HOW TO BE A CREATIVE THINKER

How To Be a Creative Thinker
by Gary Fellers
Pelican Publishers Company Inc.
1996
100 pgs

Discover the power of your subconscious and how to enrich it in order to get optimum results from its creative powers. Also learn how you can feed your subconscious and incubate ideas. The author posits that creative people associates their present work with their life's purpose. ''A creative person is medium from higher power,...knowing your life's purpose and having seen 'the future', your subconscious will see to it that  you gain all correct enrichment - by being at the right places at the right time. He says.'' When I meet creative, thriving superstars I am amazed at how surprised they become when other s make a big deal about their accomplishments. To them, serving their life's purpose through their job efforts seems to be natural and fun. If a task is enjoyable to you, you may be creative at it. If it's not, you probably won't''
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DON'T TRY TO FILL THE SHOES OF ANY GREAT MAN. GO GET YOUR OWN SHOES

By Matthew Ujah-Peter 
 

The truth is that every great man 's shoes are as unique to him as his finger prints.  If you're trying to fill any shoes then you're trying to loose your identity and miss your destiny. When the late Mandela died people were asking, ''who will take the place of Mandela?'',  ''who will fill his shoes?'' But such thinking and idea don't always sit well with me. I listened with keen interest as respected public analysts were being interviewed and asked to offer their opinions on the life and time of the late Nelson Mandela Vis-à-vis  ''the place he left'' as far as Africa leadership was concerned. Many were saying ''there can't be another Mandela.'' They were saying that there can't be another leader like the late Nelson Mandela and at the same time admonishing that African leaders should aspire to be another Mandela or be like Mandela. Such wisdom coming from respected public figures and analysts worried me. But those of them who had advised that African leaders should emulate Mandela's virtues or be challenged by his achievements, sounded better to me

Did Mandela try to or fill another person's shoes? Did Martin Luther King Jr. filled someone else's shoes? Did Winston Churchill or Mother Teresa? Well, positions can be filled, but personalities can't be filled by another personalities. When personalities are gone, their works perpetuate them. When Thabo Mbeki took over the position of the President from the late Nelson Mandela, he remained Thabo Mbeki and Mandela remained Mandela. Nor was it the position of the President of South Africa that made Nelson Mandela the Mandela the whole world know.

It's said that  money amplifies the character of its possessor. So does position. Position will serve to provide the platform and the opportunity for leadership. You don't become a leader with position. Your leadership capacity only get you exposed by the position you are opportune to have. In the same way that a person doesn't become a good man just by having money. Money only reveals the true character of the man. There were many individuals with better influence, money and even political connections in Calcutta, India,  in the days of Mother Teresa. But non had the heart and the will that she had. There were many with influence and affluence than the late Nelson Mandela during apartheid South Africa, but not the drive and audacity of Mandela. Non was concerned about posterity like Dr. Martins Luther King Jr. in his days as to stick out his neck like he did.

Personalities can be imitated or emulated but not replaced. Every one's got his/her own mission. Everyone's got his/her own race to run. Wearing or filling another man's shoes is a grave impediment to the race. Mandela was a child of his time. Mother Teresa was a child of her time, so was Martin Luther King Jr., and so are you and I. Everyone's shoes are meant for the race peculiar and particular to him/her. Don't look for shoes to fill. Go get yours.

LESSON FROM BOB G. ALLEN'S MULTIPLE STREAMS OF INCOME

1.VALUE MONEY - every single penny that comes to you must be valued. Be penny wise, pound worth. Spend more times bargaining and buy things whole sales when possible, so as to create surplus for saving.

2. CONTROL MONEY - every money that come to you must be accounted for. Make budget for all expenses. All your income is divided into ten places. Buy things such as food stuffs in bulk and in dozen, once every month.

3. SAVE MONEY - 10% for God, 10% for your saving. The remainder must be accounted for.  
Ways to save: 
Plan for what you need to do in three months ahead.
Have every day of Jan-Dec on your wall  marked and planned for.
Let birthdays, weddings, seminars, etc, be planned for.
Food stuffs must be bought monthly.
Shop with list and stick to it.
Never buy what you can use only a short time, rather rent it.
Never rent what you will use for a long time, rather buy it.
Don't buy things that adds no values to life.
Do yourself, anything that save time and money.
Do not do yourself anything that waste time and money.
Get a ''piggy bank'' or jar account  so you can pay yourself always.
Every gifts given you in cash must be invested.
Every excess cash from discounts or reduced price, excess profit, etc must be saved and invested.

4. INVEST MONEY -  you have now saved your 10% and surpluses and gifts. on daily bases, put those savings into your jar or piggy bank. On a monthly or bi-monthly bases put those saved money into your investment savings account. Then put your investment savings into real investments.
How to Invest:
Stocks, shares, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, Forex. Build business that can work without your involvement for 12 months. Be involved in causes you believe in financially and otherwise.

5. LEAVE A LEGACY - YOUR PURPOSE FOR MAKING MONEY IS TO FULFILL YOUR DESTINY. SET UP STRUCTURES, FIRMS AND SYSTEMS THAT WILL HELP YOU DO THAT.
How to Leave a Legacy :
Set up a foundation, outreach or charityi organisation or
Join or identify with one.
Teach younger people what you have learned from life
Adopt a school you can help with some form of donation or the other
Write a book
Etc.