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Creative Will Leads to Happiness and Prosperity
By Peter Nguyen - Apr 4, 2008
If human beings are endowed with "free will," then how come most people -- by their own admission -- do not achieve success or happiness in life? Why is it that only one person out of 20 will ever achieve financial independence? Here is the answer that most human beings intuitively know but subconsciously ignore: Free will leads to happiness, wealth and peace only if it is first transformed into creative will.
However, this conversion process is not easy. It takes a great deal of self-discipline, knowledge, determination and focus. That's a lot of work.
So rather than train ourselves to shape our free will into creative will, we much prefer to just turn on the TV set and let someone else direct (or, more accurately, misdirect) our free will.
We fail to understand that free will is a necessary ingredient of happiness and success, but not a sufficient one.
Take free speech, for example. It is a necessary condition for democracy, but it is not a sufficient condition to guarantee "power of the people by the people."
Similarly, free will is a necessary condition but not a sufficient one to guarantee "passion, power and prosperity of the person by the person."
Here's another surprising revelation: in the same way that free speech is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States and in many other democratic nations, free will is a fundamental right guaranteed by the very structure of the universe. Indeed, nobody can force you to want anything that you do not want or can force you to experience something that you do not want to experience.
The discovery of one's free and sovereign will is perhaps the one event that is found in the biography of all great men and women throughout history.
The presence of this free will and one's power to shape it into a creative will, constitute the essential lesson to be learned from all authors of personal development books from David Schwartz to Napoleon Hill to Anthony Robbins.
These magnificent liberators of human potential are indeed saying: "All the wealth lies within you! Find it, unleash it and master it, and you will live like a god creating his own sublime Heaven on Earth!"
The ultimate lesson is: Without freedom of thought, one cannot have freedom of action. With freedom of thought, one can be, do and have anything.
Here's a concrete, irrefutable example of the power of free will converted into creative will: J.K. Rowling. She became a billionaire (as in $1,000,000,000) by developing and shaping her free will into creative will, and the expression of that (artful and disciplined) creative will is the Harry Potter series.
But what does "creative will" mean exactly? And most importantly, where can you buy it?
Well, that's the challenge right there. You CANNOT buy it or acquire it from any external source.
Every person has a latent creative will inside, and this creative will must be encouraged to express itself.
Wayne Dyer famously said: "Don't die with your music still inside of you."
Another wise person wrote centuries ago: "The only tragedy is man unexpressed." (Of course, "man" is used here in the generic sense and includes women too).
In other words, the challenge for human beings is to encourage, enable and empower the expression of their creative will.
Some people might argue that it's difficult to develop this inner creativity because we live in a materialistic culture where people are driven to consume value rather than produce value.
But such thinking is almost an excuse because ultimately, every person is totally responsible for his/her own happiness, wealth and peace in life.
The good news is that being creative is actually a lot of fun. It only takes a slight shift in one's mindset.
Indeed, we only have to think of ourselves as "creators" rather than "consumers."
In the end, as we create more things or ideas or experiences every day, we inevitably realize that we are indeed creating our very lives -- one moment at a time. We realize, with a pleasant recognition of what we somehow always knew, that we are indeed the authors and creators of our own reality!
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