Inspirational Mini-course

by Vadim Kotelnikov

Version 2012

Creative Achiever

Follow your heart and intuition. Your passion will lead you to inspiration and completion. That's all you need. Follow you inner direction, not external suggestions. Don't split your energy. By trying to chase many rabbits at once, you'll catch neither. Focus, if you wish to hit the mark, and pursue your true passion, if you wish to be creative. Creativity is your key to a brighter future. Creativity gives you an incredible source of adventure, achievement, self-discovery, connection, spirituality, awakening, self-worth, identity, healing, happiness, energy, and power.

Create a Great Vision

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." ~ Carl Jung

Vision is your ability to foresee the future and create it. Envision the future. It will help you to fast-forward to the destination. Get clear about who it is you want to be. Look into your heart to discover what you really want to achieve in your life. Keep stretch in your vision and combine it with a good strategy. Success and achievements result from both high-level thinking about issues of vision, as well as more detailed, step-by-step planning about how to achieve that vision.

Be creative!

“If you want to succeed, you have to forge new paths and avoid borrowed ones,” advised John Rockefeller. To motivate yourself, imagine your two alternative lives: If you don’t create new things, where will you be in five years? If you keep creating new things, where will you be?

Your life has a lot of interesting you can leverage, shape into your story and become a star. What can you do right now to act more like a creative person you wish to be and get closer to your inspiring vision? Find an accountability partner who will make you want to rebel, advance, and succeed.

Grow the Action and Experimentation Habit

Don’t wait until conditions are perfect – they never will. The best time to start is now! If you have a good idea you really believe in, act on it. Unless you take action nothing will happen by itself. Take the first step even if you don’t see the whole path. "Don’t be afraid of the trial-and-error approach," advised Estee Lauder.

Do a lot of experiments and learn from feedback. Feedback is the foundation of success. Be a flexible thinker. If things go wrong analyze the feedback you get and decide what you can do differently for a better result next time. Keep also your eyes open for new opportunities that will inevitably emerge as soon as you start experimentations. The more experiments you make the better.

The possibilities are numerous once you decide to act and learn from feedback. Achievement-oriented people like to monitor improvements made. Track your progress, celebrate every small victory, and proceed rapidly to the next one.