Beginning To Think CreativelyWritten by Etienne A. Gibbs, MSW, Management Consultant and Trainer
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"I'm surprised at you," replied teacher, "Yesterday I did same exercise with a group of kindergartners, and they thought of fifty different things chalk mark could be: * a cat's eye, * a cigar butt, * a star, * a pebble, * a squashed bug, * a rotten egg, * a head, * and so on. The lesson that I wish to share with you is importance of looking for more than one right answer. When you look, you will be surprised to learn how many answers are available. We have been trained in school to look only for first right answer to every problem. The average person does this; creative person looks for many. Looking beyond first solution to a problem can result in a whole new set of serendipitous solutions - solutions that can be a hundred times better than first one. Remember: When you maximize your potential, everyone wins. When you don't, we all lose.
Etienne A. Gibbs, MSW, Management Consultant and Trainer, conducts seminars, lectures, and writes articles on his theme: "... helping you maximize your potential." For more information go to www.maximizingyourpotential.blogspot.com, or email him at eagibbs@ureach.com.
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This is where other key word appears—"Kenosis." It is a word used to speak of how Jesus emptied himself. But when Jesus emptied himself to enter our world as human, he was acting and loving out of dance of Holy Trinity. So incarnation offers us a mysterious and astonishing vision—the Holy Trinity as a dancing community of divine poverty. Each eternally, joyfully, disposing themselves; emptying, pouring themselves out to favor and glory of other. Nothing claimed, demanded or grasped. They live and know each other in simple ecstasy of giving. We are invited to participate in this dance. There are accounts in early Christian writings of churches expressing their prayer through dance. God’s desire from before all time has been to draw us into His dance. So put your dancing shoes on and grab your partner. He is one with nail scared feet and hands. Don’t under estimate His dance steps. I assure you,He can "cut a rug." He’s doing it now with Father and Holy Spirit! (Sources cited are available)
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