Toying with an idea
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 8:28AM The news was all so serious today - it usually is. And I don't find that to be an inspiring way to 'get creative' and 'be innovative' when I'm working on the thinking in my business.
So I change the way I'm thinking and I "toy with an idea".
Toying means to be casual and less serious about something. You see kids doing it so much more often than adults do.
To get casual and less serious, I have a look around my desk and office and I go from there...
Looking around, close at hand I can see:
- a china cow money box with a Happy New Year headband on;
- a stuffed toy goat hand-puppet that sings tunes from The Sound of Music;
- a small bongo drum I picked up at a conference event;
- a pair of my dad's thick rimmed 1950's glasses with the lenses pushed out;
- a pen with a helicopter on top of it;
- a furry pencil case;
- three juggling bean bags;
... and on and on. This is not a tidy, neat, everything in it's particular place office.
I have props and cues and creative things that help me toy with ideas. I might take my hands off the keyboard and pick up something, wander around, talk out loud, see something outside, get an idea, write it down, or put two or more of the toys together - kaboom!
Your best creative thinking isn't likely to come staring at this screen. Touch something else and have play, a walk, a think, a talk, and be less casual, less serious. All work with no toy makes the sandpit a big yawn!
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