10 keys to ongoing creativity
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1. Purpose
Purpose can be built, strengthened, and made more inspiring everyday. We are totally responsible for our own sense of purpose. – Steve Chandler
2. Challenge
…it is up to you to constantly look for challenges to motivate yourself with. And it’s up to you to notice when you’re buried alive in a comfort zone. – Steve Chandler
3. Discomfort
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements. – Orison Swett Marden
4. Structure
Be regular and ordinary in your habits, like a Petit Bourgeois, so you may be violent and original in your work. – Flaubert via Richard Bausch
5. Attention
To control attention means to control experience, and therefore quality of life. Information reaches consciousness only when we attend to it. Attention acts as a filter between outside events and our experience of them. – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
6. Space
Guard your freedom and your space. You will need it. – Ann Beattie
7. Readiness
Be open for business, all the time. You must try to be that person on whom nothing is lost. – Richard Bausch
8. Consistency
Your only worry for yourself should be did I work today? – Richard Bausch
9. Action
Stop worrying about what you think of yourself and start building a track record that proves that you can motivate yourself to do whatever you want to do. – Steve Chandler
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10. Confidence
No one will insist upon your rights while you yourself doubt that you have any. Believe you were made for the place you fill. Put forth your whole energies. Be awake, electrify yourself; go forth to the task. – Orison Swett Marden
