Creative Thinking – The Key To Success: Mental Strength Tip #175

Personal success is achieved through the disciplined execution of a fully established personal development plan which includes creative thinking.

This virtual personal coaching session is to assist you in your creative thinking to enhance your self-improvement, personal growth and personal development.

It is intended to create self-empowerment within and inspire you to take action so that you can reach your personal goals and personal success.

I take a personal growth topic, in this creative thinking, and give an overview about it.  Then I’ll continue by asking a series of mental strength questions.  I’ll wrap-up with a summary and some final thoughts.

Take your time with this topic, carefully consider your responses to the questions and write them down.  Personal growth is not supposed to be easy, it takes courage to face yourself.  But when you develop the courage and mental strength to do actually this, you will be building confidence.

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Objective of this Mental Strength Tip on Creative Thinking:

To help you realize that your greatest asset in business and life is your ability for creative thinking.

Let’s Get Started:

Creative thinking is the process we use to develop ideas that are unique, useful and worthy of further elaboration

• Creative Thinkers
• Ways to enhance your creative abilities
• Brainstorming
• Practice Creative Thinking
• First steps in open ended problem solving
• Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Open ended problem solving

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Creative Thinking:

• Do you believe your ability to think is your greatest asset?
• Why is thinking the highest paid work?
• Is it possible to become a better thinker, or is it something you’re born with?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Creative Thinking:

• No one really gets paid to think.
• Thinking isn’t real work.
• Getting paid to think is unfair to people who have to work for a living.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Creative Thinking:

• Creative problem solving is the hardest work of all.
• Solving problems creates wealth.
• Great thinkers are society’s most valuable citizens.

Outrageous Questions about Creative Thinking:

• If you were a better thinker, would you be making more money?
• What are three things you could implement today to become a more creating thinker?
• How much time do you spend in solitude thinking?

Reflective Questions about Creative Thinking:

• Is it possible your biggest source of stress could be eliminated through more creative thinking?
• Could more creative thinking make your life easier?
• What new beliefs would you have to embrace in order to invest more time in creative thinking?

Mental Strength Coaching on Creative Thinking:

The concept of getting paid to think violates the average person’s beliefs about work.

Creative Thinkers:

• Consider rejecting standardized formats for problem solving.
• Have an interest in a wide range of related and divergent fields.
• Take multiple perspectives on a problem.
• Use trial-and-error methods in their experimentation.
• Have a future orientation.
• Have self-confidence and trust in their own judgment.

Creative Thinking Questions

• What would exist that does not exist now?
• What would be happening that does not happen now?
• What decisions would be made and executed?
• What accomplishments would be in place that are not now?
• What patterns of behavior that currently in place would be eliminated?

Final Thought about Creative Thinking:

Improving Your Creative Abilities

• Keep track of your ideas at all times. Many times ideas come at unexpected times. If an idea is not written down within 24 hours it will usually be forgotten

• Pose new questions to yourself every day. An inquiring mind is a creatively active one that enlarges its area of awareness.

• Keep abreast of your field. Read the magazines, trade journals, and other literature in your field to make sure you are not using yesterday’s technology to solve toady’s problems.

• Engage in creative hobbies. Hobbies can also help you relax. An active mind is necessary for creative growth.

• Have courage and self-confidence. Be a paradigm pioneer. Assume that you can and will indeed solve the problem Persist and have the tenacity to overcome obstacles that block the solution pathway.

• Learn to know and understand yourself. Deepen your self-knowledge by learning your real strengths, skills, weaknesses, dislike, biases, expectations, fears and prejudices.

• Learn about things outside your specialty. Use cross-fertilization to bring ideas and concepts from one field or specialty to another.

• Avoid rigid, set patterns of doing things. Overcome biases and preconceived notions by looking at the problem from a fresh view point, always developing at least two or more alternative solutions to your problem.

• Be open and receptive to ideas (yours and others). New ideas are fragile; keep them from breaking by seizing on the tentative, half formed concepts and possibilities and developing them.

• Be alert in your observations. Look for similarities, differences, as well as unique and distinguishing features in situations and problems.

• Adopt a risk taking attitude. Fear of failure is the major impediment to generating solutions which are risky (i.e., small chance of succeeding) but would have a major impact if they are successful. Outlining the ways you could fail and how you would deal with these failures will reduce this obstacle to creativity.

• Keep your sense of humor. You are more creative when you are relaxed. Humor aids in putting your problems (and yourself) in perspective. Many times it relieves tension and makes you more relaxed.

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