Being an Entrepreneur is one of those gifts we all have access to if we develop our skills in areas of productivity and creativity. As a Holistic Creative Entrepreneur, I have discovered that productivity and creativity are the basic essentials for success in any field of business.
Since we’ve re-established Blue Lotus Living, productivity and creativity have been the focus of everything involved with our business model. Our business model is that of internet publishing (blogging, social networking, link-exchange, digital products…) and with internet publishing you have to be creative and productive on a daily basis.
Yes, here in the blogosphere and cyberworld, you have to utilize productivity and creativity daily because things are constantly changing. Do you know how many times I go to the administration area of our site to find out I need to upgrade a plugin? But this is what entrepreneurs do; we have to stay on top of things. We have to know the latest innovation.
With this in mind, I wanted to share with you today some skills necessary to promote productivity and creativity in your business or career. And let me make it very clear, productivity and creativity is necessary even if you are “hired” by someone else.
Some skills necessary to enhance your productivity and creativity for good business sake are:
1. Innovation
Innovation is not unique to the entrepreneur, but it is most definitely required. Innovation is spawn from the creativity and the execution of one’s witty ideas. It is always good to be an innovator instead of an imitator. Innovation is the ability to use creative energy and channel original ideas which become something unique.
For instance, as I have become more and more involved in the internet publishing or e-publishing industry, I have learned the necessity of innovation. We live in an age of the Global Economy and The Age of Information (an overlapping gumbo of an age you can say). Because information can be transmitted with the touch of a button, we are consuming more information than ever and we are consuming it quickly. Those who are succeeding online are staying on top of ways to meet the demand for information. They are staying on top of ways to get information out quickly, efficiently, and accurately.
And if you don’t think you have great ideas, that doesn’t mean you are not meant to be an entrepreneur. Innovators also know how to capitalize on a great idea. A few moments ago, I told you about how I always have to update my plugins for this site. Well, this site is powered by www.wordpress.com, but many different people have developed the plugins I use for this site. That’s still innovation. I may not have “invented the internet,” but I sure am finding wonderful and innovative ways to use it to promote and establish a luminous and beautiful community and company called Blue Lotus Living.
2. Passion
Few people believe it, but we got to keep saying it. “Do what you love and the money will follow.” I tell you the truth, you will be amazed at the amount of energy you can muster when you are doing what you love. And that energy which will take you so much farther than ambition and drive is called Passion.
It is very difficult to be passionate and enthusiastic about anything you don’t love. Moreover, it is difficult to be productive and creative if you are not passionate about what you are doing. Again, ambition can only take you so far.
Passion puts the intensity in your intentions. Those among us who understand how the Law of Attraction works also know that your intentions are critical to the manifestation process. The intensity behind your intentions are fueled by love and passion. Productivity and creativity follow this passions.
And how can passion be a skill, you might ask? Passion becomes as skill when we use it as vehemence. Vehemence has force as in influence. And in this context of influence we mean the ability to effect something. For this reason, passion is very important in helping you enhance your skills for creativity and productivity.
If you are not passionate about what you are doing, you will not have a passionate staff or passionate subordinates and you most certainly will not have passionate consumers or clients.
For instance, before I left New Orleans, I was told that an associate of mine was stepping down as Executive Director of her Community Based Organization. She had been providing Substance Abuse Counseling services to HIV/AIDS clients for over 14 years. After leaving, she opened a small but elegant Night Club in a more up and coming neighborhood in New Orleans.
She was met with a lot of criticism because people felt she had turned her back on the community. After running into her daughter, a few months after she opened the club, I asked about her. Her daughter said that her mom stepped down because she was tired. She wanted the services to continue but she no longer had the passion for it.
“Mama wants to be around music and laughter at this point in her life. She’s 47 and she has been doing community work and activism since she was 19,” her daughter told me. “She has a new passion now. I wish people would stop dogging her about it. She’s happy.”
I fully understood and I told her daughter to tell my former associate that I wished her well. There is nothing productive nor can anyone be creative if they continue to do a thing they are no longer passionate about. You know longer have influence when you are doing something for which you no longer have the passion to do.
Are there ways to stir up your passion again? Of course there are. Some great ways to stir up your passion are:
- Return to your purpose and intentions. Why did you begin to do the thing you are doing in the first place? Think about how you would feel if you could no longer do it. Ask yourself, if you are resisting some sort of necessary change or transformation which has caused you to lose your passion. Again, this will take you back to purpose.
- Find ways you can make things new and fresh again. Is there something you haven’t tried? Is there something you haven’t tried a different way?
- Associated with others who are interested and passionate about the thing you are doing. Passion can be contagious.
- Walk away for a while and see how you feel before making a drastic decision. We all need a break.
3. Attention and Focus
Some of us have developed a short attention span for everything but what “entertains” us. Developing our ability to focus and pay close attention to what is truly important in our lives has now become an arduous task for many. It has become a task because of the vast number of distractions or “dis-attractions that we have in our lives. The average home in Western cultures has at least 3 televisions. Then you have iPods, cellular phones, 200 Apps on the cell phone, video games, tons of DVDs and CD, computers, and computer games.
When was he last time you sat in a room other than the bathroom quietly for 15 minutes with no television, no phone, no computer, or any other gadgets? Hmm…Can’t remember?
Sometimes in order to get our focus back and to start paying attention to what really matters in life, we need to detoxify from our distractions. Yes, all these things serve their purpose and have become important in the day to day tasks in our lives, but we still have to put all the stuff away at times in order to keep our footing in life. Most importantly, we must pay attention to and remain focused on our vision of purpose in life.
For example, as entrepreneurs we always have to remain focus if we want our business to grow and expand. You have to pay just as much attention to customer and client relations as you do to the bottom line. What good is a top-notch marketing plan if your customer relations suck? What good is customer relations if you have no marketing plan and your business is barely breaking even?
You happen to notice these things when you are focused and paying attention. When you get focused, you get productive. When you pay attention, you are in the present moment. And we all now know that when you are in the present moment, you are in the presence of God or you are in the presence of omniscience and omnipotence. Your most powerful moment is now. As you increase your awareness in the present moment, you tap into the field of infinite possibilities. Here, in this field, there are endless opportunities available to you. By holding the vibration of acute awareness and ever-increasing good, you will draw to you by way of the Law of Attraction, the best opportunity to get the best result no matter what the current situation may be.
Need a marketing plan? It’s available so get focused. Need a better way to relate to your customers or clients? It’s available so get focused. Need a new business concept? It’s available so get focused on it. It’s all available when you become available to it by tapping into the field of infinite intelligence and drawing to you all the resource, opportunities, things, and people you need to conceptualize your desires.
What you don’t pay attention to, you get distracted from or dis-attracted from! What does that mean? Whatever you don’t pay attention to in life is left in a state of default. In other words, you have no influence over or no power to flow energy towards a thing you don’t pay attention to. This means it is left to chance.
For instance, if you don’t pay attention to your children, then you have little influence in advising them on things that could help them succeed in life. When you don’t have influence in your children’s life, then who knows who they are taking advice from. Perhaps, your child is listening to someone who may not have your child’s best interest at heart.
The same is true in the subjective/spiritual realm. Remember, as it states in the Kybalion, “ALL is mind, the universe is mental.” When you do not pay attention or focus in on something, then it is left to be influenced by other mental powers. Yes, this includes your business so pay attention. If you are not focused or paying attention, you may hire the wrong people for a job. You may execute an advertising campaign that isn’t very fruitful. You may launch a product that isn’t ready for market.
When we pay attention, we get full wisdom and knowledge on how to handle things most productively. We also get creative ideas on how we can do things. So, again, pay attention.
4. Imagination and Visualization
Increasing your imagination and visualization skills is crucial for the enhancement of productivity and creativity. Imagination and visualization can be used as tools in business.
When you use your imagination and visualize, creativity flows naturally and without resistance. The flow of creativity then sparks excitement and enthusiasm. When this fire is lit, you become more productive almost spontaneously.
Some of the most effective ways to increase the flow of your imagination and improve the vividness of your visualizations are:
- Journaling about what you would like to see happen in your business in the next year, 5 years, 10 years. Make this a daily activity. As you journal, you are thinking and seeing at the same time. What you are writing down, you are imagining. Be sure to journal in present tense as if the vision you have for your business has already actualized.
- Go on long nature walks. Just going on a 30 minute nature walk sparks the imagination. You will find that nature gives you incredible inspiration that will stir your imagination.
- Meditation as a daily activity. Meditation has a way of clearing the mind of debris and gives you the energy and mental space to imagine and visualize what you truly desire to happen in your business and in your life.
Now, with these skills you will enhance your productivity and creativity as you thrive in life and business as a Holistic Creative Entrepreneur. Furthermore, as you grow in other skills, talents, and abilities as an Entrepreneur, you will find that your productivity and creativity will naturally enhance to meet your growth if you continue to develop these skills.
Yes, Entrepreneurship is a wonderful gift, but as with all gifts, once it is in your hands, it is your job as a co-creator with our loving and abundant universe to make the most of it. Be momentous. During your journey on the path of enlightenment you will gain many gifts and talents along the way, but you must be willing to maintain a progressive state of being. Everything in this universe must grow, multiply, and expand. Anything that stagnates will either disintegrate or die. Digression is death. Expansion and growth is life.
So put the life back into your living and your business or career today.
Blue Lotus Living has been developed as a community and company serving those on the path of enlightenment. The community and company has
been established for those on the path of enlightenment who want to co-create their reality and experience wealth, success, peace, well-being, happiness, joy,
optimal health, and empowering relationships. While Blue Lotus Living is a collaboration between Celebrated Writers, Artists, Visionaries, and Entrepreneurs Carmellita M. Brown and Roslyn J. Randle, it is still a creative
success system designed to help others utilize their creative potential and maximize their gifts and talents.
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