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    Top Secrets for Getting That Innovative Edge
    Top Secrets for Getting That Innovative Edge
    Top Secrets for Getting That Innovative Edge
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    Top Secrets for Getting That Innovative Edge

    By Gini Graham Scott

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    New and better ideas often make the difference between failure, success, and spectacular success in business or daily living. This book shows you how to become more creative and innovative through mental imaging exercises and step-by-step examples. You’ll learn how turn difficulties into opportunities, think and act more effectively, come up with new ideas, improve yourself, and more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGini Graham Scott
    Release dateDec 10, 2009
    ISBN9781452362595
    Top Secrets for Getting That Innovative Edge
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    Gini Graham Scott

    Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D., CEO of Changemakers Publishing and Writing, is an internationally known writer, speaker, and workshop leader. She has published over 50 books with major publishers on various topics and has written over 3 dozen children's books. Her published children's books include Katy's Bow, Scratches, The Crazy Critters First Visit, and Where's the Avocado? published by Black Rose Writing. She has published 8 children's books through her company Changemakers Kids and is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She does workshops on self-publishing and creativity. She also helps clients write books as a ghostwriter and self-publish or find publishers and agents. Her websites are www.changemakerspublishgandwriting.com and www.ginigrahamscott.com.

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      Top Secrets for Getting That Innovative Edge - Gini Graham Scott

      Top Secrets for Getting

      That Innovative Edge

      How to Use Your Inner Creativity

      to Create More Success in Your Life

      by Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D.

      Author of a Dozen Books on Work and Professional Development, including Want It, See It, Get It! and Enjoy! 101 Little Ways to Add Fun to Your Work Everyday

      www.ginigrahamscott.com

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2009 Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION: GAINING THAT INNOVATIVE EDGE

      CHAPTER 1: NEW IDEA POWER

      Applying Your Creativity and Ability for Innovation

      Making the Innovative Approach Part of Your Life

      The Three Keys to Being Innovative Everyday

      Using Your Creativity and Innovation to Come Up with New Ideas

      New Ways to Use What You Have

      For Practice

      Applying the Process to a Real Life Situation

      Finding New Paths to Your Goal

      Thinking About New Paths to Your Goal

      For Practice

      Applying the Process to a Real Life Situation.

      CHAPTER 2: MAKING CHANGES

      Adjusting to Change

      Recognizing Change In Your Own Life

      Repackaging Yourself to Adjust to Change

      A Personal Transformation

      Identifying What Needs Changing

      New Ways to Make Changes

      Changing and Improving Yourself

      Changing Yourself and Your World Like DNA

      Making Changes

      Changing Objects

      Changing Places

      Changing People

      Changing Groups

      CHAPTER 3: NO MORE FEAR OF NEW IDEAS

      Overcoming Reasons for Resistance

      Getting Bypassed for Not Letting Go

      Saying Yes to New Ideas and No to Fear

      Examples of Being Left Behind

      Overcoming Your Resistance and Fears

      Overcoming a Negative Attitude

      Overcoming a Specific Fear

      CHAPTER 4: ACCESSING YOUR CREATIVE POWERS

      Tap Your Inner Ability

      How to Access Your Inner Powers

      Knowing What to Pay Attention To

      With a Visual Orientation

      With an Auditory Orientation

      With a Feeling Orientation

      A Knowing Orientation

      Recognizing Your Form of Receiving Information

      Recognizing and Getting In Touch with the Four Modes of Getting Information

      Discovering Your Primary Source of Information

      Determining the Strength of Your Perception

      Determining the Accuracy of Your Perceptions

      Developing Your Other Modes of Perception

      Improving Another Perceptual Skill

      Your Perceptual Repertoire

      CHAPTER 5: THE POWER OF PERSONAL BRAINSTORMING

      Letting Go of Your Critical Judge and Old Habits

      Brainstorming Your Way to Success

      When to Use Brainstorming

      Using Brainstorming to Make Life Choices

      Consider How You Might Use Brainstorming

      How to Brainstorm for Maximum Results

      Putting Your Logic Aside

      The Two Stage Process

      CHAPTER 6: PUTTING BRAINSTORMING TO WORK FOR YOU

      Brainstorming Effectively

      Getting Clear

      Generating Ideas Effectively

      Keeping the Process Going

      Reviewing and Selecting Ideas

      How to Handle Conflicting Needs

      CHAPTER 7: PUTTING YOUR IDEAS INTO ACTION

      Brainstorming to Implement Ideas

      The Continual Brainstorming Process

      The Four-Step Review Process

      Putting Your Ideas Into Action

      Telling Others About Your Plans

      Developing Your Action Plan

      Using Brainstorming in Your Business and Personal Life

      What Do You Want to Brainstorm?

      When Not to Brainstorm

      CHAPTER 8: SOLVING PROBLEMS AND MAKING DECISIONS

      When to Turn to Others

      Make Your Emotions Work for You

      Make Yourself More Exciting

      A Personal Transformation

      More Creative, Confident Presentations

      CHAPTER 9: IMPROVING YOUR SKILLS

      Using Creative Visualizing to Choose and Land a Job

      Overcoming Performance Fears and Realizing Career Goals

      Improving Performance and Income

      Using Visualization to Achieve Mastery

      Calling on a Team of Supporters to Help You Do It

      CHAPTER 10: USING MENTAL REHEARSAL TO IMPROVE

      The Power of Imagining to Plan and Rehearse

      How Mental Rehearsing Increases Your Skills

      Practice Makes Perfect

      Correct Any Mistakes Quickly and Surely

      Find a Good Role Model

      Begin with a Real Experience

      Make It Vivid

      Combine Perfection and Confidence

      Avoid Second-Guessing

      Apply the Visualization Process

      Getting Help from a Peak Performer

      Further Developing A Skill or Talent

      Creating Your Own Skills Visualization

      CHAPTER 11: EXPANDING YOUR CREATIVE POWERS

      Use Mental Imagery Techniques to Increase Creativity

      Three Ways to Up Your Creativity Quotient

      See New Uses for Things

      Think about What’s New

      Find New Methods or Materials

      Have a Can-Do Attitude

      Get an Advance Edge on Future Needs or Wants

      Finding and Filling Needs

      Make New Combinations

      INTRODUCTION: GAINING THAT INNOVATIVE EDGE

      Gaining that innovative edge enables you to come up with more and better ideas. It lets you to make those creative, intuitive leaps. It helps you think of a range of alternatives, so you can make the best, most profitable and productive solutions.

      With that innovative edge you can do the following:

      Look at information in new ways;

      Easily combine information from different fields;

      Comfortably challenge assumptions and premises;

      Hear new valuable information you initially disagree with, since you know how to put your initial opinions on a shelf;

      Come up with effective alternatives and new possibilities quickly;

      Adopt new ways of thinking and doing;

      See challenges, difficulties, and problems as opportunities to explore new paths to action.

      GAIN THAT INNOVATIVE EDGE is dedicated to helping you achieve this way of being, thinking and acting in your business, work, or life. The exercises will help you better visualize possibilities, limber up your brain to think more fluidly, and get in touch with your inner creative force to make those innovative intuitive leaps.

      CHAPTER 1: NEW IDEA POWER

      The essence of human nature is creativity and change – the evolutionary key that has led to today’s revolutionary change. We see human ability evolve faster and faster as our technology leaps ahead, changing our human brainpower as it does. Researchers are even finding transformations in the human brain, since using our creativity and innovation to create new technology devices, increase our mental capacities, too.

      In other words, as our ever-changing environment undergoes more rapid changes, our creativity not only helps us respond to and influence that change, but it prepares us to better adapt to future changes with even more bursts of creativity. Thus, the creative force becomes an engine of exponential change – creating even more possibilities for creativity as it zooms ahead. Creative potentials create even more expanding creative possibilities, like an ever-expanding origami. Each series of folds doubles and doubles again, and the speed of doubling doubles as well. Think of the process like an expanding sun that picks up even more intense power as it expands.

      This process not only lets us remake the world around us but ourselves – again and again, so we best fit the new conditions or shape those conditions to fit ourselves. By upping your awareness, you can better perceive these current conditions and shifts. Then, decide whether it’s best to change the conditions you can alter – or change yourself.

      Applying Your Creativity and Ability for Innovation

      You can apply your inner creativity and ability for innovation in a myriad of ways. Plus use your creativity to think of even more possibilities.

      One way to apply your creative ability is to think of more efficient and productive ways of doing things. At work this will help you get the job done faster and better. For example, if you design new and better policies and procedures for your office or work group, everyone will better understand what to do and how to do it. There will be fewer disruptive conflicts, because people don’t know what to do or disagree about how to do something and who should do it.

      Or say you are at home. Coming up with these more efficient and productive approaches will help you get everyday chores done faster, leaving you more time to kick back and enjoy.

      Another application is to create new useful and profitable products and businesses. Just think. You could have the next Whoosh Ball; the next Napster; the next big doll craze. These and many products and businesses that made millions were initiated by people who started in their homes with a good idea. Shawn Fanning, for instance, was only 19 when he started Napster with the help of his uncle. The designer of the popular Soul Dolls began making them in her kitchen.

      Having better ideas can also help you provide better leadership and direction. For instance, at the office, use your creativity to come up with new strategies for the months ahead, whether you are running a company, leading a department, or just reorganizing a file cabinet. In your personal life, suggest ways to plan a family gathering or where to go for a fun time.

      Being more creative and innovative can additionally help you reshape yourself and what you do. Then, use this persona to open doors to new opportunities. That’s what Margie, an assistant office manager, did. She felt stepped on in the office and not taken seriously, because she had a bland colorless personality, and she looked and dressed the part, in the plain, cool colored suits she usually wore. She didn’t speak up at meetings and was

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