from StuSeeger

Every day this week, I’ll be posting based upon a random Flickr image that inspires me. Here’s one now.

Today is the final day of my random Flickr inspirational posts, and I will sum up the experience this weekend. Until then, I’d like to explain what this photo of a wind farm brings to mind for me.

I’ve always been amazed at the idea of “capturing” something as ethereal as the wind, and then creating something as powerful as electrical energy from it. Not only do I find the concept astonishing, but I can’t help but wonder who first had the idea of harnessing the wind’s power and turning that into electricity. I mean, who would come up with such a thought? Did it just pop into someone’s mind one day…randomly? Did it come to someone in a dream?

How do ideas form? Where do they come from? What processes are at work that create the thoughts we have?

Those are questions I’ll never be able to answer, but I’m not really looking for the answers. What I’m looking to do is to point out the amazing, incredible, wondrous things that can happen when we allow ourselves to get creative with our thoughts. Perhaps you and I will never create the next energy source, or find a cure for cancer, but you and I both have the ability to create.

What we create is up to us. How we take our thoughts and ideas, and apply those to our ebusinesses is also up to us. Each of us has the gift of thought that is unique. The creativity that comes from our thoughts and ideas can transform someone else’s life. Whatever you create, whatever you share, could be instrumental in affecting someone’s life in a positive way. Our thoughts and ideas are ethereal. I don’t know where they come from. But we capture them every day, and like the wind turbines in this photo, we can turn those ethereal thoughts and ideas into something amazing.

Let those creative thoughts flow.

(from Smash Mouth. "AllStar" Astro Lounge. Interscope Records, 1999.)

Posted on February 29th, 2008 by DazzlinDonna
Filed under: Creativity Exercises