How does such inspired thought find its way into the mind of one humble individual?
Is it something that is uncommon?
And most importantly, how can I be the vehicle or channel for that rare occurrence? How fine would it be to be recognized as such a genius?
The truth is, the mystery is not that mysterious at all. It has been proven by many different researches on the effectiveness of team-work that quite often, more the number of people better is the creativity.
Simply because renowned people like Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have been successful, it does not mean that brainy ideas come only from people like them. These people of repute have permitted their minds to think along with their intelligence and develop inspiration.
Management brilliance comes from the introspective assimilation and processing of information. A study a few years ago at the showed that individual thought and not brainstorming was responsible for most of the grandest innovations in business.
Through private reflection, mind-clearing, and listening carefully to those proverbial fleeting thoughts or seemingly insignificant inklings, anyone can be individually brilliant . Everyone can also become creative if they desire to become innovative.
You need to be open minded to accept anything of importance. To allow for more flow of creativity you must allow for more flow of seemingly insignificant thoughts to your conscious mind.
Everyone practices this more often even without being aware off. We come up with genius ideas all the time, but we never seem to have the resources, time or money to bring them to reality.
Three Important Steps to Brilliant Management
Be the next in your company to introduce an innovative new approach or idea. Here are three critical steps you can take now to become more individually brilliant in your day to day:
1. Make time for personal reflection: I thought I will have hectic time this week. On Sunday I flew to Montreal. I ate dinner, had an evening meeting, and was in 3 days worth of meetings surrounded by people who demanded my attention, almost non-stop. Thereafter I took my meals and met my colleagues informally. When I finally got back to my room I washed up, prepared for bed, and lay down to read my book.
Tonight when I get home I will greet my family, feed the pets, catch up on emails, and run some errands. The rest of this week will seem like much of the same.
Nowadays in North America almost everyone is negligent about the personal reflection. We don't teach it to our kids, and we don't practice it unless we are avid meditators or yoga enthusiasts.
Making time for personal reflection is critical to successfully tapping your genius because it is the only way you will be able to do the next step of the process.
2. Clear Your Mind: Performing cleanup operation of your mind is like meditation that will create enough place in your mind so that bright spots of your ingenuity will start sparkling. Literally, it means stopping your mind from thinking, for 3 minutes or more.
This is hard. Hardly, you can do it for just 5 seconds.
Our minds are wired to "think" involuntarily whether we like it or not . Instead, it can be made to prepare for staying with the current thoughts.
It really does the cleaning of the mind from any thoughts of the past or the future. It means becoming aware of what your breathing sounds like, here and now. You must close your eyes. Become aware of what you are sitting on, who is near you, and what sounds are occurring in your present moment. Become aware of the feel of your clothes, and the temperature in the room.
Your mind may be wary about any possible change in the temperature within short time, and so you may be inclined to adjust the temperature control thermostat but it is necessary to stay focussed without allowing the mind to drift.
By clearing your mind of past and future, and being present with your thoughts, you create space. This will require for just 3 to 5 minutes only.
3. Listen to your fleeting thoughts and inklings: When you free your mind, you will you will have traces of all the thoughts about the future and the past. These will give a pleasant feeling. You are now ready for creative thinking. Just remember to come back to present in those critical 3-5 minutes.
Your job is to more actively listen to those fleeting thoughts and inklings as a source of inspiration.
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Mary Legakis is The Management Coach - the only coach focused exclusively on helping ambitious managers and aspiring executives raise their game and get to the corner office faster. For more information, please visit her website- http://www.managementcoach.ca
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