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Value Creation

Success:

Earl Nightingale defines success as, “the progressive realization of a worthy ideal”.  

[Source: ‘The Strangest Secret in the world’, 1950.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yOsQHlH9k8].  

Any person that works continually towards a predetermined goal, and achieves it, is considered a successful person.  Simply put, Success can be judged, based upon achievement of your goals.

Examples:

• A person, who is obese, sets a specific goal to lose weight and become healthy.  He starts eating healthier foods, exercises regularly, and in a few weeks time, looks fit and healthy.  He has achieved his goal, and hence he is considered successful. 
• A stock broker buys his dream home that he aimed for, from the money he made using trading, he is considered successful.

Undoubtedly, success is important and in more ways necessary to survive and stay motivated.  In the above examples however, have these ‘successful people’ contributed anything valuable to the world?

Value Creation:

Value creation on the other hand, is all about one’s contribution to the world.  It is about making the positive difference for the others.  The people who have the most influence on our lives, the people who have changed the way we think, our outlook towards the world, and changed the way we live, for the better, are the people of value rather than people of success. 

Let us consider one of the above examples here:

• The person, who suffered from obesity, chose to take actions to lose weight, and live a healthier lifestyle; he achieved his goal, and became a success story. 
• Soon, he realizes that there are lots of people out there who are suffering from the same problem, and he knows he can help resolve this problem, because he has had the first-hand experience of it. 
• He designs and conducts a workshop, writes extensively about his journey to a healthier lifestyle, and shares all his experiences.  People take-in his advice, work the plan and they become successful too.  With this, he has contributed something positive.  He has helped people think and lead a better and healthier life.  He has created value.

  

Value Creation and Success is not an either or proposition.  Both are absolutely essential, the urge is that the Creation of Value should take precedence. 

Some of the greatest discoveries like the electricity, inventions like the light bulb and the telephone have had tremendous positive impact on our lives.  The men responsible are some of the most valuable men in the world.    

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How can you create value?

Creating Value is a simple process! But simple isn't necessarily easy, as the wise-men say.

In order to create/add value, all you have to do is express your real self. 

There are problems, all around us, hundreds of them.  Most people choose to complain and then learn to live with them; they never ask the necessary questions to resolve the problems.  They even become oblivious to the fact over time.  Your opportunities lie here, just by looking around you, intently, always asking the question, “What is missing in this picture?”, and then you start thinking of ways to resolve those problems – one at a time.

You know that Imagination is everything (scroll down to refer the title), so start imagining and expressing your real self.  Let the world see and experience your creation, let them come back for more.  And with that you would have created value.  

Start Creating now, Good luck!!

Please share your thoughts, comments and feedback to derive more value..

Imagination is EVERYTHING!

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein

Imagine a world without imagination, and you will realize that there can be no future, no ‘reality’ without imagination.  Well, what is reality?  Reality is all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you. 

Let us understand the two key terms: Experience and Appearance.

To experience something means to undergo an emotional sensation or to be in a particular state of mind; while appearance means to give certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.  Reality then is no more than your state of mind that determines every outward aspect of your world.

In other words, reality is the physical manifestation of the mental image you hold in your mind of yourself and the world at large. The process of the formation of this mental image is Imagination.  So, whatever you can imagine can be real.

“Everything you can imagine is real” – Pablo Picasso

When we claim a person to be imaginative, what we mean is that that person is marked by independence and creativity in thought or action.  The truth is, all of us can be extremely imaginative – free and creative in our thoughts and actions.  We can literally CREATE a world the way we want it to be, the way we imagine it to be.  

Wow, isn't that an exhilarating feeling: to realize that you possess the ability to CREATE a more beautiful, more joyous world, if you can just feed your imagination and not ignore it?

“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”  ― Patricia A. McKillip

Every great thing that was ever achieved in the history of the mankind and every great thing yet to come to life in the real world, at some point in time, was and will be in someone’s imagination first.  That imagination when coupled with focused effort/action can make this world an even better place.  YOU can make this world a better place, Imagine that!

“Find your risk and you will find yourself.  Sometimes that means leaving your home, your father’s house, and your birthplace, and travelling to strange lands.  Both the biblical Abraham and the Buddha do this quite literally.  But for the cabbalist the true journey does not require dramatic breaks with past and home.  It is rather a journey of the imagination.” – Marc Gafni

So, let your mind imagine, let there be no boundaries, no barriers.  Imagine whatever it is that you want, as YOU become the CREATOR of your future and your reality. 

Imagine that now!!

“The painter has to wrestle with color, canvas and brushes, the sculptor with stone and chisel...yet, the creative act, their ‘vision’ of what they are going to create, transcends time.  It is the same for every manifestation of being.  The experience of loving, of joy, of grasping truth does not occur in time, but in the here and now.  The here and now is eternity...” – Erich Fromm