“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.” Hermann Hesse Your seventh form of intelligence is intrapersonal. This is the ability to be aware of yourself, who you are and who you are …
“Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.” Robert Delaunay Your fifth area of mental potential is visual-spatial intelligence. This is the ability to see and create shapes, forms, and patterns. An architect, an engineer, a painter, or a person who has developed the capacity to visualize …
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.” Winston Churchill One good way for you to determine whether the constraint is internal or external is to look around you and see if anyone else is accomplishing the same goals that you want to accomplish. Is anyone else already earning …
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” Rumi When you pull these triggers regularly, you will be stimulating your creative ability and switching on your mental lights, like turning up the lights in a dark room with a dimmer switch. When you …
“Self-evaluation directs us to prepare our next performance from the past and today’s experiences.” Auliq Ice A good way to trigger creative solutions to your problems is to apply the “theory of constraints.” This theory says that, in every process or series of activities, there is a limiting factor. There are constraints or bottlenecks that …
“Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities Roy T. Bennett If I asked you what you did for a living, you would tell me the name of your current position or job description. But whatever your title, your real job is “problem solver.” This is what you do all day long. It …
“I have six honest serving men, they taught me all I knew: Their names are Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.” Rudyard Kipling The third way to activate your creativity is by asking focused questions. Well-worded, focused, provocative, challenging questions activate your mind and stimulate your thinking. The very best consultants often describe themselves …
“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.” Norman Vincent Peal A goal that you have not yet achieved is merely a problem that you have not yet solved. This is why success has been defined as the ability to solve …
“When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.” Alice Coltrane There are additional questions that you can ask to trigger your creativity for example, “What am I trying to do?” Be absolutely clear about your answer to this question. Whenever you experience any frustration or resistance in achieving …
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” Mark Twain One way to improve your ability to solve problems, and to trigger your creativity, is for you to think on paper. Take a …