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Critical Skill 5B: Sparking Spectacular Ideas

May 22, 2006 by Liz Leave a Comment

Spectacular Ideas

Future Skills

Do you recognize where we are? We’ve been here before. This is the place where I tell you that ideas are already in your head, that it’s a matter of letting yourself have them — not shutting them out. It’s when I remind you that you can be an idea magnet again. I tell you that ideas are waiting for you. I ask you if you’ve started seeing and hearing them.

Whew! Now that the déjà vu is over. We can get on with sparking spectacular ideas.

Caution: Now Entering Liz Think Zone

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Filed Under: Idea Bank, Motivation, Outside the Box, Personal Branding, Successful Blog, Writing Tagged With: bc, Critical_Skills, future_skills, original_ideas, originality, personal-branding, thinking_outside_of_the_box, value_added, wow

Critical Skill 5A: 3 Parts of Spectacular Ideas

May 21, 2006 by Liz Leave a Comment

Originality

Future Skills

When I compiled this list of ten critical skills, it was an original list — the list came from my head not from the Internet, not from some book. I’ve done continuous work on thinking skills for years so it wasn’t a huge hardship to think some more on the skills I consider critical. Is any one idea original? No. Not one on that list is unique or spectacular. The value-added is that I put them together and pointed the need to have them for success.

Originality Versus Spectacular

Originality is often how we look at things. The most original thought I’ve encountered — that hasn’t been around for years — was my six-year-old son’s drawing of the solar system as if he were standing on Pluto, looking in toward the sun. Even that was just a new take on a picture that’s been around for a long, long time.

True originality –a brand new idea — is hard to come by, but that’s okay. It rarely works in business. True originality is expensive and rarely sells. As good as I am with ideas I’ve learned if I find one that has been done before, tha it’s because of one of three reasons. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Idea Bank, Outside the Box, Personal Branding, Strategy/Analysis, Successful Blog, Writing Tagged With: bc, Critical_Skills, future_skills, original_ideas, originality, thinking_outside_of_the_box, value_added, wow

Stop. Listen. Hear that Idea?

May 10, 2006 by Liz 17 Comments

It Happens Constantly

Finding Ideas Outside of the Box logo 2

I can almost count on it happening. When I’m stuck on how to write something, when I really need some direction on how to frame a concept, I just start listening for one. Sure enough in a day or two, someone will say something.

I was working on the post for Critical Skill 5: Originality — no small task I might add. How do you talk about being original? I did my usual walking and thinking, but most of my way to original thinking is intuitive, hard to explain in words.

I like challenges, but sometimes they make my head hurt. So I put my question to the universe and left myself open to any answer it might bring me. Sure enough, it did within a couple of hours.
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Filed Under: Idea Bank, Marketing /Sales / Social Media, Outside the Box, Successful Blog, Writing Tagged With: bc, Critical_Skills, future_skills, original_ideas, originality, thinking_outside_of_the_box, value_added, wow

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