky pass over, under, around, and through.
Let nature’s wisdom seep into your thoughts and actions.
See smiles in petals.
Breathe in the majesty.
Find Power in Positivity.
My search rushes to complete the triad in times of “not-sos.” After two events happen to friends in a span of three days, I sift through the August week to find that third leg.
Just sliding in a mishap does not close the gap. The solution will not satisfy if I try to manufacture something to set up a wobbly, far-fetched leg that completes the action.
Relenting to my morning run, the breeze focuses my breath. Under the curb at the sidewalk, a seagull spreads all its feathers. “It’s just sleeping,” my father used to say, to protect me.
Now the monarch butterflies zig and flip outside my window. Just out of the chrysalis, they dry their newly-found wings, my first side of the next triad to measure the day’s good.
John Lennon said he wrote the song, “Because” by playing Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” backwards.
Questions to ignite team creativity discover ways to attach/combine other objects to an item to give it a new use.
How does the shape of the item resemble other common shapes? The exercise encourages team members to free their minds so they might run into an amazement.
The University of Nevada Innevation Center, intentionally spells innevation to take the “no” out of innovation.
The interdisciplinary approach at the University of Oregon melds different backgrounds. At the College of Design, students learn about materials, the manufacturing process, design influences, and entrepreneurship. They discover how creativity is enhanced by acquiring interdisciplinary knowledge, making connections that are not obvious, and by applying these strategies to navigate around constraints.
Professors in product design say, “If the round hole is bigger, the square peg might fit. We want to develop people who are inspired by constraints.”
Consider a creative strategy for today.
What could you do in reverse to develop a novelty or new product?
Invert an approach to study new ways of doing things.
Is there an idea to turn upside-down or inside-out to awaken a new perspective?
Ask how nature might solve it?
Approach the day in myriad ways.
Playfulness and humor become the starting points to launch creativity.
