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VISIONS OF SUCCESS Rethinkers use vision to discover essence of extraordinary success. On the evening of October 4, 2000 twelve Rethinkers gathered to attend RETHINK's first Creativity in Life and Work Forum. They represented diverse businesses and professions. By the conclusion of the Forum, their diversity contributed significantly to creating extraordinary visions of life-work success. A welcome reception and dinner, and an emotion-stirring presentation by writer, speaker, and innovative marketing expert Tom Asacker launched the Forum. Rethinker Len Marchese facilitated the next two days of discovery and creativity. Sharing a goal of being more creative to meet challenges and succeed in life and work, the Rethinkers painted, colored, cut and pasted, and configured their vision of success. As each Rethinker presented their vision, the essence of extraordinary success emerged as -- significance, freedom, responsibility, family, universality, simplicity, harmony, connecting, balance, creativity, empathy, and spirituality. IDEAS FOR YOU, ME, AND US Creative enlightening dazzled many times throughout the course of the Forum. Idea baskets filled. Several shared life-work challenges surfaced, from which self-talk was selected as the most trying threat to success. Rethinkers reviewed an electronic space called rethinktank.com. Diversity led to ideas, that led to innovation, that led to freeing camaraderie and clearing pathways of barriers to success in life and work. Time
to let things "gel" produced some of the funniest and scariest faces
on pumpkins, and the happiest faces on Rethinkers. The seeds were
good too! HURDLES AND HIGH-JUMPS Characterizing a vision is easier than living it. Things just seem to get in the way every day. The group was not at a loss for identifying obstacles, such as inertia, stress, time, money, self, chaos, prejudice, confusion, blaming, conformity, resistance, health, agendas, rules, boundaries, competition and commitments. Energized by their vision, the Rethinkers surmounted obstacles blocking their success. As they acknowledged hurdles to fulfilling their vision, they also claimed victory over those they already cleared. A sense of renewed freedom filled the meeting space with joy and vitality.
To meet the challenge of defeating self-talk the Rethinkers applied creative thinking to find new combinations and relationships for life-work harmony. The randomly selected words love and thunder were characterized. From the characterization evolved new combinations leading to co-evolve new roots. And a new relationship formed -- interacting with another to free yourself to succeed.
The extraordinary photos and stirring words of Dewitt Jones, in the video Everyday Creativity, inspired reflection and creativity as the Rethinkers embarked on a photographic journey. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what awaited discovery at Basin Harbor Club held chapters of tradition and enlightenment. Rethinkers collaborated, contorted, and cheered as they scurried to capture their vision-photo. A spinning gazebo, garden pathways, rainbow chairs, sky bound canoes, emerging pleasant outlooks, resting rowboats, a "handy" clean slate, and a stairway to ________ were just some of the creative representations.
Creativity flourishes among two or more. Let the energy flow. Pass it on. |
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