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10 Innovative Ways To Get Yourself Out of A Mindblock
For a long time, I guess I’m running such problem that’s mind block. I sort out the problem and today I’m reading another one cool posts and where cleraly disclosed for what reasons it can happen to anyone. If you’ve in such problem, this post might help you out.
Alex Monroe is the founder of GetYourBizSavvy.com, a source for entrepreneurs featuring interviews with leading entrepreneurs from around the world.
We all have great ideas, but finding them is the difficult part. When you can’t think of an article to write, a way to attract more readers, or the next chapter of your book, you’re suffering from a mind block. What do I do, is the question you might ask yourself. It is important to get you thinking, get your mind in motion. Here are ten steps to keep you innovating.1. Newspapers/Magazines
Pick up a few newspapers and magazines and start flipping through pages. Search everything including advertisements and classifieds. Read the articles that are really interesting. The New York Post always offers an odd article and their cartoons are great. Cartoons can even help you relate to something and come up with an idea.
2. Blogs
There is pretty much a blog on everything. Search blogs similar to the content you offer. Read the RSS feeds of your favorite blogs. Maybe find a new blog in a completely different field. All these will help you create ideas.
3. Books
Read something. Learn about something you never knew about. Getting knowledge on a new subject will create a lot of opportunities.
4. Music
Insert the mixtape that you love and groove to. Music is motivational, inspirational and symbolic. If you don’t think of something while you’re listening and bopping your head, you might learn something within the lyrics.
5. Phone a friend
Call someone you can talk to and also listen to. Ask them about problems they have been facing or if they have anything exciting to talk about. They might say one thing and it will click for you.
6. Ask the audience
This is starting to sound like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire! In all serious though, ask your audience. Bloggers, write a post asking the readers what they want to see from you. Ask for feedback. Let them know what you want to do and ask for ideas. Remember that the readers are the one’s keeping you going, so they will love that.
7. Go for a walk
Fresh air is a beautiful thing. Take deep breaths of it. Get your blood flowing and the ideas will come too.
8. Meditate
Just relax and let go. Go to another place. Come back once that innovation wakes you up.
9. Eat
Mmm…cheeseburger and french fries. According to The Thinking Business, proteins and carbohydrates are essential in business. They explain that carbohydrates leave you feeling “calm and relaxed” and proteins “improve mental performance”. After a good meal, your brain will be back on track.
10. Get your mind off it completely
If nothing seems to be working for you, it might be because you give yourself no down time. You give your work time, but you don’t give yourself time. YOU time is extremely important because it gets your mind off your work. You have been working so hard being innovative that you exhausted your resources. Go to the movies, play a sport, watch some movies, and then when you return to your work the next day you will feel refreshed and ready to exhaust yourself again.
You know what to do now. You have ten ways to get innovative. Now do it!
Content Credit goes to Jhon, Alex Monroe & 10 Innovative Ways To Get Yourself Out of a Mindblock.
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What It Takes To Be An Overnight Success
I’m coming across another one interesting post of Chris Brogan. Just want to share it.
I thought about the inanity of waking up at 5:45AM after going to bed around 12:45AM and not really falling asleep until closer to 3AM. I thought about what it means to me to be working so hard. I thought about WHY I’m working so hard. Somewhere in my head, I thought about every time in the last few months where someone said I was an overnight success or “but you’re Chris Brogan” and how silly that is when you realize all that I’ve been through and all that it took me to get there. Here’s a quick video:
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Why Entrepreneurs Shouldn’t Write Business Plans
I’m just comping from Neil Patel’s blog and he shared an existing posts. Given below,
I was reading an article on the New York Times blog today that breaks down why all entrepreneurs should write business plans.
Careful academic research on the business start-up process reveals that many entrepreneurs never write a business plan.
These studies also show that writing a business plan helps entrepreneurs in a number of ways, including improving their odds of successfully developing a new product, organizing a company, accessing external capital, obtaining raw materials, generating sales and surviving over time. Regardless of what measure of performance academics have looked at, research shows that writing a business plan has a positive impact.
I am not a fan of writing business plans! I have started a fair amount of companies and have never written a business plan. Now you could say that is the reason why a lot of my businesses failed, but I could make the argument that financially I’ve still came ahead.
Here is why I think you shouldn’t write a business plan:
Business plans ≠ Funding
If you are trying to raise money, you’re probably considering writing a business plan, right? Well I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I don’t know anyone who has raised money from writing a business plan.
Roughly 30 of my close friends have taken some sort of venture capital or private equity financing. And none of them raised that money by writing a business plan.
Most of them did make a power point presentation and a few even wrote executive summaries, but they didn’t write business plans.
Remember, most investors don’t want to invest in a “plan” they want to invest in a business that is up and running. You don’t have to be making money, but they want to see something more than just a piece of paper.
And if a potential investor happens to request a business plan from you, ask them if they are actually going to take the time to carefully read through it. The chances are, they won’t even skim it.
You can’t predict the future
You can try and plan for the future, but your plan will never account for everything. Things change, so why would you waste your time writing a document that won’t be up-to-date.
Or if you want to take it to the next level, why would you start writing a plan that will never be complete? Your business will constantly evolve and change, and if you want your business plan to stay up-to-date, you’ll constantly have to modify it.
Once you start your company, you’ll soon realize that a lot of decisions will have to be made on the fly and that you are going to have to rely on your intuition. There is no a written document can help you with any of this.
Time is money
According to the U.S. Small Business Administration over 50% of small businesses fail in the first 5 years because of lack of capital and lack of entrepreneurial experience.
As I mentioned above, writing a plan isn’t going to help you get capital. And if you are looking to gain experience, you are better off spending time working on your business than writing a plan.
The biggest reason I never wrote a business plan is that it takes my time away from the business. I am a doer and spending weeks on something that has no proof on impacting the success of my company is a waste of time.
If you have somewhat of an understanding of what you are going to do and where you plan on taking your business, you should spend all of your time acting on it. Writing a plan will just slow you down from succeeding.
The businesses world has changed
For a moment, think about all of the things that have changed in the past year. A lot has changed, right?
And now, take a moment and think about all of the things that have changed in the past ten years. So many things have probably changed that you take a lot of them for granted.
Technology is constantly evolving and the way you go about operating your business isn’t the same as it used to be. But the problem with business plans is that they haven’t evolved with the business world. So why would you spend time on something that is old and out-dated?
Conclusion
If you think having a business plan is going to increase your odds of success, it won’t. There are no stats proving that writing a business plan is going to help you succeed… so do yourself a favor and save your time.
And on a closing note, I would like to leave you with a few words from Steve Rappaport.
Many successful businesses today would not withstand academic scrutiny. A perfect example is the company Red Bull. There are so many holes in the plan without the 20/20 hindsight. I can imagine what would have been the comments — didn’t we do this in the 80’s as “jolt cola” or “entrenched drink competitors will crush you if it ever becomes popular.” I think a plan is good, but serendipity and opening the business up for opportunities can be even better. In other words, diverting from the plan. Red Bull’s initial aim was a drink for long-haul truck drivers.
Do you think it’s worth creating a business plan?
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Trying To Understand: How Brain Works
I’m Tech Geek Blogger but I’m so much interested to understand how brain actually works in different situation. How brain stimulating messages and processing output in shortest time and how brain works when I’m in sleep. How brain also doing tons of things and extreme multi tasking capability and taking information from surrounding and organizing my body properly. Within this week, plan to read Brain Rules 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work Dr. John Medina. And I’m so much interested to write a list “how brain works” and there I’ll enlist the realtime, real-lifes example — not any technical language of doctors.
Andrew Warner 9:09 pm on March 24, 2010 Permalink
I forgot about that one. I did that back when Mixergy was mostly about events.
Thanks for reminding me!
sakib 7:36 pm on March 31, 2010 Permalink
@Andrew thanks for the comments man. I didn’t expect that from you.