Welcome to Tuesday!
Calling all Creative Men and Imagination Women!
This week is all about making you and your business stand out from the Noise Makers. (See yesterday’s Grease for the Gears if you are wondering what we are talking about!) We are going to coach you on ways to use your creativity to find your unique offer and voice that will attract your customer and clients to you.
Cool, huh?
Now, before we get down to tools and techniques that will help you to stand out and be heard, we are going to spend a moment with you! That’s right, you! Today is all about YOU!
Why?
Because you and your innate, unique creativity are your greatest resources for building a successful business and a satisfying life. And, in order to be able to listen to yourself and to be aware of your creative thoughts and insights, you have to be able to hear them when they pop into your head!
So, today, we are going to show you a very easy technique to clear some room in your head to make way for creativity!
Here’s a little review of some concepts from yesterday plus a little more information to ponder before we give you a great exercise!
You are inundated all day, every day, with millions of messages and communications and external stimuli. You filter out most of these messages at an unconscious level.
Yet there are many messages that get caught in your conscious mind. They swirl around as a constant inner dialog that is talking at you from inside your head. To be able to get in touch with your creative thoughts and ideas, we need to make some room in that wonderful brain of yours and get it to stop talking for a few minutes.
The best way we know to do this is the Mind Dump (fondly and creatively named because it is a way to dump all those things out of your mind that are swirling around and talking at you!)
The easiest way to understand the Mind Dump is to just do it (all due respect to Nike)! So, grab some paper and something to write with and let’s give it a whirl.
When I say, “GO,” start to write whatever is in your head on the piece of paper in front of you. Write as quickly as you can. Write for a minimum of 10 minutes. Don’t edit. Don’t worry about making sense. No one will ever read this. This is just for you and you can do whatever you want with what you write when you are done. (Shredding is a great idea!)
Keep writing until you feel ready to stop. Then write for one more minute. Then stop.
Are you ready? Set…GO!
Don’t read this now – go ahead – write!
OK !!! Well done!
You have just experienced your first Mind Dump!
Now, is your internal noise a little bit quieter? Do you feel like you have some extra room in your grey matter? Do you think you will hear a creative thought when it pops up?
Good, then the Mind Dump has served its purpose.
One thing we have discovered…creative thoughts love it when you clear a path for them. They have just been waiting for the right moment when they knew they could get your attention.
Just Imagine That!
