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Your ability to be an incredible leader depends on your ability to be inspiring. This is also the biggest skill leaders say they lack and want to build. So how do you do that? The biggest mistake leaders make is thinking being inspiring is about telling an inspiring story. Yes and no. Let's dig int 
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Eureka moments are rare. The backstory behind great ideas is often more complex and winding than having an apple fall on your head. But the best part is that creative ideas aren’t reserved for a special group of people; they can come to anyone if you change your mind-set. "The fact is, almost all of the research in this field shows that anyone with normal intelligence is capable of doing some degree of creative work," Teresa Amabile, professor of business administration at Harvard Business School and author of The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work, told Fast Company in 2004. "Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells." Whether they’re coming up with an innovative new product to launch, finding a solution to a universal problem, or picking a cool new place to grab lunch, people who consistently have great ideas have formed habits that help them think. Here are eight simple things those "creative geniuses" do that you can do, too: Via The Learning Factor
Adele Taylor's curator insight,
October 6, 2015 5:46 PM
I think the trick with getting creative is having a good group of people around you. So one person can start with an idea and it then gets fleshed out by the group to become an action. 
Bettina Thompson's curator insight,
October 14, 2015 12:18 PM
Love NEW idea makers!! 'Ping', 'ping', 'ping'!! Let' do Creative!
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Forming a personal mission statement means identifying your purpose. While this may sound like too profound a question on par with the meaning of life Rimm says asking “what am I here to do?” isn’t as challenging as it seems. Here, she walks us through what it takes to make a personal mission statement
Fantasize about your perfect day or week
What do you need to have in a day to make it joyful? For Rimm, a joyful life meant connecting with people on a daily basis and doing something that made a valuable contribution to someone else’s life. Make a list of all the things you need in your day to make it joyful. Perhaps it’s as simple as spending time outdoors every day or seeing your kids off to school. “It’s not picturing yourself on a beach with a pina colada, but what you need to make your life meaningful to you,” says Rimm. Via The Learning Factor
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May 6, 2014 7:37 PM
We’d all love to say we wake up in the morning feeling exhilarated joyful even and move through the day with purpose and intention, but the reality is most of us spend the larger part of our day going through the motions, feeling exhausted and wondering what the point of it all is.
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"Why FIRST: Communication and the Golden Circle: Why, How, What? Inspire where others do not. Profit is JUST a result NOT a reason for existing."
Simon's examples include Apple (why so innovative?), Martin Luther King (lead major change, Civil Rights movement), and the Wright brothers (controlled powered manned flight that others did not achieve, tho' were working on.)
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"The goal is to do business with people who believe what YOU believe." ~ Simon Sinek _________________________
Apple: NOT, What we do, great computers. Want to buy one? RATHER: Everything we do, we believe in challenging the status quo, we believe thinking differently. The way we challenge the status quo is making products that are beautifully designed, simple to use & user friendly. We happen to make computers. Want to buy one?
Counterpoint Tivo, which (until a recent court victory that tripled its stock price) appeared to be struggling.
http://www.ted.com Simon Sinek presents a simple but powerful model for how leaders inspire action, starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?"
Source here. Via Deb Nystrom, REVELN, janlgordon
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Doctors use the “universal pain assessment tool” to measure how uncomfortable their patients are. It’s a simple mechanism made up of smiley (and sad) faces. At one end of the spectrum is “pain free,” and on the other is “unimaginable, unspeakable pain,” with “tolerable” and “utterly horrible” falling in between. It’s not terribly scientific, but the tool helps medical professionals download your pain data from a little chip in your brain, so to speak, making it one of the best and fastest assessments at doctors’ disposal. It’s not just pain that’s difficult to quantify–so is the human experience generally. But researchers have devised tools to study other mushy concepts, too, including creativity. And in the process we’ve learned there’s at least one thing that tends to nudge people into measurably more creative thinking: boredom.
Via The Learning Factor
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November 5, 2017 5:17 PM
Cutting out distractions doesn’t just clear space to focus. As author and podcaster Manoush Zomorodi explains, it can also lead to boredom-induced creativity. 
CCM Consultancy's curator insight,
November 6, 2017 12:56 AM
Participants were asked to leave their phones out of sight while in transit, including ignoring any impulse to walk and text, etc... This helped clear their minds for creative ideas. So the next time you’re getting coffee, as you slowly make your way to the front of the queue, just let your mind wander instead of scrolling Instagram or checking email.
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Behind the inspirational speeches and best-selling books, Sinek is a self-proclaimed Star Wars geek. Via Marc Wachtfogel, Ph.D.
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Have you ever wanted to manipulate your mind for success? Well, Mo Seetubtim from BrandMentalist.com breaks down a tried and true way of manipulating your mind Via Barb Jemmott
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July 21, 2014 2:15 AM
Have you ever wanted to manipulate your #mind for #success?... Follow me!
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Negative thinking can be a habit of mind. Thoughts sink in and linger there until you take action to get rid of them. Via Barb Jemmott, José Gil de Sagredo, MyKLogica
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