Bill Gates

One of the main coaching areas for my clients are building their lives around their core values. Values like justice, creating relationships, family time, creativity, etc. do not do well when they are ignored or pushed to the back burner.

It has been an interesting study of visible people and their successes. When Bill Gates spoke at the TED conference this year, I realized that his core values must be around enabling the masses: Influencing massive amounts of people. He created a company that wants to put computers in every home and now, his philanthropic work is geared towards eradicating childhood diseases that cause high infant mortality in third world countries.

Bill Gates

Many lovely coaching points in this video. He says, “There is no tough problem that does not have a solution.” I love it.

How has your business success helped you be creative in other areas of your life?

The Creative Muse

I am a huge fan of TED Talks. I love the mix of intellectualism and creativity. Truly, it is thrilling so watch and listen to great minds.

I was working on an article on Creativity and I found this clip by Elizabeth Gilbert who wrote Eat, Love, Pray. I loved her description of the creative process. What blew me away is that I have always felt that opening yourself up to creativity is opening yourself up to the God, Divinity, Divine Intelligence, Source – essentially, the Spiritual Component.

Eat, Pray, Love was one of the books that changed my life. I could relate to the author as searching for something greater than her and it took her to the far flung corners of the earth just to find her own self. This is what happens when you become dissatisfied with all the outer trappings of success.

In my research I discovered that the word “genius” has its roots in spiritual guidance. Think of the word “genie.”

All this research is rather incredible to me as I admire the unfolding of my next offering around awakening your creativity and personal brilliance.

Elizabeth Gilbert

What did you think? Some people feel that creativity has no spiritual component to it. Is that true? What is your creative process? Please leave me comments and let me know.

Thanks

Amy Tan on Creativity

Here is a video of Amy Tan, the Chinese American writer at the TED Conference. I was intrigued by her understanding of her creativity and how deeply entrenched her creative attributes are in her culture.

Amy Tan