36 11111 00 W00 W00 W00 W00 Ways tays tays tays tays to Motivo Motivo Motivo Motivo Motivate Yate Yate Yate Yate YourourourourourselfselfselfselfselfEven Mozart said that he never wrote an original melody
in his life. His melodies were all recombinations of old
folk melodies.
Look at Elvis Presley. People thought he was a true
original when he first came upon the scene. But he
wasn’t. He was just the first white person to ever sing
with enthusiasm. His versions of songs, however, were
often direct copies from African-American rhythm and
blues singers. Elvis acknowledged that his entire style
was a combination of Little Richard, Jackie Wilson, and
James Brown, as well as a variety of gospel singers.
Although Elvis wasn’t original, he was creative. Be-
cause he was so unexpected.
If you believe you were created in the image of your
Creator, then you must, therefore, be creative. Then, if
you’re willing to see yourself as creative, you can begin
to cultivate it in everything you do. You can start com-
ing up with all kinds of unexpected solutions to the chal-
lenges that life throws at you.
11. Find your master key
I used to have the feeling that everyone else in life
had at one time or another been issued instruction books
on how to make life work. And I, for some reason, wasn’t
there when they passed them out.
I felt a little like the Spanish poet Cesar Vallejo,
who wrote, “Well, on the day I was born, God was sick.”
Still struggling in my mid-30s with a pessimistic out-
look and no sense of purpose, I voiced my frustration
once to a friend of mine, Dr. Mike Killebrew, who rec-
ommended a book to me. Until that time, I didn’t really
believe that there could be a book that could tell you
how to make your life work.