Are you trying to start a business? Find the best way to market your small business? Figure out how to get your daily tasks completed while still have time for marketing your business, time for family, time for yourself? All of these problems/tasks can be solved. How do you make the changes necessary to accomplish all of these tasks? It all comes down to a different perspective.
The hardest thing for all of us to realize is that we can be creative all the time. We set up the blocks ourselves by creating imaginary limits for ourselves. How do you break out of this type of thinking? I use a list I found from Brian Clark @ copyblogger. It helps me remember that the barriers to a new idea are all in my head and I can break through them.
List of ways we create blocks to suppress our creativity:
1) Trying to find the “Right” answer: We are taught in school that there is one right answer for a question. In real life issues are ambiguous. There is often more than one “correct” answer to any question. Sometimes, the second or third solution you come up with is better than the first. Try to ask the question in several different ways. Every new question can provide you with a different answer to the question.
2) Destroying the rules can help you find a solution. When following others “Rules” ask yourself “why” or “why not”. This is difficult because most people defend their “Rules” even if it is obvious those “Rules” are making them successful. Quit worshipping rule breakers and start breaking some rules.
3) Utilize Play to help you think of a creative solution to that nagging problem. Play doesn’t have to happen only when you are away from work. Try to use the mindset of “play” when thinking through how to market your business.
4) Is everything Black and White? Believing it is can lead to disaster. Embracing ambiguity is the way to differentiate yourself from most of the crowd.
5) What if I’m Wrong? We all hate to be wrong. We all know of stories where people who were wrong again and again finally succeed beyond their wildest dreams. What is different about these individuals? They keep trying and they give themselves the “ok” to be wrong.
“Acknowledge that you’re inherently creative, and then start tearing down the other barriers you’ve allowed to be created in your mind.” Brian Clark
If you need help breaking down these blocks, give me a call. We can work together to come up with creative ways to accomplish your tasks, so you can get back to doing what you love.
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