Ever notice that when you really need them, ideas never come. When you are on the spot, under deadline or otherwise pressed for time it’s impossible to shake that perfect idea out of your brain.

One thing you can do to help yourself out when you feel like you’re hitting a creative wall is to step out of your comfort zone.

Ideas

If you ask someone to come up with five ideas, they’ll start struggling around 4. If you ask that same person to come up with 10 ideas, it won’t be until 6-7 before you see the sweat start to pour.

Everyone wants to be perfect. Everyone thinks that they need to come up with the perfect idea the first time, every time. If you find yourself falling into this trap, give yourself a few freebies. Force yourself to write 4 or 5 ideas instead of one. You will find that it’s a lot easier to come up with solutions if you remove the stress of having only one chance to be right.

Even if a few of the ideas you come up with aren’t worth the paper they are written on, by giving yourself more chances you dramatically increase your opportunity of finding gold.

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