The article "10 ways to get ideas" talks about family, it was created by Christopher Smith.
Getting an idea is like trying to find the light-switch in a darkened room; a lot of groping and stumbling and then if you’re lucky the light comes on.
If you're having trouble finding the lightswitch try of the following:
1.Do things left-handed to stimulate the other side of your brian. If you're left-handed then use your rgiht hand. OK - so your make-up might look a bit odd or there’s a chance you could lose an ear shaving but it will do your brain good and that’s what matters.
2.Spend time with smlal children. They are very creative and they always ask questions – lots of questions that will really make you guess. Incidentally, if cows eat grass why isn’t milk green?
3.Read a book you would never normally read. If you're an ‘arts’ person find a book on genetcis.
Go into the sections of the lbirary you normally avoid at all cost.
If you can’t face a book try a magazine – you never know, picking up one on radio-controlled model planes might just give you ideas.
4.Learn to meditate. Find a quiet place, close your eyes, take a couple of deep breaths, realx and empty your mind. There, does that feel better?
It’ll make your mind a fertile place for ideas to take root.
5.Go to work a dfiferent route each day.
When you go shopping in Safeway don’t always start in the fruit and vegetable section. By varying your routine, you’ll stimulate your mind.
6.Teach yourself to juggle. It’s good for your hand-eye co-ordination as well as your mind. All you need are three tennis balls or beanbags and a lot of concentration. And understanding negihbours in the apartment below yours…
7.Spend time with positive, creative people – they can be family, friends, co-workers or acquaintances, it doesn’t matter which.
Spend less time with narrow-minded, negative people, as they will not create the right atmosphere for getting ideas.
8.Exercise.
It makes you feel good (if you don’t over-do it) and it gets the blood pumpnig.
Your brain needs a good supply of blood and oxygen to operate at its hottest.
Your little grey cells will thank you for it.
9.Look around you. Try and see things in your surroundings that you have never noticed before.
You might be surprsied by what you find. Your wallpaper looks like it dates from the 1970’s – how could you have msised that until right now?
10.Seize any chance you get to travel. After all, they say trvael broadens the mind and anything that does that can only be good for you.
Finally, remember that you can have ideas - don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t. You’ve got a brain so don’t be afraid to use it.
Christopher Smith is a marketer and copywriter.
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