Try This Tool to Boost Creative Problem Solving as an Entrepreneur
You’re about to have a huge breakthrough in your business or in your life, and as entrepreneurs, we know how this goes, these moments of inspiration sort of come to us from time to time and they’re really hard to predict and they’re really hard to create. We just hope that they come along from time to time.
Maybe we’re in the shower first thing in the morning, or maybe we’re out for a run, or just spending time with friends, and this idea pops into our head and solves a problem that we’ve been dealing with for a long period of time, or maybe even not dealing with - it’s sort of been nagging at us for a long period of time. It’s something that’s really critical or really important that we need to solve to create a breakthrough in our lives or in our business.
This week, we challenge you to figure out what that problem is. There’s probably several of them, we always have several big challenges going on in our lives at any one time as entrepreneurs. But pick maybe the big, scariest one that’s been bothering you for a long time. Maybe it’s something that’s an industry-wide issue that no one has solved yet, and maybe you can be the person in the business to bring forward the solution that solves it and really moves your business ahead.
The type of solution we’re talking about here is one that’s so elegant and simple that it makes everything that you’re already doing start working so much better. Maybe it’s as simple as just kind of re-stacking the blocks in a different order or your products or the way you deliver them, and it’s going to create a massive change.
The first step is to figure out what that challenge is that you want to work on this week. Then the second step is to use the Conscious Breathwork tool in the Founders First app to unlock our universal mind and our universal intelligence. What that really means is that we’re going to use this breath and a small amount of movement practice that comes with it to unlock our creativity. We do that by turning off our judgmental mind and our fear-response mind by getting the mind and the body really calm, so they can start to produce ideas.
So, Step 1 is to identify what that big problem is that you want to have a breakthrough for right now, and you want to do this intentionally instead of waiting 4 months for that moment of inspiration that might come to you in a time that you can’t predict. Then spend 5 minutes using the Conscious Breathwork tool, and use this practice to get ourselves in a state to solve the problem.
Immediately afterwards, brainstorm 20 potential solutions. Just do it quickly, write down anything that’s coming out of your mind, sort of stream of consciousness. Write them down on your laptop or on a piece of paper. The trick here is to make sure that we’ve turned off with the practice that filter that says this idea isn’t good or it’s too hard or it’s not going to work, that judgmental part of our mind, and instead allow these ideas to flow out.
We challenge you to use this Conscious Breathwork tool this week to be creative, to be an incredible problem solver in the moment when we need it. So, find your big problem, use the Conscious Breathwork tool to unlock your creativity and your deepest level of intelligence, and then brainstorm those 20 potential solutions. In that list, we bet you’ll find an incredible breakthrough that’s going to make a huge difference for you.
The Conscious Breathwork tool is one of many tools available in the Founders First mindstate tracking app for entrepreneurs. See all the tools and get personalized recommendations on how to best invest your time each day based on your current mindstate by trying the app free for 7 days.
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