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Imagination and Creativity: Both Are Needed to Solve Problems

Posted by Leisa Watkins On April - 30 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS
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Imagination and creativity go hand-in-hand.  By breaking down the words creativity and imagination we can gain a great understanding of how closely connected they are. Imagination image - to form a mental picture ate - join ion - action So we can see that imagination is an action.  It's the act of forming a mental picture and is not the ...

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The DREAM Act – US Immigration Reform Bill

Posted by Leisa Watkins On April - 29 - 2009 6 COMMENTS
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Because of the title of my blog (Dream, Act, Plan, Believe) I've been getting of visitors looking for information on The DREAM Act, or the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act. This post is more or less a public-service post. A way for my blog visitors to find the information on the Dream ...

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Live Life Without Limits with Nick Vujicic

Posted by Leisa Watkins On April - 26 - 2009 3 COMMENTS
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I choose Nick Vujicic as the first person to feature in the Life Without Limits series  because, born without limbs, 25 year old Nick Vujicic appears to have many limitations, however Nick doesn't! You see, Nick was born without arms or legs, and has faced countless challenges and obstacles. Despite the challenges Nick has traveling extensively ...

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Life Without Limits New Sunday Feature

Posted by Leisa Watkins On April - 26 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS
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This entry is part 1 of 8 in the series Life Wiithout Limits

Don’t you love an inspiring story? A story of a person who has chosen to live their life without limits, who has chosen to soar to great heights and perhaps has done so by overcoming great challenges.

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The Success Blog Network

Posted by Leisa Watkins On April - 22 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS
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I'm participating in the 31 Days to a Better Blog at ProBlogger.  One of the assignments was to Find a Blog Buddy.  Darren outlines in his post the benefits of finding working together as bloggers. Darren put together a collaboration resources at ProBlogger but it was soon evident that if there was going to be collaboration ...

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Five Personal Development Articles You Should Read When Feeling Overwhelmed

Posted by Leisa Watkins On April - 20 - 2009 4 COMMENTS
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I am feeling very overwhelmed today.  I've got several huge projects I am trying to finish up at once.  My primary project today was trying to finish up the Rich Women Sisterhood site.  It wasn't until I looked at the blog topics I was linking to that I realized that there was an underlying theme ...

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An Apology to Feed Readers

Posted by Leisa Watkins On April - 19 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS

I just found out that my feed is only showing partial posts and wanted to apologize to my readers who read this blog via a feed. My sister, Natasha of Mawbooks,  had the same problem with her blog and I was able to fix it. The problem - the fix I did for her blog isn't ...

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Stimulate The Creative Palette – Ask Questions!

Posted by Leisa Watkins On April - 18 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS
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Creative questions are the imagination's appetizer. They wet your brains palette and they stimulate creativity. If you want your imagination to kick-in and reveal that next great idea you've got to get your brain to work on it. The best way to do that is to ask it questions. You see, your brain is already asking ...

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Your Imagination is Starving – Feed It!

Posted by Leisa Watkins On April - 16 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS
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This time look at it with new eyes! Try to capture the interesting textures, the way the shadows dance upon the wall, and those things that others often don’t notice.

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Manage Your Imagination to Increase Your Success

Posted by Leisa Watkins On April - 15 - 2009 1 COMMENT
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All of us imagine all the time.  After all, it is our imagination that allows us to play out all the possible scenarios laid out before us and decide on a course of action. "Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."  ~ Gloria ...

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Are You Chasing Rabbits Down Rabbit Holes?

Posted by Leisa Watkins On April - 14 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS
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I believe the World Wide Web is not the most appropriate name for the internet. Yes, it’s true, the world wide web is justly named because one website links to another, then another, and another - just like one strand links another strand in a spiders web. But perhaps, it’s not the most appropriate name… Perhaps ...

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Are You Smart Enough to Explain it to a Six Year Old? A Marketing Lesson from Albert Einstein

Posted by Leisa Watkins On April - 5 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS
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“If you can’t explain it to a six-year old you don’t fully understand it yourself.” because you must fully understand something in order to break it down into it’s simplest form.

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