Do you ever encounter problems, challenges or obstacles in your business? If you answered 'no,' then you can stop reading and continue to rake in
fortune you must be making. For rest of us, answer of course is 'yes.'
For most troubling problems, biggest challenge is in your inability to come up with new and innovative solutions. This is because when you try to solve a problem, you probably use same approach every time ('let me sit here and think about it until I come up with something…'). The next time you try to solve a problem, try applying any (or all) of these approaches:
1) Be Obvious - Cances are, whatever your problem is, there is some conventional wisdom about how to solve it. Ask yourself why you are not following it, and evaluate for yourself whether your reasons are valid. Sometimes easiest solution is one right in front of us.
2) Be Contrarian - The opposite of being obvious, being contrarian means to consider doing opposite of what conventional wisdom says. If standard advice is to buy, think about selling. Instead of working more, work less. Note: This does not mean you should automatically DO what opposite is; it just means to let your mind wander over opposite to get it working in another direction.
3) Start Where you are - Sometimes we get so caught up in long term goal that we lose sight of where we are. Think about your problem and what you might do right now to solve it. Usually this results in frustration because we don't have a fully formed solution. But just because an idea is not fully formed does not mean that it does not have some validity. Start with your current idea and watch as new ideas present themselves.
