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Stimulate Your Creativity with These 10 Brainstorming Techniques

2010-11-22T17:23:00.001Z

(Here are some excellent techniques to stimulate your creatvity - this is a guest post by James Adams who has excellent ideas on building a better brain!)

Brainstorming is a valuable method for rediscovering your creativity. Some days, you are drowning in an ocean of ideas. Others, you are looking at the desert and hoping for an oasis. You are creative, your brain just needs a bit of priming. Here are ten methods for brainstorming to get the idea river gushing.

1. Free Writing

Stream of consciousness writing is one of the most unpredictable forms of writing. You do not know where your brain will lead you, but you can be assured that it will be interesting. There is no special preparation for this method. Open a new Notepad window or pick up a sheet of paper and start writing.

2. Wordplay

Start writing poetry about your favorite topic. Use words that rhyme. Write the song that is going through your head. Pick your favorite prefix or suffix and start listing all of the words within which that fragment resides. Attempt to be as silly as possible.

3. What If?

Most novels are written on the premise of ‘what if?’ What if there were no water on our planet? What if there were too much water on the planet? What would happen if our feet were digitigrade instead of plantigrade? Ask some what if questions and see where the answers take you.

4. Mind Map

Mind mapping is an exciting method of generating ideas because you are building on the idea of ‘and then?’ You are mapping out those tangents that your mind takes. Take a concept or idea and write it in the center of your page. Write concepts and ideas around that idea until something interests you. When you exhaust the options for one of the topic, elaborate on one of the subtopics.

5. Analogy

Take two unrelated topics and attempt to connect them. Start with the question ‘How is _____ like a ______?’ and see what happens. Your brain is geared toward answering questions, so you will immediately start finding answers. Write down your list and see where it leads.

6. Role Playing

How would someone else handle the situation that you are in? What would someone else have for dinner? This exercise is all about looking at the alternative perspective to a problem. How would the person that you dislike the most care for their pets?

7. Escapism

Start with a common problem or situation that everybody has. Write a list of surreal solutions. There can be no reasonable or completely feasible answers on this list. Once you have your list, search for items which can be altered to become viable.

8. Outlining

This brainstorming technique is perfect for analytical people. This is like the mind map method. You are using writing instead of drawing to convey your ideas. Start with a broad subject and break it into subtopics. The outline method is very useful for writing non fiction.

9. 77 Storms

When you are brainstorming, aim for a specific number and do not stop until you have reached the number. Do not judge the ideas, merely fill the page. This will give you ideas and directions.

10. Questions

Look at the items which surround you and ask questions. What is the history of this object? Why is the mantlepiece made of faux wood? These questions are intended to be childlike because it will spur on your brain. Search for answers to your questions after ten minutes.

Using these creativity techniques will help you to get your ideas once again flowing like a river. Brainstorming will add that extra push to your writing and take you in exciting directions.

By day James writes reviews of products such as the HP 300XL ink cartridge for an online print cartridge supplier based in the UK. By night he indulges himself posting about design and media on their blog.

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Great Goal Setting - Goal Setting Techniques

2006-11-25T22:19:00.000Z

Great Goal Setting - Goal Setting Techniques: Sound Goal Setting Techniques

Author: Patricia Johnson

Have you set goals for yourself only to fail to achieve them?

You need to follow sound goal setting techniques if you want to achieve your dreams. These techniques may be based on your own understanding of various issues, or on advice given by your parents, professional counselors, and seniors. But, no matter
where they come from, they can make a big difference between success and failure.

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Great Goal Setting - Achieve Anything

2006-11-09T20:13:00.000Z

Great Goal Setting - Achieve Anything: "How to Achieve Anything You Want

Author: Adam Khoo
Why is it that so few people are willing to keep changing and taking action until they get what they want? Why do so many people quit along the way? Worse still, why do some people even procrastinate in initiating action? The reason is that while everybody desires to succeed, only a few are truly COMMITTED to their goals.

For most people, having more money, more freedom, more security and more success is a desire. They think it would really be great to have it. But they can live without it, if they had to. As a result, they never take action as something more important always comes up to fill up their time.

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How to Be A Success

2006-10-28T13:09:00.000+01:00

Author: Saleem Rana

Learn how to master your area of endeavor the right way. Start out by finding the people and books that will make you exceptional. Seek out the best sources of information that you can afford.

Analyze each part of the skill you wish to master, then put it all together to create a fluid form. Develop first a theoretical understanding, then a practical one. When you practice your knowledge, your work will flow and appear effortless.

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Great Goal Setting - Goals 1

2006-10-14T12:49:00.000+01:00

Great Goal Setting - Goals 1: "Goals Are Damaging : Part 1
Author: John Di Lemme
Can you relate to setting goals and not achieving them? Have you ever been frustrated by trying to set goals when you know in your heart that you will never reach them? You even say to yourself, Who am I kidding? I will never accomplish this goal. "

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Great Goal Setting - Achieve Mindset

2006-10-14T12:47:00.000+01:00

Great Goal Setting - Achieve Mindset: "The Simple Steps To Creating The Mindset To Achieve ANYTHING, Part 1

Author: Karen Oates
There may be many personal growth changes that you want to make and that you are finding these changes are proving elusive. Perhaps it is losing weight, maybe learning a new language, achieving financial independence or finding that elusive intangible, Happiness.

Even when you know you need to make changes and you want to change, it can often be very hard to do. You can start off with the best of intentions and then lose momentum easily. You can recognize that change is clearly important to you, but you put so little time and effort into finding the right approach. "

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Positive or negative - which one attracts?

2006-08-21T19:08:00.000+01:00

Another great goal setting tip:

Always write your goal in the positive instead of the negative!

Aim to focus on what you want, not what you dont want, or what you want to leave behind. You see, you need to place a set of instructions in your mind, that it will carry out - give it positive instructions to carry out instead of negative ones...

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Goal Setting Tip - Be Consistent!

2006-08-19T15:51:00.000+01:00

Whenever you set a goal or multiple goals - make sure that that you are consistent, i.e. make sure that your goals:

(a) fit in with your current or planned way of life,

(b) fit in with each other!

If your goals contradict each other or contradict how you live your life, this is called "non-integrated" thinking and will only lead to frustration and failure.

Get intergrated, get consistent and you will be successful in achieving your goals!

To find out how to achieve successful goals, check out some more tips and advice and also download our goal setting program by clicking the link below.

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Dos and Donts of Personal Goal Setting

2006-08-19T15:39:00.000+01:00

For the purposes of getting your personal goal setting on track, a good do's and don'ts guide to personal goal setting will help you get to the nitty-gritty in a nice and quick manner.

Think about it; if you are reading this, you want to start setting goals and achieving them now not later. The following can be a quick guide to personal goal setting for re-reading later...

Find out the dos and donts here

Don't make this goal setting mistake

2006-08-17T20:14:00.000+01:00

One major mistake that people make when goal setting can be solved with a simple piece of advice - always make sure the goals you set are realistic ones that you really want, not just ones that sound good.

Sounds simple and straightforward, but it's so easy for us to get hypnotised by "nice" sounding goals that really don't mean anything - and what's worse - will never get you anywhere. Don't make this mistake! Set realistic goals.

To find out how to set realistc goals that you REALLY want to achieve, click the link below:

Realistc Goal Setting

Don't Die...Just Get Stronger!

2006-08-13T11:10:00.000+01:00

One of my favourite sayings in life - and one that is perfect for goal setting and pushing yourself out of your comfort zone - is:

"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Not being a student of philosophy, I didn't find out until recently that it was the noted German philospher, Friedrich Nietzsche, who said it.

Isn't great to learn a little more about the world? That's what goal setting is all about - its about creating that hunger to learn more and grow and develop in many many ways...I'm off to find out more about Nietzche; in the meantme, go and download our goal setting guidelines and start turbo-charge your life today by clicking the link below:

Goal setting guidelines

Goal Setting Theory

2006-08-10T15:44:00.000+01:00

Want to know the real secrets to setting and achieveing realistic goals? You just need to be aware of the theory...

Goal setting theory is quite specific and actually quite straightforward, but it’s easy to get the theory wrong – and getting goal setting theory wrong can make a big difference between achieving your goals and failing miserably!

Here are some of the key points of goal setting theory: CLICK HERE

Looking to Set Career Goals? Here's How

2006-08-10T15:40:00.000+01:00

Planning a career move and engaging in successful career goal setting is much like mapping your route for a road trip.

If you don't know where you are going, you can't decide how to get there, but if you do know where you are going, you'll get there faster.

Goals like "Go back to school" are too general and not specific enough. In order to achieve successful career goal setting, you have to translate these goals into specific statements such as "Enter a college accounting program by next fall" or "For the next two months, search for work in the computer securities field." You have to know exactly what you want to do and when to go about it.

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Goal Setting - Here's How to Do It

2006-08-10T14:59:00.000+01:00

Do you have problems setting goals?

Sometimes the goal set activity alone is not the only problem that you must face. Sometimes, actually choosing the right goals to begin with is harder.

Basically, you can choose to work on any goal that you feel is necessary for your health, wealth, stability and happiness.

The goal set process is nothing more than a formal process for personal planning. By following goal set techniques on a routine basis you will be able to decide what you want to achieve, and then move in a step-by-step manner towards the achievement of these goals.

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Great Goal Setting blog is born!

2006-07-22T15:38:00.000+01:00

Welcome to my new blog, entitled Great Goal Setting. This is linked to my website Great-goal-setting.com. This blog and the website will both bring you lots of tips tricks and advice for setting and achieving great goals in life, including lots of self-help, self-development and motivational advice.

And if you've got any advice or experience of your own on these topics, don't foregt to leave a comment. I'd love to hear from you.

Talk to ya soon and here's to success!

Mikey