Q: Who has helped you connect with your creative side? What were the results?

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you won't believe, but the one who helped me connect with my creative side was Dalai Lama Himself. few years ago (tops five years ago) Dalai Lama came in my dreams to tell me: no matter how far apart we are dedanoe, you and me, we have the spiritual connection established and may there be 10 millions of humanimals in the urban jungle were you live, you're gonna be the one to walk that bridge of "United Nations" between your Gorce Petrov and hers Nerezi in Skopje, MKD, where you use to meet while your love lasted and at that exact time you will find what i have taxed for you. it was only 1 Chinese Ji Yiao, tenth part of Chinese Yuan, the banknote traveled half a world to fulfill that dream, and the creative trigger is Lama's saying (from within that dream): Now we are clear about one thing dedanoe, $2B will not do you any good to you if you're alone on the moon, money has the power over people, money spins the mankind, where do you put the money there the human head turns, even reflectively and unwillingly. the task at hand is How do you destroy the World Wide Economy with A Single Ji Yiao ??? destroying the world wide financial system is A MUST because the money spins the mankind only in all the wrong directions, for instance, the imbalance resources in the universe are limitless and unbounded... if it is not the human greed for them money, which equals to greed for ones rule over others, to restrict the ultimate resourceful freedom, and why, because that is how humans care for their specie to survive, that's what keeps the individuals tided up for the collective and inside the collective welcome are only the invalid ones those that hope what they miss the collective will supply, which makes the collective very happy, the only thing the collective needs is single human with single need so the collective can satisfy all the collective needs... THE RESULT: 1 = 1 x 1 = 2 x 0.5 = 4 x 0.25 = 8 x 0.125 = ... = All x Nothing = 1, or, for 1 Chinese Ji Yiao i can get me infinite amount of Ji Yiaos each of them with zero value... that infinity can only be delivered in continuum... and Zeno says: zero is nihilar but the metal it is imprinted on is of same value as the metal on which the 1 Ji Yiao is imprinted. take part of that infinite amount of zeros and go to N.Y.S.E. to sell the metal underneath them even for half the current price -- you have made a fortune -- now, how this gift was given to you from Lama, you go and give it to others... and with time when the planet earth overloads with humans each with infinite amount of money there will be no force that can stop the demand of ones overing the offer of others (my price to you, by definition, is meant to defend the ending of my offer by your demand and if you come to me with infinite amount of money then no price can protect me), hence, the world wide economy is destroyed, the money are out of the game. guess what ??? 1 is 1 Kilo Mililion, 1 Mega Microlion, 1 Giga Nanolion, 1 Tera Picolion, 1 Teta Femtolion, 1 Nato Zatolion...but 1 is also (a + b i) [(a - b i) / (aa + bb)] where i is the imaginary unit the square of which is -1... can any one stop me ??? in a world with no money what will the humans give their goods for ??? they must give them for free "When everyone gives everything then everyone everything will get"... that will be The Lama's Way of triggering my creativity in most destructive way.

In my 9th year of public school, 1978 living in Whalley, Surrey British Columbia,(notoriously known as the crime capital of Canada back then). a social studies teacher, John Upton, taught a group of us kids how to read and chart courses on navigational maps of the Pacific West Coast. After learning how to tie knots, identify different types of sailing vessels, understand the various functions of a ship and survive at sea, we disembarked on a 1 week voyage up the Strait of Juan de Fuca in a 109ft schooner "The Robertson II" (now known as the Bluenose II). We sailed the vessel, swabbed the decks, raised the sails, polished the brass, charted our course and navigated the ship as John and the adult crew coached us in our endeavours.
What a time of inspiration!
However, the real kicker came when John said to his students,"Farewell, I am off to sail around the world with my wife and young son in the 33 ft boat I built."
And he was gone.

It was that departure that I realized anything is possible if you choose to live life instead of trying to make a living.

Sail on John.

Despite being brought up in an intensely creative environment as a child, (my mother is an artist), it has been the children that I have worked with in schools for the last ten years that that have inspired me to push my creativity forward because what I do now gives them such a feeling of wonder and achievement. So, their new found creativity and excitement feeds mine, and on it goes....I started with 6 projects, I now have over 120, I love my job!

Kids and my dog help me connect with my creative side the most. I feel enthusiastic with them. I feel joy playing with and taking my dog for walks. I get ideas when I take me dog out early in the mornings.

My high school English teacher. She is now over 90 and in a home, but we are still in touch 30 years later. Her words of encouragement for me to become a writer never fully left me and at the age of 42 I left my consulting career to pursue my passion. Seven years later I am nearing completion of my first book, which has already sold to publishers in Canada, the UK, the US, Spain and the Spanish speaking world, and the Netherlands.