Change is all around us every day and every day our lives our changing. It CAN’T be avoided. We can’t bury our heads in the sand or a favored pillow and pretend it isn’t there. Change can be the great awakener. It can be the best thing that ever happened to you.

With the current interest in secrets about the power of thought, it might be useful to take a look at where the power really comes from. Certainly, thoughts are powerful as a locomotive. But emotions are the fuel to get the train out of the station and down the tracks.

Everything depends on our power of choice. We choose to be in the present, choose to observe ourselves, and choose to develop independence and self-reliance.

Some people have a good idea of how they treat others and how to act around others. Then there are those who mean well, but don’t like to be inconvenienced by what others think. This article is about an easy way to not only be happier, but is also about how leaving an impression can attract opportunities into our lives or push them away.

Without autonomy, we never think for ourselves, needing continual help from parental types like counselors, talk show hosts, ministers, peers, and experts all too willing to do our thinking for us. We need to decide who we are as individuals. Unique. Valued. Self motivated. Independent.

Are you in control of your reactions to your feelings? Are you tired of having anger, anxiety and jealousy a part of your life? You can change your reactions to your feelings and change what is a part of your life experience.

How the people we keep company with can make us or break us when trying to grow and move forward in life.

“Creativity comes from this refusal to run, this willing encounter with anxiety and what lies beyond it. And all of this requires immense courage, the courage to create. That which we had previously run from and rejected turns out to be the redemptive source of vitality, creativity, and authentic spirituality.”

Have you ever wondered where some really “crazy” ideas come from or how a bizarre idea becomes a script and then into a movie? Some people don’t know how to handle their unconventional or undesirable thoughts and ideas. Different people do different things to either try and put the fire out inside or add fuel to a burning need to express themselves.

How far can creativity go? See how some harness their creative responsibility and for some it is dangerous to themselves and others. For you creative types out there, feel better knowing that it’s not just you that feels “nuts” some times—it goes with the territory to think the unthinkable.