From Stacy Julian's preview of her upcoming Big Picture Scrapbooking class called Have More Fun:

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It's a book on creativity. It's called Thinker Toys, so it's a play on the Tinker Toys idea, and I'm going to read you a cool excerpt from it. It goes like this:

Creative people are joyful and positive. Creators look at what is and what can be instead of what is not. Instead of excluding possibilities, creators include all possibilities, both the real and imagined. They choose to interpret their own world and do not rely upon the interpretations of others, and, most importantly, creators are creative because they believe they are creative.

This is the kicker. This was the next sentence:

Most people presume that our attitudes affect our behavior, and this is true, but it is also true that our behavior determines our attitudes.

We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoc, nor do we choose the country of our birth or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die, nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death, but within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live, with purpose or adrift, with joy or with joylessness, with hope or with despair, with humor or with sadness, with a positive outlook or a negative outlook, with pride or with shame, with inspiration or with defeat, and with honor or with dishonor. We decide what makes us significant or insignificant. We decide to be creative or to be indifferent. No matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices or decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make, we decide, we chose. In the end, our own creativity is decided by what we choose to do, or what we refuse to do, and as we decide and choose, so are our destinies formed.

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I am sooo looking forward to this class!  You can get more info about this class here:  http://www.bigpicturescrapbooking.com/comingsoon.php