How to Coach Yourself and Others Techniques For Coaching

Step 3. Start combining the variables together to try to come up with some novel ideas. Step 4. Analyze the ideas and decide which one to pursue. Creativity Tip Hang a sign in a prominent place where you'll be sure to see it every day that says "Create or die!". The Big Dip "Idea Sandbox" has a free problem solving tool called "The Big Dig". You just click to scoop suggestions, such as: "Consider double-checking that you're solving the right problem. Is there a more significant one you're overlooking?" Gator Break Take a Gator Break. Here's one: "If at first an idea is not absurd, then there's no hope for it." - Albert Einstein Reconsider the old. Redesign something you see all the time (a stop sign, a penny, etc.). This forces you to look at old things in a new wayand challenges you to try different design approaches. Creativity Tip Follow Ernest Hemingway's advice: "Write the truest sentence you know." Writer's Block More Ways to Get Unblocked Mixing It Up Down Under: Creativity Unblocked "When I can't begin or when I can't progress it is usually my inner perfectionist raising her ugly-but-well-maintained head. I have become too precious about the project, sometimes it is just an idea but already I see it as sooooo wonderful that I could not possibly do it justice. I become blocked." 490

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