The Yellow Pad

Are you looking for a way to increase your productivity and creative thinking?

Most solutions to any problem can be found within one?s self, yet most people do not look inside themselves to create their opportunities and solve their problems.

There is a known and proven strategy, and you do this on a daily basis. The one way to do this is to start using your own brain!

Yes, you can find all the answers within yourself using the great talents within yourself. Let?s now discuss how we are going to do this.

It would be best to find one hour a day where you can be alone and uninterrupted. I do find morning best to do this, and usually with a couple coffee.

The tools you will need for this exercise is yellow legal pad and your favorite writing pen.

The first thing to do at the top of the page is to write down the situation you are trying to create, the problem you are trying to solve or the opportunity you want to grow.

Now begin to think about what you just wrote down. Now start using your mind and writing down your ideas. You will find that your mind will drift, however go back and read what you wrote down on the top of the page. This will help you stay focused.

You will find many times that after an hour you may not come away with anything useful. This is okay the goal here is to develop this into a daily habit.

You will eventually find over a period of time that you will eventually get some useful ideas out of this. This means you will have real solutions, real ideas, and most importantly reach your goals. The commitment from you is to do this everyday, and make it a habit. Remember, we are retraining ourselves to use our illustrious brains.

When you do strike upon an idea and it does flow into other ideas make sure you write those down. The most effective way to do this is try to never stop writing. If you start losing your train of thought and start daydreaming, you want to write that down.

Your goal is to keep your commitment here and relook what you wrote at the top of the page. Think about what you trying to accomplish and get your mind back in focus.

There will be many days that you will write things that will not work for you, but the thing you need to do is keep trying. The most important thing you need to understand here is most of the time, we are not using our own brains and talents to solve our problems yet the answers are within us.

Since most of us live our lives out of habit, and routines believe it or not thinking has become a lost art. Even at work most of the time you are following a routine or following a task. You are not looking at you work in new and unusual ways of thinking how make it better.

I know this may be very tough to hear, but it is most definitely true. The sooner you accept this fact in your life the easier this process will become for you. You will eventually really like reaching into your own gold mine!

So take the time now and get the tools, a yellow legal pad and your best writing pen. Then make sure you do this the very next day. Make sure that you make this a daily habit.

Every now and then throughout the week go back and read what you have written, because then you will be building your own encyclopedia of what you want to accomplish and achieve.