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You’ve heard of thinking outside of the box, that splendid practice of seeking unconventional answers to problems, freeing yourself from constraints, and brainstorming your way to the new and exciting.

It’s wonderful, but our typical thought grooves are often firmly imprinted, and thinking our way to better thinking can be as difficult as pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, or by your hair, for Baron Munchhausen fans.

So, how can we more capably think out of the box?

Don’t do it!

Instead, try boxing out of the think!

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Do you often feel you’re creating alone in a silent abyss?

Do you sometimes wonder if your creative work is like that riddle of the tree in the forest – “If a tree falls in a forest and there’s no-one around to hear it, does it still make a sound?

Applied this to your creative life and you may wonder - if I’m creating beautiful work but no-one’s experiencing it and able to appreciate it, have I actually been creating at all??

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Do you have a great idea to can raise the bottom line of the company you work for? Such an idea could be to raise productivity, lower the cost of production or a clever idea to raise staff morale. In the past, you may have a frustrating experience when your idea was rejected or ignored. The reason could be that nobody told you “the secret“. When a great idea pops into our head, the next step is to sell your idea so that others will buy into it. Here are seven important steps that you can take in that process;

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You may have heard and read much in the last few years regarding creativity and innovation.. Or you may even have attended a creativity workshop that you found interesting, fun and helped you come up with some new ideas. Now your current employer may be requiring innovative input. However, you find that your suggestions are mostly ignored or frowned upon. This is mainly because nobody has told you the ‘the secret’.

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Thomas Edison, “Creativity is 99% perspiration and one percent inspiration.” You notice there is a reference to actual work in there. A lot of people have a mistaken idea of what creativity is. People assume an artist is creative because they are an artist and because of the subject area that they are interested in, and that’s not true! People view artists as creative because they are in the habit of being creative, but it’s not their subject area that makes them creative. The shift that people need to make is that it’s not what you think, it’s how you think.

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Clients! Without them there would be no headaches, no demands, no issues, and no revenue coming into the business! How many times do I hear it in the halls of small business during my travels in the market today? “Those clients seem to get in the way of our running our business” stated one business owner that I spoke with recently.

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