How to get good ideas?

In fact everything you are dealing with in your everyday life existed first just as an idea. The world runs on ideas. Most things before they came to exist were only a thought in someone’s mind. Can you think of good ideas? The answer is yes! You might not think of ideas that’ll change the world, but you can get good ideas to improve your financial situation and ideas that’ll change your life for the better. Consider the following:

The safety razor was invented by a salesman, Kodak chrome film by a musician, the automatic-dial telephone by an under-taker, parking meter by a journalist, the pneumatic tyre by a veterinarian doctor, the ballpoint pen by a sculptor.

As I mention in the previous article, the average person is using only 10% of his total brainpower, 90% is left unused and wasted. Let me share with you some few steps to obtain effective results and solutions:

1. Find a problem

If you do not have any worries of your own, here is a list of things other people are concerned about:

Careers, Starting a small business, Health, Welfare, Crime problems, Education, Finance, Taxes, Drugs, Narcotics and related problems, Memory improvement, Buying a house, Furniture and home appliances repair, Pollution, Cooking, Preparing your last will, How to quit smoking. That’s only an appetizer! Some people make millions of dollars by providing solutions in some of these areas. But I am sure that they haven’t even scratched the surface. So go for it, pick a worry you really like, solve it and get rich!

2. Defer Judgment

Don’t jump to conclusions. Getting ideas and judging their worth are two entirely different thinking process and they should never be mixed. Many creative ideas have been put in the grave by somebody saying, “it’ll never work”. You probably heard of Rank Xerox: When Chester Carlson, inventor of the photocopying machine tried to sell his idea first, he met a lack of interest. People judged his idea as unnecessary. Give your Ideas a chance to grow, mature and blossom. Postpone your judgment for the time being.

3. Gather Information

Collect all the relevant information you can about your problem. Go to the public library, talk to friends and experts. Look at solutions to similar problems. Just as you cannot drink from an empty cup, you can’t think with an empty head. Make use of all the available information by writing it down on paper and thus feeling your subconscious mind with more data.

4. Try to solve the problem by yourself

Consider the following possibilities:
What could I re-arrange?
What ingredient could be substituted?
What could be modified?
How could I combine, magnify, reverse, adapt or subtract?
Could it be made smaller? Lower? Lighter? Shorter? Longer? Stronger?
What if it were inside out? Or upside down?

Consider all the possibilities without judging them. Let your imagination take off. Put everything in writing and don’t dismiss anything. Give the green light to your fantasy. Remember what Albert Einstein said: “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Ask yourself “What would happen if?….” and stretch your mind beyond reality.

5. Ask your subconscious mind to solve the problem

It is hard for many people to accept this procedure. They cannot believe the fact that solutions to problems can be found by simply asking part of your mind to take care of it. But you must accept this! Think of your subconscious mind as another person, your employee or genius assistant. Just give the order to your mind: “I want the answer to such and such a problem before the end of this week or by tomorrow morning!” Then, forget it! Once you’ve asked your subconscious mind to solve it for you, forget the problem completely, Go on with your other activities but have a note book and a pen always ready beside you! Also when you go to sleep at night, have a pen and paper ready next to your bed.

Suddenly, when you expect it the least, the answer will strike you like lightning! Unless you write it down your ideas, if not it will fly a away and disappear just as a little precious bird from an open cage. I am often faced this kind of problem. So, I always keep typing down all those ideas to my handphone. If not, they’ll probably keep flowing like a river. Don’t leave anything out, don’t question them, just write them down! Empty all that’s on your mind. Be alert and responsive to your subconscious mind!

6. Analyze the fact and take appropriate action!

Commit yourself to the ideas you have collected and develop the courage and strength to follow them through. Evaluate and consider. The solutions that were offered to you by your subconscious mind can be trusted. You’ll have to make only a few minor adjustments. And you can’t go wrong, provided you’ve gathered most if the relevant information relating to your problem. The better and more complete your information, the better your decision.

At this point you will have to be the judge and decide whether to continue in this direction and if yes, what modifications might be required. If you feel that your experience and knowledge is somehow limited, you’ll have to ask for some more expert opinions. Don’t give up easily.

Follow up your decisions with actions and persist until you succeed.

Warmly,
Antien