How to have ideas
There are some techniques which are proven to help you come up with ideas - here are a few of my favourites.
We all need ideas - how to entertain the children on a rainy day, what to buy for Christmas gifts and ideas for blog posts promoting your business.
Many people believe 'being creative' and great at coming up with ideas is an innate skills - I disagree. There are some techniques which are proven to help you come up with ideas - here are a few of my favourites.
Empty your brain
If you're using your brain as a 'to do' list it will be too busy to have ideas. Your brain has a limit.
Download all your jobs, plans, worries, shopping lists somewhere else to free up brain space. I'm a big fan of post it notes and emailing myself.
Whatever works for you works for you. The important part is getting it out of your head.
Separate creating and editing
Get all your ideas down and edit out the really bad ones later. You can't create and edit at the same time.
Sometimes this will lead to crushing disappointment when you revisit your ideas and discover your ideas aren't as life-changingly glorious as you thought but it's still better to separate creation and editing.
Go somewhere new
Do something new, change your commute, listen to new music, speak to a stranger, look around a gallery. In short find something new to stimulate your brain.
Ask friends, family, customers, your weird neighbour
Now is not the time for thinking of stranger danger. Every single person you have seen today has a completely different view on life to you. everyone looks a life through a different lens and with vastly different life experience to influence how we interpret exactly the same experience. Speak to people, the more different you the better.
Let me help
I'll bring a fresh pair of eyes and lot of experience coming up with creative solutions. Why not get in contact and I can pick up the creative slack.
The most important tip of all...
Whatever you do, however you get your ideas, WRITE THEM DOWN. Do not trust your memory, do not think you'll find it impossible to forget. You're busy, your brain is busy. Your great idea is only valuable if you use it - for that to happen you must remember it!