Simple Methods for Generating Great Ideas

Your brain has an amazing ability to generate ideas. But, it's not always easy to access them. Few things are more frustrating than needing an original idea, but not being able to come up with one.

Like many other things in life, generating great ideas requires practice to be able to do it consistently.

Unfortunately, most of us are only looking for good ideas when we're in a tough spot. The added pressure can make it even more challenging to come up with a good idea.

We typically don’t work as well under pressure as we do when relaxed.

Practice these techniques to improve your ability to generate useful ideas:

1. Set an intention.
Decide each day that you’re going to be creative.

Each morning, tell yourself that you’re going to generate some great ideas today.

You’ll be much more likely to be successful, just as if you reminded yourself to notice all the blue cars that crossed your path today.

2. Try a new environment.
The same environment leads to the same thoughts and behaviors. Put yourself in a new environment if you want to have new ideas.

Spend the night at a hotel. Take a trip to the city. Go to the park.

Walk around a cemetery. Sit in a chair in your backyard if you rarely get out there.

3. Write in a journal.
Writing generates thinking. It also creates space in your brain for new thoughts.

Get the old thoughts out of the way and you’ll begin thinking about something new.

Make a habit of writing in a journal each day.

4. Get online.
Cruise around the internet. Spend some time on sites you wouldn’t normally visit. Watch some videos. Look at some photos.

Read a few blogs on topics relevant to your creative need. There’s so much available online.

5. Set aside time each day for idea generation.
Just as you might set aside time to hit the gym, set aside a time to generate great ideas. Be clear on the topic and desired outcome.

“I want to find the optimal solution regarding the delivery issues my business is suffering.”

You’re bound to come up with some great ideas if you do this each day. When you practice generating great ideas, you become good at it.

6. Skim books on the topic.
It’s not necessary to read every word to find a new idea, but you could.

Skim through a few books and see if something triggers a new idea. Maybe someone already has a great idea you can use.

Do you regularly have good ideas? Whether you do or not, you can definitely strengthen that ability. Creativity requires practice, and few of us get regular practice.

We’re only looking for solutions when we have a pressing problem. This is shortsighted.

Spend time each day looking for the best possible solutions to the challenges in your life, no matter how small they might be.

Build your idea-generating muscles, so they’ll be ready when you need them.

Simple Ways to Have a More Productive Day

The more you get done each day, the more success you can experience.

You also give yourself the opportunity to have more free time, too. Time always seems to be in short supply.

If you get more out of your day, you’re making better use of your time.

Increasing your productivity can have a positive effect on your professional and personal life.

Use these tips to get more done in less time:

1. Plan.
To get the most out of any day, it’s important to know what you’re going to do before the day begins.

Decide how you're going to spend your day the night before. That way, you can get busy accomplishing things first thing in the morning.

2. Get up earlier.
You'll be surprised how much more you can accomplish and how much better you feel about the day if you start your day a little bit earlier.

Many of the most productive and successful people in the world share the habit of rising early.

3. Turn off social media.
Social media is a time-waster. Set aside a time in the evening to catch up with your friends and family, but avoid wasting too much time on this type of activity.

It's a huge mistake to engage in social media during work hours. You have more productive things to spend your time on.

4. Say, “no” more often.
It's easier to be productive in a meaningful way if you're attempting to do fewer things each day.

Be willing to say no to tasks, obligations, and people that get in the way of your productivity. Make it a point to leverage your time as well as you can.

Make a list of how you actually spend your time in an average day. Do you see any activities you can eliminate?

Saying, “no” can also mean refusing yourself the opportunity to waste your time on meaningless activities.

5. Get as much done as possible early in the day.
If you can get a lot done in the morning, the rest of the day will go well, too.

However, if you struggle to accomplish anything early in the day, the rest of the day usually goes poorly also. This is part of the reason why it's so important to have a plan and to get up early.

6. Stick to one task at a time.
Multitasking is for people that don't want to be productive.

Choose one task, complete it, and then move on to a new task. Many studies have shown that multitasking is ineffective.

How productive are you? How would your life improve if you got more done each day?

Most of us could use a couple more hours each day. Unfortunately, no one has found a practical way to alter time. However, you can learn to make better use of the time you have.

You’re probably not as productive as you could be. Spend a month being more productive and see how it changes your life.

How to Implement Self-Help Ideas Into Your Life

It’s easy to feel energized and excited when you stumble on a new self-help idea that you’re convinced is going to be the missing piece to the puzzle of your life.

Unfortunately, you’ve probably felt this way many times before.

In fact, there are people that refer to themselves as “self-help junkies.” They can’t wait to add another self-help book to their library.

It’s very easy to find information you don’t already know. It’s much more challenging to apply it successfully to your life.

Put your self-help knowledge to work with these strategies:

1. Emphasize taking action.
The natural inclination of many people, especially those that are intelligent, is to put too much emphasis on knowledge.

We’d rather read another book or do more pondering on the subject than actually put the information to use.

Whether you need to make more money, lose weight, add to your social circle, or strengthen your communication skills, it’s not complicated.

You’re better off practicing what you’ve learned already than reading another book on the topic.

2. Start slowly.
Drastic change is exceptionally difficult to maintain. A few small changes each week is enough to drastically alter your life over the next year.

Avoid feeling like you have to completely revamp your life overnight. Not only will you be miserable, you’ll almost certainly fail miserably.

Set an easy goal for the next month and reach it as gently as you can. Run with that momentum and be a little bolder the next month.

3. Focus on building habits.
99% of the less desirable attributes of your life didn’t happen overnight.

The painful areas of your life are the result of poor decisions repeated for an extended period of time. The solution is to make more effective decisions over a long period of time.

With the proper set of habits, any result you desire can be virtually guaranteed.

4. Focus on the area of your life that will have the biggest impact.
Suppose your income was sufficient to meet your immediate needs, but you were 100 pounds overweight and suffering from Type-2 diabetes.

It wouldn’t make a lot of sense to focus more on increasing your income.

Attend to the part of your life that’s furthest removed from being tolerable. Get every aspect of your life to a tolerable level before reaching for anything above average.

5. Ask yourself how you can apply the information to your life.
Many self-help materials are very theoretical. They have great ideas, but it’s not always clear on how to apply them to your life.

As you’re reading, listening, or thinking, ask yourself how you can use the information to enhance your life.

Understanding the information is necessary, but insufficient. It must be applied to be useful. Brainstorm ways to use what you’re learning.

6. Create a routine.
It’s easy to get all excited at first and then realize a month later that you haven’t done anything for the last two weeks.

Develop a self-help routine just like you would a workout routine. Make applying the information you learn a regular occurrence.

Most of us know how to solve the majority of our most pressing issues. We just can’t figure out how to get ourselves to take action consistently.

Learning how to apply the information you know is a skill in itself. Start slowly and build habits that bring results automatically.

In the end, success is about using your time wisely each day. You can’t help but get great results if you perform effective actions over and over.

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