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Today for a mere 25 cents, I discovered a little blue hardcover book called, “Jim Henson’s Doodle Dreams - Inspiration for Living Life Outside the Lines.“  (I love 25 cent day at our local thrift store.)  When I returned back home - Over a cup of coffee I opened this little book.  It featured art by Jim Henson and text by Jim Lewis.  I can’t share the amazing art.  But here is a taste of the inspirational text …

• Be interested in everything.
• An open mind is a good place to start.  Stay open to everything.  The more you see, hear, and experience, the more connections you’ll make.
• Beginning is the hardest thing.
• CREATIVITY.  Taking something enormously strange and somehow making it strangely familiar.
• Try to keep enough balls in the air so that when some fall onto the ground, you’ve got others up there.
• You have to remember:  Problems can be solved.  There is something you can do.
• Every once in a while, stop and look around.  It doesn’t matter where you are; there’s usually something right there in front of you that will surprise and inspire you.
• If you’re open to them, great ideas are everywhere.
• Being afraid isn’t  always a bad thing.  Sometimes you need that trembling feeling to remind you how exciting it is to be doing something new.
• When you take chances, you’re going to fail.  That’s inevitable.  You can either let failure turn you away from your dream or inspire you to dream bigger.
• Understanding other points of view keeps you fresh.  You can look at the same thing one way forever, and it never seems to change.  Then someone comes in and turns it upside down or inside out and suddenly, together, you’ve made something amazing.

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