David Gets More Creative

Here is another entry from my friend David Spiegel. He mentioned me in his daily inspirational email so I couldn't help sharing it here today. Thanks again, Dave!

"As long as you believe it is impossible, you will actually never find out if it is possible or not."

- John Seymour: English author

The Universe is sending me messages once again!

After receiving today's quote of the day, I received my daily insights from my mentor and friend Doug Smith at Front Range Leadership:

Every problem is an invitation to get more creative.

They seem to go hand in hand. If you believe a thing to be impossible then it absolutely will be. Change the word "problem" to read opportunity the outcome is inevitable. Change! And with each new opportunity the creative waters flow. First they trickle and after some time and with repeated use they become like flood waters,unstoppable.

20 years ago I told a vendor I was working with that I had made the decision to sell only Halloween. His response"you can't make a 365 day a year living that way! Good luck with that!"

I didn't know how, I just believed that I could and would. I made the statement and then lived up to that commitment. Simple!

The challenge/opportunity was stated "I will make my lively hood in Halloween!"

For 20 years I have creatively crafted a a life built around that statement. I can not begin to tell you how many times I have heard"...and what do you do the rest of the year". Too many times to recount that's for sure! It did not happen over night. It was not always easy.

There was no magic formula other than hard work and commitment. There were set backs and stumbling blocks and learning curves and many many changes along the way. And here we are,20 years later with the opportunity to be creative once again. As a matter of fact the level of creativity today is so much greater today in part because of the experience and expertise accumulated over the last two decades.

In those 20 years I have worked Halloween from every angle imaginable, wholesale, retail, eCommerce, distributing, consulting, manufacturing, designing, packaging import export and more. Each new skill affording me new lessons and the chance to become even more creative.

And so it will be with future endeavors. Believing that anything, no every thing, is possible will insure that my creative being will continue to grow and that there is no limit to success. Not even the sky!

-- David Spiegel

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