Now would be a good time for me to pick up a hoe and plant a nice, big garden. But it is not going to happen. Hard times call for change in our lifestyle, and change doesn't come easily if you are like me.

For you or anyone else to become a life innovator you need to have a plan! This plan must be infused with a clear mind and good self esteem.

Innovation and creativity is what distinguishes man from the rest of life on earth. If our ancestors had been content to hunt and gather food as nomads, then the whole of civilization and everything in it would be virtually non-existent. Imagine a life without beautiful works of art, cars, television and mobile phones, not to forget computers. Every single invention and masterpiece is the result of the creativity of the human race. But where does creativity come from?

Over the millennia we humans have developed a symbolic world, a world powerful enough to endanger the physical world. Ritual is the transitional instinct that helps us navigate back and forth between these two worlds.

It's often unfortunate when inventors and innovators take everything so darn personally. When someone questions their idea and concepts to learn more they often get rather persnickety, angry, and we find they are unable to articulate their plans in laymen terms or prove their concepts. Further, they often have no back-up plans to support their theories, hypothesis, or inventions.

Our great innovative society and civilization is squandering some one of our greatest assets. Let me explain. Today, we have many incredibly smart, accomplished, and experienced individual innovators, consultants and inventors, but they have no access to help provide for the common good of the nation. They are blocked by bureaucracy and their talents wasted, why? It seems that lobbyists have more access to our government and that the people are an afterthought.

Many small time inventors feel slighted by the US Government and the Military, as they have worthy ideas and concepts, but when they contact the any of the appropriate agencies, they are met with a stone wall in the bureaucracy. In fact, even if they do get some satisfaction or someone to listen to them, they get comments like; "you have interesting credentials." Interesting credentials come again? What does that mean, and ask a few innovators and inventors about this and they will tell you that many from Washington DC area have told them that they have "interesting credentials," it is beginning to sound like a code phrase, as they are the only ones who use that phrase.

There is no doubt in the fact that all of us are talented and have enough ideas to invent new things in life. But, it's also true to say that most of us curb our instinctive ideas and do not take any action to materialize them. Those few who go on to express their views and take some actions follow the long path of invention.

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Have you ever considered how innovation occurs? Believe it or not original thoughts are quite hard to come by, as most of the human brain works on things it knows, sees, observes, or senses. From there it the human mind adds on new ideas or combines ideas, concepts, thoughts, or innovations. Therefore, most human innovation is incremental, and if you are privy to many areas of science, industry, regions, cultures, etc. then you will have the ability to cross-pollinate, "lateral think" better than your counterparts in any one, two or three of those endeavors.

It's time for America to innovate and capture the raw innovative and entrepreneurial spirit that is getting lost in the bureaucracy and over regulation. Our government, military and future energy initiatives are at stake. What we need is a 3-phase contracting for small startups is brilliant. For instance, I have several ideas, concepts and innovations myself, but I am surely not alone, just one person. What if we could set up a system in an aircraft hanger and divide it into 20 sections, we enlist our entrepreneurial and inventor superstars to come and set up shop and make things.

We hear a lot about change and how it's up to us to make a difference and the repeating theme; "Ask not what you can do for your government, but what your government can do for you." But, it's rather silly really, as how many of you have ever actually tried to assist your government? Why not try to give your ideas, concepts or innovations to your government? Just try?

Many innovators are upset, as it costs unbelievable amounts of money to file patents and the tremendous amount of red-tape to do business with the government. Worse, corporations are so quick to still ideas, along with foreign companies that they are afraid to tell anyone about their ideas. Often, they do nothing until one day they end up saying, "hey, that was my idea!" Indeed, it was, but they sat on it and did nothing about it.

Most good Americans wish to help their country and when we are at war, they wish to give support to our countrymen and women in "harms way," but how is the question. What do you do if you wish to give an excellent idea to the military or any government agency for that matter? Well, you might find it is almost impossible to get information into the system. Often if you contact a Federal Agency via the Internet or by phone they tell you to go and fill out a form on their website, and there is another section "doing business with this agency,"

When we act merely as we think we are supposed to act, the norms of the community dance through us. This is kind of neat, because something bigger than ourselves is dancing through us. Although this is good, it is not good enough.

I was reading a book on creativity and came across a quote of Thomas Edison recently that got me thinking and, as I was in pondering mode, I also started thinking back to my school days. Edison said, "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

The life of a scientist is confined to a laboratory and sacrifices all comforts for making a dream come true. The hard work of a scientist gives birth to new new chapters of science and technology.

Neuroscience, the area of science that studies the brain and nervous system, is now showing us how our mind and brain work. This understanding can be applied in the field of personal development. The change of the caterpillar to the butterfly is a wonderful metaphor for how we can consciously choose to rewire our brains using thoughts from a Neuroscience perspective. Personal growth can be accelerated using practical application of science.

As 2008 comes to a close it is time to review just how well you did in your creative endeavors and what innovations you or your company brought into the world. Some will boast as many as 10 innovations this year, but they are far and few between.