It Came To Me In The Shower
Creative thoughts and ideasArchive for August, 2010
Chicken Soup in the Shower
It’s hard to believe that with more than 112 million copies of Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield sold that he ever worried if the book would catch on enough for him to reach his goal of $100,000. Jack had sent an intention to reach his goal not knowing exactly how he would reach it. The inspiration and idea came to him in the shower one day. He thought if he could sell 400,000 copies at just $0.25 each, then he would reach his goal. When in the grocery store he saw the National Enquirer in the checkout line. With their large circulation, he could reach enough people that he could accomplish his goal.
After speaking to a group of New York teachers, he was approached by a freelance writer for the National Enquirer. The story must have done its job because he made $92,327 – close enough to his goal that he considered that inspired thought in the shower to have led him down the right path.
An Ocean of Inspiration
The Inner Voyage Cruise line is part workshop and part vacation and the idea for it all came to Peter Einstein (Whole Planet Tours and Conferences) in the shower. In an interview with Randy Peyser, Einstein states, “It came to me as a vision. I had gone to sleep with the idea of trying to dream about a solution to make intuition and consciousness more accessible to the mainstream. When I woke up, I heard the word, ‘environment,’ in my head, but I had no idea what that meant. My wife is an intuition trainer. One of the things she teaches people is to take a shower to open one’s intuition because the water helps you to ‘go with the flow.’ I was in the shower, and all of a sudden I had this vision of lots of happy people on a cruise ship. I realized if the people were happy, that must mean the event would be successful. So I decided to create a combination vacation and workshop conference aboard a ship.”
The first cruise in 1997 drew 120 people. Today Einstein’s Inner Voyage Cruises have been attended by thousands of people. Top motivational speakers and life coaches on their faculty have included Hale Dwoskin (The Sedoan Method), Mari Shimoff (Chicken Soup for the Women’s Soul), and many more experts teaching yoga, mediation and the core classes of transformational learning.
As If By Chance
I found Aquanotes from someone on Facebook after we had started this site and have to share their story..
AquaNotes® and Aqua LoveNotes® are products of Calmar Consulting Corporation.
The idea for waterproof notepads came from a Shower Thinker who always generated his best ideas and insights in the tranquility and solitude of a nice warm shower.
He began keeping a standard notepad and pencil outside his shower door to capture those ideas. Invariably, they ended up soggy, torn, and oftentimes illegible before he could get them back to his office. He experimented with a variety of waterproof writing apparatuses before his idea evolved into AquaNotes®….a waterproof note pad with paper that could easily be removed from the pad and taken with him to the office or on an errand.
The development of AquaNotes® made this Shower Thinker’s life more complete. But, in truth, he had only begun to understand the concept of “complete”. After reuniting with a long-lost love, he married and a new necessity arose…the need to have a special water-proof notepad on which to leave love notes in the shower for his new, wonderful bride. That’s when Aqua LoveNotes®was created.
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