How do leaders and creative people effectively jump start their problem solving skills to deliver viable solutions for clients or companies? A favored method of choice is to approach the problem with a confident and cocky swagger and the absence of fear.
After years of exercising at extreme levels, my body has developed a highly efficient cooling system. When my heart rate goes above 120 beats per minute, I start to perspire and my body is cooled by the moisture on my skin. It requires no planning or thought on my part. It just works.
Confidently open a new blank document and start typing solutions to the problem that needs solving. An idea will magically appear on the word document. And then another. If you keep your mind and your fingers engaged and moving, the ideas will start to flow. One idea, even a bad idea, leads to more and often times better ideas. Before you know it, you are on page two and you've been throwing out solutions for 45 minutes.
An honored mentor once told me that total sales are directly proportional to the number of sales calls you make. Simple advice that works with ideas as well.
Now go back and start editing out the weaker ideas and developing the stronger ideas. Present your ideas to trusted friends and colleagues and incorporate their thinking and further refine and edit your ideas.
Go on the internet and research your ideas and attempt to bring a more global perspective to your solutions. Use your imagination to take ideas from related industries and apply them to the challenge at hand. It need not be a neat and orderly process. Chaos can be useful.
You will soon be presenting workable solutions to the world's problems. The key is to begin fearlessly. When roadblocks appear, go around, jump over, or take them out. Cocksureity goes a long way toward success. When the process becomes a reflex reaction, you can repeatedly achieve great things.
Note: Cocksureity is a made-up word. But appropriate.
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