I’ve been getting a lot of emails lately on creativity. I don’t have a class or anything to sell on this, but do I have an idea that I want to share with you.
It may just be the very thing that frees your mind to be more creative.
It’s not a matter of going out and becoming creative, it’s a matter of letting go of what you think you know or what you think is going on, and being open to something else.
Lets play a brief game:
Blink…
and when you open your eyes look around for everything that is Yellow.
Look around. Look at the things on the wall, clothes, flowers, pieces of yellow in paintings — look for anything yellow.
So, while you’re busy looking around for everything that’s yellow, I would bet that you didn’t see very many things that were blue.
Did you?
But notice how easy how quickly and easily it was for you to tune your mind to find everything Yellow.
It’s like tuning your radar, and you did it automatically.
Just by mere suggestion!
Can you imagine the effect of all your distractions during the day?
Each could carry a similar subliminal command for you to fixate on yellow…
Or any color…
Or any idea!
And it’s difficult to see anything else.
Now that you are aware and conscious of this, you must realize that you can tune your own radar.
You can tune your mind to look for what you want.
If you want to fixate on your problems, that’s almost all you’ll see.
Or you could focus on finding solutions.
It’s just as easy.
One of the keys to creativity is as easy as that.
Be aware and conscious of your present state and adjust your radar to align with your goal.
I hope you found this bit of Business Black Belt wisdom useful!
Burke Franklin is known as “the man who’s helped launch a million businesses” with his best-selling business plan software, BizPlanBuilder… and creator of Business Power Tools, the company that developed an original suite of software tools to help entrepreneurs and business owners start, finance, and scale their companies with real-world best-practices and minimal BS.
Burke graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a degree in business and a minor in electrical engineering.
He took his first corporate job as a field sales rep for Texas Instruments selling electronic components. Besides working in sales and management for other high-tech companies, Burke's career also includes a position with The Sharper Image Catalog as Electronics Buyer and catalog copywriter.
Overall, Burke's marketing & management experience spans 40+ years.
With an extensive background in sales, marketing, and management, Burke brings a very practical approach to everything he does.
Since 1988, when BizPlanBuilder took off, Business Power Tools has introduced a dozen business development apps and templates, and now they are available in cloud-based versions managed on the web with a unique dashboard concept.
Burke was elected to the White House Conference on Small Business and was also nominated for Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year.”
Several of his ground-breaking business concepts have even been documented as case-studies for MBA students.
Today, more than 153 schools worldwide teach business using BizPlanBuilder business plan software. And more than 2 million entrepreneurs have used it!
He regularly speaks and participates in seminars, conferences, and panels, and has been interviewed on radio and television shows for entrepreneurs.
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