This is something simple you can do, to get started on improving your life right now.

You can repeat this system at any time. It is especially valuable for those occasions you feel overwhelmed by circumstances or can’t cope.

But it is not confined to use in a drastic crisis. It would help a very efficient and successful person up a notch or two as well. Such simple step-wise programs we call in Supernoetics™ a “rubric” (a formula).

Step 1. Make a List

Start by making a list of undone things that are holding you back in life, from the smallest to the most intimidating. Empty your head as the thoughts come. Don’t try to put them in any sequence or hierarchical order. Continue reading →

Creative imagination is the supreme activity of the human mind. By using his imagination creatively, Man has been able to make many leaps forward, improving his existing reality to a better one. To use imagination creatively, a person must proceed from a series of known facts toward a series of supposed or invented facts or conditions. The supposed facts or conditions may end up  close to or far removed from the point of departure.

Imagination is the integral portion of creativity, which shapes a concept or course of action in advance of the event and directs activities. It conceives interpretations and translates an idea into action in a way that provides a person with a clear objective; a determinable goal toward which to progress.

Sometimes, imagination is thought to be functioning when reality has been left far behind and flights of fancy have taken over. This is because there are two types of imagination that function for all of us: fictional and factual. Fiction denotes something already removed from fact. If the basis for an act of imagination, itself a mental act beyond fact, rests on fiction, the result is twice removed from the original source.

Fictional imagination operates from assumed rather than observed and proven facts, or from assumptions that are false rather than true. Often fictional imagination creates images that are more a projection of a wish than of sound reasoning; images out of which dreams and madness are made. Fictional imagination is the primary source of fixed viewpoints, fears and beliefs ungrounded in reality. It is seldom of positive value.

Factual imagination operates from a basis of comprehended knowledge. It functions as freely as the fictional kind – as freely as the imagination must operate – but it is logical, based on fidelity rather than half truths. Factual imagination is based on truth, not fugitive from it. In this respect the extent to which creative imagination is stretched is not the critical factor in the soundness of its use: the degree of truth in the relationship to reality or proven facts determines the quality of creative imagination.

By differentiating and discriminating between these two types of imagination, you will be better placed to make the transition from a bounded reality to an unbounded reality, and to discard beliefs ungrounded in reality.

I came up with this phrase today but it’s an old, old concept, once you know what to look for.

It comes down to this:

Often we fail by doing what is most important!

Huh? That’s right. We engage in something which is so easy to sell to ourselves as vital, significant and part of the way forward. But it isn’t. In fact it’s a distraction form what we should be doing.

I’m a writer, so this applies especially to me: so long as I am writing, progress is good, right?

Nope.

There are things we all have to do in life. One particular anchor is the next step in our master life plan. That must take priority over all other activity. So, if we let something get in the way of ding it, we are letting ourselves be distracted.

Here’s today’s example. I was talking with a colleague and proudly boasted I wrote 11,000 words yesterday. That’s impossible, of course. I wrote about 4,000 new words and edited/rewrote another 7,000.

Rewriting and editing is still very demanding and, I would guess, about 65% of the effort of fresh, creative writing. So yesterday was a very formidable output indeed. I doubt even 0.5% of writers who have ever lived could equal that (nobody before the age of word processors).

But actually, I hurt myself. Because I didn’t do something even more important…. Continue reading →