Starting a business from scratch was not an easy job, really! Having been employed for almost two decades, thinking of running my own business was cool, but not it implementing it. Amidst all the internal resistance to move forward of becoming an entrepreneur, suddenly it happened - GSI was created! Creativity, an unseen force intervened.

Lacking a formal education and absence of a mentor to become an entrepreneur, I read "Entrepreneurship : A Contemporary Approach" by Donald F. Kuratko and Richard M. Hodgetts. The book was written to structure and illustrate the discipline of entrepreneurship in a manner that is unique and creative as entrepreneurship itself. In table from the book showed that in 1934, Schumpeter described an entrepreneur :"Innovation; Initiative". Then in 1978, Timmons' described them as : "drive/self confidence; goal oriented; moderate risk taker; focus of control; creativity/innovation".

The book profiles entrepreneurs as being creative and innovative. Creativity was thought to be as an exclusively inherited trait. However an expanding school of thought believes that creativity can be learned. In new ventures there often is a collective creativity that emerges from the joint efforts of the founders and team members and produces unique goods and services.

Long before entrepreneurship option was considered, I bought a book in Singapore entitled "Creative Visualization" by Shakti Gawain. It has been my textbook in learning how to visualize an image hours before a photo session and later the discipline of creative visualization was applied in conceptualizing business models for GSI.

Visualization, or creative visualization as it is sometimes referred to,
uses mental imagery to obtain an objective. The snapshot or a vivid mental picture of the desired thing is held firmly focused in the mind as if it had already happened.

The technique has been widely used in various fields such as the arts, sports, business, alternative medicine, religious practices, psychotherapy, psychical research, the mystical and occult arts, and self-improvement.

Creative visualization also is known by other terms such as "positive thinking," "positive imagery," "dynamic imaging," "creating imaging," "imaging," and so on.


The author, Shakti Gawain has been pioneering the field of personal development for over twenty-five years, she has been a best-selling author and internationally renowned teacher of consciousness. Shakti has facilitated thousands of individuals in developing greater awareness, balance and wholeness in their lives.

The book, which helped launch a movement, has been successfully used in the fields of health, education, business, sports, and creative arts for many years. Shakti explains how to use mental imagery and affirmations to produce positive changes in one’s life. The book contains meditations and exercises that are aimed at helping the reader or practitioner channel energies in good directions, strengthen self-esteem, improve overall health, and experience deep relaxation.

Creative visualization is the technique of using your imagination to create what you want in your life. There is nothing at all new, strange, or unusual about creative visualization. You are already using it every day, every minute in fact. It is your natural power of imagination, the basic creative energy of the universe, which you use constantly, whether or not you are aware of it.

In the past, many of us have used our power of creative visualization in a relatively unconscious way. Because of our own deep-seated negative concepts about life, we have automatically and unconsciously expected and imagined lack, limitation, difficulties, and problems to be our lot in life. To one degree or another that is what we have created for ourselves. And that has to change thorugh creative visualization.


Next week, our innovation team at GSI will be undergoing internal training on creative visualization to prepare them to a new business model of the company. With some advice from Dennis Posadas and insights from his book "Rice and Chips" our innovation driven team, QUbTEk Labs, will be launched today and is on the road for a journey to global technopreneurship.

Finally, Oprah Winfrey shares the positive result of visualization - “I do believe, and I have seen in my own life, that Creative Visualization works.”



(Source :http://www.shaktigawain.com/index.php)

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In January 1989, I was one of the students of Jimmy Licauco in "Silva Mind Control". Doing a lot of photography in Brunei, I got interested in Silva Mind Control because it was about creativity and visualization. Two of my classmates were Mike Relon Makiling and Maryo De Los Reyes.

Our final "exam" was to vizualize three events, places or people which were sensed from three of our classmates. Going back from aplha state after a long process, my classmates read their notes of what I described during the visualization process. They were all very excited when I vividly described three subjects :

• A relative suffering from epilepsy. I described him falling to ground in several places
• A relative staying Australia. The documented description showed the row houses and the cold temperature where the relative stayed
• A squatter house. I vividly described a very cramped room with one incandescent lamp located in a chaotic neighborhood

With the 3 out of 3 hits, I was elected president of the class.

Towards the end the class, I met Tito de Jesus, a dream analyst and a radio boradcaster ,was one of our facilitators. One hot summer day, I got a call asking for an assistance to locate a church worker, Julius Caesar Falcone, gone missing after sailing out to the sea. T

The next day, Tito with two nuns who worked in the parish as Julius helped me go aplha state to processed the scene. And they documented what I "saw" during the visualization process. Here's what they wrote:

Transcriptions from the conversations with Tito de Jesus as related to him by Efren Ricalde while in alpha state on April 11, 1990, between 4:00 p.m to 6:00 p.m.

The following scenarios are not in sequence:

1. Julius is seen wearing a bracelet, flesh colored.
2. His silver-steel watch records on his arms at 9:00 a.m time. He wears a blue t-shirt with apiece of cloth tied to a part of his body.
3. A small banca is floating with an old blue rope tied at its tail . A small island is seen with a statue, and this statue grows bigger and bigger.
4. In a small island, seated on a rock are two men, one holding a black bag, looks like Julius. Somewhere in the island there is small house burning.
5. A recurring scene is Julius bubbling water with head alternating up and down, for quite sometime.
6. Efren felt a great pain in the chest, and then a pain in the throat. This was the most difficult part of the process. He was feeling very weak and Tito had to energize Efren to continue with his journey.
7. A white object is seen floating on the sea. This scene appeared earlier in the process. Efren mentioned he could not bear to look straight into this object. However, this scene replayed again. During the sharing, when Tito asked Efren could it be that this white object is Julius and that’s why he could not look at it straight, Efren answered yes, but he was afraid to look at it.
8. Efren sees himself together with Tito looking up to the sky and sees a hole, a small one. Suddenly Julius’ face with smiles peeps through this hole. Then he disappears. The hole becomes bigger and bigger, showing a very beautiful scenery that Efren could not describe and wish to take a picture of it, and names it “paradise”. After some time, Efren looks up and sees the sky and the clouds.
9. A high white wall. On it is written with Julius’ own handwriting this word “Goodbye!” , underlined, in a slanting position with a blue color. This scene of Goodbye appears twice.
10. Consistently, a hand was seen with a rosary extended over to Efren, this was seen many times. Efren had to go to Quiapo church to locate at a certain place where a rosary similar to what was seen could be found. The scene in Church was detailed. The rosary was colored green with silver, inside a whole bundle of rosaries on the right side of the altar, with novena prayer books below it, flowers beside, and a woman nearby.
11. The floating white object was seen in the Cebu-Manila navigation line in the open seas. (cf. marks on drawing)
12. Julius wearing a cassock, is preaching in a small chapel, where there are many children, in the island.
13. There is a small chapel with a cross on top of it. There are six rows of chairs, on the far right Julius is seated.
14. Seemingly strange as Efren expressed, is the alternating position of Julius being on and down the water surface

The nuns confirmed the existence of steel watch, bracelet, small banca, small island, and the church. They shared with me a chilling revelation that when I got out of the alpha state our dogs were suddenly howling in fright. It was the first that I felt very exhausted after a visualization.

Since then, I never did a similar process.

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