by John Schrag
(North Newton, KS)
?My COMPUTER IS STUCK, Can you come help me??
Ever since we moved into a retirement village, ?Value Added? seemed like a long distance call. Often my dime seemed to lose it?s cents and simply aroused static in the line. I?d have to hang up the idea but, I never gave it up. Whenever we fail to score, we can always put up a new goal. Goals are our targets and we need to follow the arrows to varied levels of achievement. One of the ways I?ve found to pry value added into output is by leveraging creativity. Wait, what does that mean?
Creativity remains stretched out flat until forced to pull itself together in trying to answer a call. To leverage creativity, table the first two potential solutions that the mind comes up with for any given problem. Pretend those options aren?t available, then send your mind down the track into deeper chambers. That?s where the tunnel with the light at one end resides. When you get your mind into that tunnel, ?Ring creativity?s bell? and shout to the Engineer, ?I need more potential solutions to solve this problem. Oh yes, don?t forget to bring a bump or two of God?s presence back with you too.?
When we moved into the retirement village I did establish a new goal. I challenged myself to be instrumental in adding value by doing some kind of community service.
To kick start my goal, I chose to post a, free service for small computer generated jobs, advertisement on the bulletin boards. What I had in mind was toi help develop original greeting cards, fancied up thank you notes, thinking about you?s, custom fit individualized poetry, etc., etc. My first call was, My COMPUTER IS STUCK, Can you come help me? I knocked on the door of a resident with a computer that quit responding altogether. Well, that wasn?t exactly what I meant with my post------------ so what? I accepted his invitation to come in, hoping
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