The creation spiral

In a transformational situation, organisations often need to find new growth and development paths. In this context I like the book 'The Creation Spiral by Marinus Knoope. It lays out 12 practical steps on how things are created in life. Skipping steps or taking steps with insufficient energy will limit capturing the growth potential.

1. Wish

• Every creation starts with a wish or desire. To achieve something you need to have a wish for something first. It's important to formulate your wish positively, focusing on what you want rather than what you don't want. Of course, the stronger you want the wish the more power it has.

2. Visualise

• Humans have the capability to visualise a different future, to fantasise. Making this future state as clear as possible is the way to go. What do you see, hear, feel, taste when you have what you want. This requires an imagination effort to create this mental picture.

3. Believe

• The more you believe you can achieve something, the more likely you are to do so. You need this conviction to deal with setbacks, and to convince others who can help you.

4. Express

• Now it's time to express what you want to find ideas, people, information that could help you to achieve your wish. You don't need to know the how yet, it's just about expressing your wish.

5. Research

• In this step you start to identify ways on how to achieve your goal, and network with others. It's all about surrounding yourself with people who can help you achieve your wish and getting the right level of information.

6. Plan

• Planning is the bridge from fantasy to reality. If you plan specific actions, it increases the chances that they get done.

7. Decide

• After these 6 first steps, real movement is needed. This starts with making some decisions on what to do and starting the 'acting'.

8. Act.

• This is all about the active creation process of doing things, practicing things, building things, etc.

9. Persevere

• All creations have to deal with setbacks. It's now all about not giving up and standing back up when you fall. In this phase, the strength of your 'believe' (step 3) gets tested.

10. Receive

• Once you have done these steps, now it's time to reflect on the results. Most people have difficulty with receiving and enjoying success, and for example receiving a compliment. You have to be open to receive.

11. Appreciate

• Be grateful for what you have achieved.

12. Relax

• In this last step, it's time for reflection and introspection and to let go, before new wants emerge and the cycle starts again. Which of the steps can you strengthen to create a more natural creation spiral? ...meer