By Judi Singleton / Published on August 12th, 2007 / Health & Medical
When we are born we are all authentic, spontenous and creative.Somewhere along the lines we lose it. We began to solve problems in ways that people before us solved them. Our education tends in this direction. Typically, we think on the basis of similar problems encountered in the past. When we are confronted with a challenge we tend to think how did I solve this last time? Then we go in a fixed line to solve it without considering new ways we may solve this problem. Once we think we know how to solve a challenge we tend to stick to trying to solve each challenge in this way until proven wrong.
Now creative people don't go about solving challenges this way they look for all the ways one might solve a challenge not throwing out any of them until they know they don't work.

Try this pretend you are a five year old looking at this challenge how would you see it?
What If you were from another country how would you see this challenge?
What if you were from another planet how would you see this challenge?
Go out for a walk go into stores that you would never visit try and have an open mind and start trying to associate look for new ways of looking at things sometimes we find answers in unfamilar territory

Do some doodling and associate between objects, ideas, events, people,
or processes that you have never thought of in that way before.
Write out different aspects of the situation make the familar strange and the strange familar.
Try and ask questions of the situation to clarify it. Great questions can solve the mystery.

Now it is time to narrow down the possibilities.
Try ordering possibilities by ranking them against a pre-established criteria.
Once likely possibilities have been found they can be expanded into better ideas.
Find the week spots in the ideas ways that they could possibly fail.

Take action, ideas are only ideas until they are put into action.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Judi Singleton is the owner and publisher of seven blogs visit her blogs here
http://creativeimaginationblog.blogspot.com
http://bewellnow.blogspot.com
http://herbalharvest.blogspot.com
http://anangelonmyshoulder.blogspot.com
http://alightinthewindow.blogspot.com
http://goddessgospel.blogspot.com
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