Paul and his wife, Glenys have just finished moving into a beautiful new dream home that they have built. It was first time that I had seen it, and after showing me through house we went outside and looked out over their land. Paul pointed out where large spa pool would be, and how there would be a lake over there, where Monet bridge would be, and how paths would be laid out.

I recalled how when we had last met, almost a year before, Paul told me that they had found a piece of land and bought it, and they were going to build their new dream home, a Quaker barn on it. He had described to me how it would look, what it would be made of, and especially how his new workshop would be laid out, and now he had just shown me through actual completed building.

It reminded me of something I first heard from Jim Rohn, many years ago. Jim said something to effect that humans were only species that could start something after it was finished. What did he mean by that? He meant that we could completely build something in our mind before we started physically building it.

Don't deny it. Whether or not you consider yourself a creative type, truth is that you are constantly creating ideas.

Mindfulness invites you to be aware of this constantly flowing river, and offers an opportunity to choose to sit beside it instead of swimming in it. By watching ideas from that calm riverbank, you can more clearly see ones that float to top and sparkle in sun.

But mindfulness is more than just mind watching mind. When we are engaged in process of creating--whether that's words, numbers, music, art, or movement--without getting swept up in concept of where it might be leading, that is a very pure form of mindfulness.

If creating is mindfulness in action, little push that gets things moving is thrill of discovery. As humans, we are fascinated by novelty, and we are pulled by our joy of seeing something in a new light.

Mindfulness allows us to approach world with childlike wonder, to play with new concepts, and to see things from a shifted perspective. You can't always engage in new activities, but through mindfulness, you can look at same-old same-old with fresh eyes.

The Wow of Wonder is what stimulates us to be creative. Without it, we are likely to come down with our culture's most prevalent malady--mindlessness. Mindlessness causes us to move through life without really connecting to any of it. It's living on auto-pilot. It's living without wonder--or fun.