Working with a client from unfamiliar industry? Take the time to read up on widget-making or mortgage insurance. You might stumble on some context or history that illuminates the problem at hand.
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Check in with each other once a week about your creative aspirations and how you’re going to achieve them. It adds accountability when those personal goals start slipping to the bottom of your to-do list.
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How would a carpenter handle a difficult client?
What would a lawyer do if he or she were snowed under with deadlines?
Look for approaches and best practices to adopt from other business arenas.
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Buy a small notebook and tuck it in your bag. Then use life’s spare moments – standing in line or sitting in gridlock traffic – to write or draw.
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When you feel stuck, pack up your laptop and head to the park or the corner coffee shop.
An environmental shift might be enough to shake things loose.
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Look for someone whose work you admire or who simply excels in a single area where you’d like to expand your skills.
Mentors are a great asset! I would never have reached the levels I am at without a number of mentors. Mentors have made such an impact in my life that I decided to offer mentoring services to companies and people together with one of my mentors, Thor Erik Gulliksen . We do this in Trainifique , as you may already know.
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Some of my readers have asked me where I find my inspiration to blog.
Well, some of it comes from reading book, other blogs.
Some come from traveling, sometimes from my trainings.
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Inspiration tip: You are my inspiration! Read More »
Sign up for a fencing class or master the art of baking puff pastries.
It is amazing how our brain reacts to new impulses.
No matter what you are doing to make a living, chances are you have other interests too.
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Filmmaker David Lynch swears his daily practice is crucial to all his creative work.
I am not particularly good at this one myself.
But I do what I perceive as similar, and to the same effect.
For example, I run. When running, I am letting my mind flow, and I get the most fantastic of ideas.
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