HOW TO BE CRAZILY INNOVATIVE

To be crazily innovative is fundamental to successful living. You need to be original instead living your life as a copy. Be a pioneer, be inventive, and be modern and ground-breaking in everything you do. In order to do all these, you need to put up certain life style. Freeing your mind to think in an innovative way can be as easy as jumping in the shower and tuning out. You can come up with a great idea anytime you wanted. I will show you how to summon new and innovative concepts on command and also to teach your people the same skill. This may sound like an infomercial. In this article, I am going to highlight five points on how to free your brain to let your best ideas flow.

Every human being undoubtedly has too much on his mind. Their mind continues to wonder from one place to the other. Move from one idea to another. Some folks can be talking to you right now, but their mind will immediately drift to unpaid bills, failed business, and sometimes failed relationship. All they do is focus on the negative experience of life that they really have no time to see and enjoy the positive side of life. What kind of life is that? 

Some people, when they are driving during rush hour, they are too busy dealing with traffic to notice the scenery and enjoy the ride. If you fall into this category of folks, instead of concentrating on dealing with traffic problems, please take some time out to enjoy the ride. Take some time out to enjoy life. Take out some time to adore the good divine investment in your life. Take out some time to be grateful to God. When you do this, your life will receive new momentum for ultimate performance. 

The following practices will help you to eliminate mental traffic and help you liberate the great ideas inside:

1. Shower your way to creativity: There is a scientific theory that water hitting your head helps trigger the synapses and that is why people get great ideas in the shower. But I think it is simpler than that: The ideas occur because you are not making an effort to think. You are not worried about anything. You are not stressed. Hence some of your best thinking occurs. When the mind is in absolute serenity, it receives momentous power for the release of refined ideas. You are place in a position to listen and hear the voice of your spirit man. Every human being has an inner voice which speaks to him or her on a daily basis, but the truth is that we do not hear this counselor because our mind is too crowded with the burden of daily occurrences. Therefore, to be crazily innovative, you must allow your brain to dwell in a siren atmosphere.

2. Sleep on it: There are things you cannot immediately find answers to, though they are fundamental. Do you have a big problem to wrestle with? Just sleep on it and you will definitely find answers at the right time and in the right place. When it comes to big ideas and problem solving, the best thing to do is sleep on it. The next time you want to solve a major challenge or be unusually brilliant, think about it in bed. Do not push yourself to figure out the answer before you fall asleep. Instead, just go through the issues at hand and tell yourself that you will have the answer in the morning. In my experience, this technique amplifies the power of the shower, because there are even fewer distractions to occupy your mind when you are asleep.

You can employ an alternate version of this while awake. The next time you cannot think of an important fact, just tell yourself audibly, "I will not think about this for a while, and the answer will come to me." This technique clears the traffic in your mind and lets your subconscious go to work. Your answer will often pop into your head the moment you stop "thinking about it."

3. Engage in mind-mapping: Engaging yourself in a mind- purging exercise is fundamental to your craving for innovativeness. Purging is a great way to make new connections and create bigger ideas. Do you have a tough challenge to solve? Get a giant piece of paper (write small if you cannot find one). In each quarter of the paper, write a keyword related to the challenge. For example, if you want to plan a cool family vacation, you might write the words "destinations," "transportation," "memories," and "kids."

Then, in no particular order, begin to brainstorm any word that comes to mind when you think of each of the keywords. For example, for "Transportation": plane, train, automobile, John Candy, pillows, sleep, sleeping bag, tent, treehouse, memories, dreams, daydreams, smells, popcorn, movies, adventure, pirates, islands, e.tc. Eventually, you will begin to make connections, and ideas that unify the key aspects of your goal will pop off the page.

Strive for as many words as you can, and do not judge the words. Judging is looking at the traffic when you are driving—it keeps you from coming up with ideas. Eliminate the traffic. That is what purging is all about. It is the process of eliminating mental cobwebs from your mind.

You can employ this simple technique yourself or do it in groups to loosen up your team. Imagine how much fun you will have explaining to your family how you came up with the idea of renting a tree house for your vacation in Abuja.

4. Schedule Your Daydreaming: Do everything within your power to avoid mental distraction and mind wondering. We all have a time of day when our brains work the best. For many, it is first thing in the morning, before rush hour. Unfortunately, the CrackBerry addiction has many of us checking our e-mail just when our brains are the most capable of creating.

The moment you check your e-mail, voice mail, or to-do list, you have hijacked your imagination. You have created a mental traffic jam. Do yourself a favor and schedule daydreaming. Unplug during the time that you know you do your best thinking and find a place that makes you feel energized. A lot of people love the local coffee shop. The buzz of conversation, the smells, colors, and energy create a safe haven for the mind to wander. Some prefer the library or the park. Whichever it is that you fancy, go there. Let your mind wonder!

5. Laugh it out: Laughing is another great way to liberate your brain. Often consciously doing silly-seeming things will get the creative juices flowing. Spin a top. Get an ice cream cone. Get together with friends in a blissful way. Attend a comedy party and laugh it out. A good comedy show like a night of a thousand laughs can do wonders in bringing out your creativity and innovativeness.

Yes my friend, I believe you enjoyed everything you have read so far. Get up and practicalize them now! Do not procrastinate! As you test these five techniques, you will find some work better than others. If it turns out you really do get your best ideas in the shower, be conscious of the circumstances under which they occurred. What was the water temperature like? How long had you been in there? What time was it? Replicate the experience.

It sounds crazy, you might say. You will find the effort worthwhile. "The bottom line is that gifted performers are almost always made, not born. The journey to superior performance is for neither the faint of heart nor the impatient," says Rand Stagen, senior partner of Stagen, a management consulting firm that specializes in helping mid-market companies scale. "Just as in sports, becoming an elite performer in business requires struggle, sacrifice, and honest (often painful) self-assessment. Depending on the scope and difficulty of the skill to be learned, it will take months and probably years to achieve a high level of proficiency or mastery." This is a task that requires creativity and innovation.

Learning how to implement these approaches is often what separates a brilliant thinker from a creative want-to-be. At first, you may feel silly, but we promise they will work.

How to be crazily innovative is a fundamental way to brilliant thinking. You need to be a creative thinker to be unique and outstanding.

See you at the top!