Good Leaders Exercise Creativity

Creativity is often defined as the ability to bring something new or different into existence. The more you put effort of what you’re doing the more you can get after you’ve done it. Creative thinking needs you to constantly dig deep into yourself and generate more, newer, better, faster, inexpensive, different ideas that you can use to develop the important parts of your life.

The question is, how to be creative? Here are some ways of Brian Tracy said in his blog:

Ask questions, by asking a lot of questions because of your curiosity will find you a way to think deeper. Once you create your questions, like “what is the purpose of this project?” or “what can we add more to pursue our goal?” Simple questions lead to creative ideas that you never thought it would be.

Change your mind, the words of the truly flexible person, the person who is willing to change are simply saying, “I changed my mind.” According to researchers, fully 70% of the decisions we make turn out to be wrong in the long run. This means that we must be willing to change our mind and try something new. Mental flexibility is the most important quality that you will need for success nowadays.

Creative thinkers are goal oriented, they know exactly what they want. They have it written down clearly what’s in their mind. Visualizing on a regular basis that they think it’s a good idea. Imagining what their goal would look like if it were a reality today. The more individual visualizing and imagining their goal as a reality, the more creative they become and the closer reaching it.

Generates new ideas, the greater the quantity of ideas that you generate, the greater the quality your ideas will be. Quality is better than quantity. The more ideas you have, the more you able to create ways to reach your goal. Your ability to come up with an idea, to test it and validate it, and then to use it from creative thinking and perform it in your life to achieve results.

Every single time you think of a new idea, write it down, make a plan for it through creative thinking and then take action. The more you manage your creativity in this way, the smarter you will become.

References 

Tracy, B. (2014). Brain Tracy. Retrieved from 7 Qualities of Creative Thinkers: http://www.briantracy.com/blog/personal-success/7-qualities-of-creative-thinkers-change-your-mind-creative-thinking/