Troubleshoot Your Mind For Better Business Ideas
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This document provides tips for generating new business ideas by feeding your creative mind fresh experiences, environments, questions, expectations, and skills. It discusses how idea blocks can arise from a lack of fresh inputs and bad habits like excessive TV, lack of exercise, never being alone, not writing ideas down, and more. The document recommends proactive strategies to avoid blocks, such as quiet thinking time each morning, meeting with like-minded people weekly, taking walks without your phone, getting enough sleep, taking online courses in new topics, and feeding your mind fresh content. The overall message is that introducing fresh inputs keeps your creative thinking unblocked.
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Troubleshoot Your Mind For Better Business Ideas
- 1. TROUBLESHOOT YOU MIND FOR BETTER BUSINESS IDEAS 2 JUNE 2016
- 2. Hello!I AM Nicolette I’m a Business Creativity and Innovation Trainer. You can find me at: @nickionideas
- 3. So you want to come up with great ideas Ideas that will make your customers rave about you?
- 4. “You have to be really courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you’ll just knuckle under and things that might have been memorable will be lost. Francis Ford Coppola
- 5. BIG CONCEPT But where can good ideas be found?
- 6. You pick up a sheet of paper and a pen and … all you do is stare at it.
- 7. The longer you stare at it, the less inspired you are
- 8. You know that your business depends on good ideas to be able to compete effectively. But the creative parts of your brain are constipated…
- 9. “Welcome to the desert of Idea Blocks
- 10. A land full of pain, peril, confusion and frustration!
- 11. “It doesn’t have to be, unblocking your creative mind is a challenge, but it can be a fun challenge.
- 12. As long as you understand what causes it and what to do about it, you don’t have to worry.
- 13. Where do Idea Blocks Come from? Unlike other blockages we experience as humans, Idea blocks aren’t caused by having too much of something, but too little.
- 14. Remember THIS ○ Your mind is like a computer ○ You put something in ○ It processes it ○ You get something out
- 15. So if you want ideas You need to put something in.
- 16. So if you want fresh ideas what should you do?
- 17. Feed it something fresh. Why does it need fresh?
- 18. Imagine Your Brain Is a Chef
- 19. If it uses fresh ingredients you’ll enjoy what it produces if it doesn’t… let’s just say you won’t like it…
- 20. 5 types of freshness your creative brain needs #1 Fresh Experiences- What new experiences have you had lately • TV • Social Media • Pub OR • Join a latin dance class • Go watch a theatre production or play • Go to a music or cultural festival #2 Fresh Environments- Have you been anywhere new of late? • Office • Couch at home • Kitchen at home • Bed at home OR ○Take a walk (outside your house) ○Explore other areas of the city you live in ○Travel a bit #3 Fresh Questions Are you still asking the same old questions? • How do I save more money? • How do I make more money? • How do I cope with customer complaints? OR • How do I make my products more fun? • How can I surprise my customers? • How can I make people want to talk to me personally as the owner of this company?
- 21. #4 Fresh Expectations • How will my business survive another month? • How many customers will I lose this month? • How much will fuel prices rise at the pumps? OR • How can I ensure that my business culture is so great, people look forward to coming to work? • How can I get customers to share their great experiences with others? • How can I make the use of company cars so efficiently, that it doesn’t matter what is happening at the pump? #5 Fresh skills • Changing the channel while patting the dogs head • Checking the kids homework while burning/making dinner • Making washing the car a fun game for your kids OR • Get a hobby, and learn to make something • Learn a new language • Learn basic design
- 22. Be on the offensive not on the defensive
- 23. Being on the defensive usually means you’re under pressure
- 24. It gets harder to think when you are under pressure.
- 25. When You’re on the offensive, you’re taking charge of your mind and being proactive.
- 27. 15 Bad habits that lead to idea blocks
- 28. #1 Watching too much TV #2 Not exercising #3 Never being quiet or alone #4 Running all your ideas past someone #5 Not getting enough sleep #6 Drinking too much caffeine #7 Not drinking enough caffeine
- 29. #8 Not hanging out with a different crowd # 9 Not taking breaks from hectic schedules #10 Beating yourself up #11 Being on your phone all the time #12 Eating junk all the time #13 Not writing your ideas #14 Not having all your ideas in one place #15 drinking too much alcohol
- 30. What can you do right now To make sure you don’t get blocked in the first place?
- 31. #1 Get up 15 minutes early to have quiet times to do “Free Fall Thinking”
- 32. #2 Get Inspired, by meeting up with likeminded people once a week
- 33. #3 Take short 20 minute walks, 3 times a week (without your phone)
- 34. #4 Get 8 hours of sleep, at least 3 times a week
- 35. #5 Get on Youtube and look for videos on something you’ve been curious about for a while
- 36. #6 Sign-up to do an online course, on something you’ve never done before, look on places like Udemy or Coursera.
- 37. Remember, when it comes to unblocking your mind
- 38. It’s all about giving it fresh ingredients to work with.