Innovative Techniques for Planning Your 2008

Innovator’s Digest focuses on innovation within business; but their Technique-of-the-Week tips easily apply to improving your own life. Here are 3 fun and useful exercises that will help you prep for 2008:

• Predict next year’s headlines—with the headlines being about you! What might happen in 2008? This technique allows you to identify where you truly want to be. It’s similar to that time-honored exercise of writing your obituary only more quick and short term.
• Challenge your assumptions—such as if you’re saying you can’t do XYZ for whatever reason. Imagine ending every wall you put up with a “Why not?” instead of “Not.”
  • Step 1: Write down at least three assumptions you’re making about the problem to be solved.
  • Step 2: Now challenge each assumption by stating it’s opposite (or its negative).
  • Step 3: Write down any potential benefits or ideas that spring from you challenge to the assumptions.
• Use music to let your mind flow. Record a creativity concert to free your mind. Here’s how.

These ideas come to you from SolutionPeople, a company which over 20 years has helped innovators generate over 2 million ideas valued at over $2 billion U.S. dollars.

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