Category: values

Why Creative Business?

I just got back from a short hike with Tobin and Merrick (5 and 3).  I took along Deepak Chopra’s little book The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (you can find that in my Amazon widget at the right) and within a few minutes was inspired to write a few lines…

I’m calling this a “Creative Manifesto”

1. The purpose of life is to create – or at least co-create with God and our fellow humans.

2. In order to fulfill this purpose we need:

  • Some freedom from worry about the hand-to-mouth burdons of living – some material weath. We can’t be expected to be creative and fulfill our full potential when we’re starving or homeless.
  • Time to be creative (which is maybe part of the above discussion).
  • Confidence and the Self-esteem/image to share our creations in the face of potential criticism.
  • Knowledge (personal or through a team) to enable us to have the freedom and prosperity that provides that time and confidence to create and share our creations.

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This is what many lawyers do – provide the space, time, and confidence for people to find and fulfill their creative potential.

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A Salesman’s Prayer – Og Mandino


A Salesman’s Prayer
From “The Greatest Salesman in the World.”
Og Mandino

I will pray for guidance, and I will pray as a salesman, in this manner—-

Oh creator of all things, help me. For this day I go out into the world naked and alone, and without your hand to guide me I will wander far from the path which leads me to success and happiness.

I ask not for gold or garments or even opportunities equal to my ability; instead, guide me so that I may acquire ability equal to my opportunities.

You have taught the lion and the eagle how to hunt and prosper with teeth and claw. Teach me how to hunt with words and prosper with love so that I may be a lion among men and an eagle in the market place.

Help me to remain humble through obstacles and failures; yet hide not from mine eyes the prize that will come with victory.

Assign me task to which others have failed; yet guide me to pluck the seeds of success from their failures. Confront me with fears that will temper my spirit; yet endow me with courage to laugh at my misgivings.

Spare me sufficient days to reach my goals; yet help me live this day as if it were my last.

Bathe me in good habits that the bad ones may drown; yet grant me compassion for the weaknesses in others. Suffer me to know that all things shall pass; yet help me to count my blessings of today.

Expose me to hate so it be not a stranger; yet fill my cup with love to turn strangers into friends.

But all these things be only if thy will. I am a small and lonely grape clutching the vine yet thou hast made me different from all others.

Verily, there must be a special place for me. Guide me. Help me. Show me the way Lord.

Let me become all you planned for me when my seed was planted and selected by you to sprout in the vineyard of the world.

Help this humble salesman…..Guide me, God.

Fuel the Spark: 5 Guiding Values for Success in Law School and Beyond

I’m getting ready to publish the first book in my 5 Guiding Values for Success series. The first is for law students (I know a little about what they’re going through). I just put up the new site for my books and speaking projects: KevinHouchin.com.  The site is still under construction, and will be constantly, but you can take a look and read a sample chapter off the first book.  If you’d like, you can also pre-order the book individually or in bulk by emailing me.

FTS-5GV-LawSchool Cover

Fuel The Spark:
5 Guiding Values for Success in Law School and Beyond

Sample Chapter