Last month I mentioned that it was an exciting time to be alive.  However after watching Richard Attenborough's "State of the Planet" on TV, I must admit it also a very alarming time for those of us who care about the environment. The irony of the dilemma is that we are just beginning to fully understand the 
building blocks of nature at a time when there is 
unprecedented environmental destruction. 

We are running out of time to save the planet from becoming a desolate wreck of a place for our grandchildren to live in. That's assuming it will still support life ..

The insatiable demands of an ever increasing world population, multi-national companies hell-bent on profit and politicians without vision will see the Earth depleted of it's variety of plants and animals that took hundreds of millions of years to evolve. All within the space of a few decades! 

This instant destruction in the geological time scale of our planet, is as powerful as a giant asteroid hitting the earth. The effects of global warming have already unleashed the forces of nature around the world, with floods, hurricanes, fires, droughts and loss of life. Rising sea levels will see the destruction of many coastal environments during this century. 

We need our governments to recognize the urgency 
of the situation and demand that an exceptional 
global effort be made to halt the environmental 
destruction. 

The first important step will be to stop further 
population growth.  This will ensure that demand on resources will not increase further. This places extreme demands on all leaders both religious and political to give strong guidance in matters of family planning. 

The second step is to place a world ban on logging of all old growth forests. Timber should be only harvested from existing sustainable plantations. Replanting of the land with native species must follow in an attempt to reverse the rate of extinction and re-establish the natural balance of things.

The continued burning of fossil fuels must be 
drastically reduced in favour of alternatives such as solar, wind and tidal power. The proponents of New technologies such as fusion reactors must be encouraged to hasten their efforts in bringing this replacement source of power to reality.

The internet community can help educate and unite people through communication. It is one of the keys to our survival as a species.

I have never been a "Greenie" but now I am beginning to realize the important work that these people are doing. The least we can do is give them our support, if not join their protests.  Only when enough of us protest, the rest of the world will join hands to demand environmental rights.

Dr John K. Flynn
The Xerostar Times Editor
"Caring for creative people"
 

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Robert daydreamed so much that he was put out of school. Frank went into such trancelike dreams that one had to shout at him to bring him back. Equally problematic were Sam's restlessness and verbal diatribes. Virginia, too, demonstrated a tendency to talk on and on. Thomas experienced school problems, in part because of his high energy.  Nick's tendency to act without thinking caused him to have several scrapes with death and near-tragedies, such as plunging to the earth from the roof of a barn, clutching an umbrella. In these examples we can see how the concentration, high energy, and unique ways of thinking and behaving that were exemplified by Robert Frost, Frank Lloyd Wright, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Tesla resulted in school problems, dark diagnoses, or worse. 

These are examples of creative individuals whose behavior could also be interpreted as inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

The stories of creative individuals are replete with instances of childhood problems in school (Piirto, 1992; Thompson, 1971; West, 1991). Although it has been argued that many creative individuals have suffered from mood disorders and other clinically significant psychological problems (Hershman & Lieb, 1988; Jamison, 1993), there are others whose behavior, although irregular, may be more indicative of their creativity than of any disorders. In the case of Janet Frame, New Zealand's poet and novelist, her "difference" resulted in a diagnosis of schizophrenia, confinement to a mental institution, and the scheduling of a lobotomy that was only canceled when her first novel gained widespread distinction (Frame, 1984, pp. 110-111). In some cases the very qualities that cause creative individuals to have problems are the same ones that may facilitate in their creative accomplishments. Edison's energy, the vivid imagery in the daydreams of Frost and Wright, and Einstein's alternative mode of thinking created problems for them in school, but were undoubtedly invaluable in their creative endeavors.
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Imagine yourself 20 years old. About as far back as you can remember, you've had Internet access and you've lived in an economic expansion. The only war you've experienced fought on television, The Gulf War, Kosovo. You're two years into college and 
you're trying to decide what major to pursue. You like the arts, especially computer graphics, but you're not crazy about the idea of reporting to a middle manager in a corporation. 

You're considering taking in internship at a web design company, but that would be a temporary move. You really want to create an Internet startup, a company that can give creative people like yourself an opportunity to work together and develop new Web-based products and services. Ultimately, you don't want to develop great web business applications.

You want to create a business rooted in creativity. In your grandparent's day, the main business rule was: big beats small. In your parents' day it evolved to: fast beast small. But in your day, the mantra has become: creative beats static. It doesn't matter how fast you move if you're not continually recreating your products and services to meet your customers' needs. Your generation is quickly learning that speed doesn't matter if you're speeding up the wrong thing. In fact, a high velocity of change in a company can a mask a poorly considered direction, right up to the moment of deadly impact.

You want to work in a squishy environment, like the Web firm in San Francisco where you serve as an intern. The space began life as an edgy restaurant. When the Web group moved in, they kept much of the layout intact, with its open workspaces, high balcony and a bar in the center of the large open floor area. The bar remains stocked with beer that goes with the pizza that's free for all of the designers and engineers who work through the night and go home for a few hours sleep at dawn.

Is this the Paris of Hemingway? Is it the North Beach of Kerouac and Ginsberg? Now, instead of writing novels and poetry, these agents of change are creating businesses.

You want to work where business applications can be designed with all of the intensity and diagonal thinking of a design team. You want to live with a creative team day and night, pouring over ideas, 
examining every chunk of new technology for concepts, peeking into the corners of dozens of corporations looking for an opportunity to make a creative improvement. Is there a market for Internet squish-training, delivered through video format? Do companies need multimedia interactive network templates to create weekly vision meetings that bring hundreds of home workers into the buzz?

What do consumers need to improve their lives? What do corporations need to squeeze even greater efficiencies out of their supply chains? Is there a need for culturally specific recruitment packages so companies can hire armies of engineers in India? Maybe you could create an idea lab that develops business concepts for software and middleware companies based on emerging technology.

Whatever your choose, your life will be different from your parents, powerfully different. Over the course of your life, the boundaries between countries will start to blur as vertical markets and niche interests become more important than geography. Creativity is already growing in importance as a prized quality in a business, especially conceptual creativity as a flood of Net-based applications crave form. Borders between corporations are going fuzzy as affiliations, competition, collaboration and seamless integration bring companies into shared space.

In the 1800s, the major creative forces was the novel. In the 1900s, photography, film and rock music took center-stage, absorbing the greatest artistic talent from each generation. In the 2000s, it may be 
business that draws on each generation's creativity. In the past, creative people have shunned business, since systematic control was essential to profitability. Control is no longer the byword of business. Innovation is. In your future, free spirits may find that business development is the ultimate canvass for creatively altering the world.

Rob Spiegel is the author of The Shoestring Entrepreneur's Guide to the Best Home-Based Businesses (St. Martin's Press) and The 
Complete Guide to Home Business (AMACOM Books). 

You can reach Rob Spiegel at spiegelrob@aol.com.
 

One of the greatest gifts provided to us by the Universe is the gift of creation. Unfortunately, for too many it is a gift that is often left unopened. We are creatures of habits and routines, and while I'll be the first to admit routines and habits do serve a worthwhile purpose in life they can, if overdone, stifle our creativity.

How many people create their day? If the question itself sounds strange, then it's likely you've not opened your gift of creativity lately. If your morning 'routine' has you on auto-pilot from the moment you rise until you arrive at work, at which time your work routine takes over, then it's time to break out of the rut of those routines.

A simple and fun way to do this is to create special moments throughout your day that interrupt the 'rut routines' we all fall into from time to time. For example, one of my routines is to sit at my desk for hours at the time on the phone with my coaching clients. While I love my work, even coaching people in their life purpose can take on the mood of a routine.

So, I've started creating special moments throughout the day. Here are some of the actions I've taken to keep my work fresh, alive and engaging:

1) Since I love candles, I keep 2-3 of them on my desk. Prior to a coaching call I often light one to remind me to shine my light of purpose into my clients life.

2) I also keep 2-3 of my favorite music CDs on my desk and play one in the background either prior to a coaching call or during the call. It helps to sooth me and keep me in a space of spiritual serenity.

3) I've created a new office outdoors. When my wife bought me a hammock for my 50th birthday, I put it up out side my office windows and turned it into a "peaceful place on purpose." I often take coaching calls from there, as well as using it for pure relaxation.

What actions could you take this week to create special moments to interrupt your regular routine. Whatever you come up with that's how to turn this thought provoker into action.

ACTION
This week, identify at least 3 places where you're stuck in a 'routine rut,' then come up with at least 3 different actions your could take in each area to break out. See if you can incorporate those 9 actions into your life before the end of the week.

W. Bradford Swift is director of Life On Purpose Institute, an organization dedicated to people clarifying their life purpose and living true to it.
He may be contacted by email: brad@lifeonpurpose.com
 

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