Gift ideas

Most people think that a gift idea is something that you give to another person in the form of a wrapped present.

What happens if we turn that around and look at this term from a different perspective? Add a little word like "of" and you have the Gift of Ideas.

From the time we are little children attending school to the time we enter the work force we are given two very different and conflicting messages. As children there is no limit to our imagination and creative ideas! But once school begins, our behavior is trained to suppress those ideas so that we can learn other ideas. Granted, some of those ideas are actually important - but a good many of those ideas are outdated and stale and in fact, have nothing to do with our world today.

Its a rare adult who can still think imaginatively and freely. Even creative geniuses have old stale tapes running in their hearts and minds to "sit down, behave, obey the rules".

Corporations hire professional speakers to motivate and inspire employees to "think outside of the box". How sad that the gift of imagination that every child possesses must be re-trained in adults.

My thought for today is to give your self a powerful gift. The Gift of Permission. Permission to play, permission to imagine, permission to create and to think out of the box. Permission to be yourself and to rediscover who that is.

Give yourself the permission to what ever it is that you need or wish that you had.