Time for some new perspective
Lacking inspiration and motivation
How much time do you spend on actively choosing new perspectives to get new ideas and delivering new innovative solutions?
We are, of course, all creatures of habit, but we can also challenge ourselves to break those habits by doing something different, by seeing something different – to trigger new thoughts and ideas and force us to be more innovative and seek inspiration.
While reflecting on our 12+ years of writing recently, we recognised the number of locations we have been in while writing our four books.
Rather than just writing from our offices and homes, we have now and then needed to see and experience something different in order to ensure we can regularly get a new perspective and new ideas for our writing (and our work in general).
One such example was deciding to go to Oxford while writing our first book, The Team Formula. In the book, the team was having a team offsite in Oxford, and to do the location justice, we decided we needed to write some of the story in situ. And it really worked. So we have continued to actively look for inspiration wherever we are.
Here are some examples
Inspiration hit while…
Researching garden mazes (as you do:-)) at Hampton Court Palace outside London
Being interviewed on Share Radio in London
Punting on the river Thames in Oxford
Observing the sea lions from San Francisco’s Pier 39
Consuming HUGE coffees at Starbucks in Charlotte, North Carolina
Working on a keynote talk in the bar onboard a plane to Singapore
Taking a boat trip in Stockholm
Being on stage in La Vegas
What all these examples remind us of is that when we stimulate our senses with new scenery, new sounds and even new scents, we feel differently; we get new perspectives. And inspiration hits.
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