Unleash Your Creativity And YOU Can Change The World

As individuals, however creative we may be and however much we want to change the world around us for the better, it’s easy to feel disheartened and powerless.

“How can I alone make any difference, I’m only one person out of billions?” many of us regularly ask ourselves.

Well, you may be helping to change the world already in more ways than you realise. And the easiest way to have more of a positive impact is to lead by example, be the best you can be and act as a role model for others.

That’s all any of us can do, but it’s something few us ACTUALLY do.

Have you ever heard of “The Butterfly Effect”?

It’s a term used in chaos theory to describe the “sensitive dependence on initial conditions” in a system.

If, like me, your understanding of chaos theory is a little rusty these days, what The Butterfly Effect suggests, in everyday language, is that a tiny butterfly flapping its wings on one side of the planet can ultimately cause a huge tornado across the other side of the planet.

The small initial motion of the butterfly’s wings causes a subtle change in the air immediately around it, which moves the air around that and so on, until the knock on effects swell and build to create a tornado thousands of miles away.

So how does this apply to your creativity? And changing the world?!

Maybe you’re a painter. You paint small abstract paintings and exhibit them in a local cafe. One day, a woman eating in the cafe is so moved and inspired by one of your pieces, the next day she returns to painting again herself, after having not even looked at a blank canvas since she was a young child.

Being a teacher by profession, she begins to introduce some of the pleasure she gets from painting to one of her classes. A shy young boy in her class, who found it difficult to interact with the others and was achieving below average in many of his other subjects, begins to display an extraordinary talent for painting.

The ability to express his inner feelings and communicate to the world through his painting, the way he feels free in a way he couldn’t through speaking and writing, lets him unleash his creativity and leads to a huge positive transformation in his life.

Some months later, his parents, so delighted at their son’s incredible progress, and the positive change in his attitude and outlook, set up a foundation to introduce painting to children who otherwise wouldn’t have the opportunity to paint, or to even own a paintbrush.

Five years later, their foundation has centres all across America and Europe with thousands of under-privileged kids each year enjoying and expressing their creativity in a way they’ve never done before.

All from your tiny painting in your local café. The Butterfly Effect.

Maybe you’ll never know how your painting inspired the woman in the café. Maybe you’ll read about the foundation and think:

“What wonderful people, I wish I could have such a positive effect on so many people’s lives”.

But by following your creativity and being true to your creative talents, that’s just the effect you did have.

The greatest gift you can offer the world is your full true creative self. How much are YOU giving right now?

Creativity Coach Dan Goodwin is the author of “Create Create!”, a FREE twice monthly ezine for people who want simple and powerful articles, tips and exercises to help them unleash their creative talents. Sign up right now and get your FREE “Explode Your Creativity!” Action Workbook, at http://www.CoachCreative.com