Home Business: How to Turn Idea Squashers into Possibilities

How to Turn Idea Squashers into Possibilities

Written by Steve Brunkhorst

By Steve Brunkhorst http://www.AchieveEzine.com

Managing a small business continues to become more challenging. However, history has shown that resourceful business owners will succeed. They will prosper, turning disadvantages into advantages by thinking creatively.

While entrepreneurs focused on competition fade into repparttar past, those working from a creative standpoint will carry repparttar 117303 torch. The creative individual will force repparttar 117304 solution to a problem by looking closely at his or her vision, values, resources, and assumptions. He or she will find alternatives through creative problem solving.

I recently attended a business seminar where repparttar 117305 presenter talked about "idea squashers." Squashers are assumptions that form barriers to creative thought. You've probably known someone who was great at coming up with squashers when first hearing new ideas. It's repparttar 117306 familiar "Yeah but..." response. The trick is to turn repparttar 117307 squasher into a possibility by responding to it with a leading question, or "assumption buster."

Here are some examples of squashers that block creative thought:

We've always done it this way. I've already tried that. There's too much competition. It's irrelevant to our situation. You don't have enough experience. We don't have a big enough budget. An "average Joe" can't get ahead. We haven't got repparttar 117308 manpower. Someone might not like it. Let's stick with what works. It's too far ahead of repparttar 117309 times. That's not in my job description. I'll get back to you later. Stick with what you know. It will take too much time. Nobody asked you to do this.

The Devine Secrets Of The Ya Ya Lease Purchase Hood

Written by Sue and Chuck DeFiore

The biggest secret of conducting a successful lease purchase business is to have a plan. I know don’t grown. You need to know what you want to do however, before you can do it.

So secret number 1 is to have a plan of action. Set up daily goals for yourself. (For example, I want to make 50 calls today, or I want to spend 20 minutes on repparttar telephone, or I want to send out 75 emails, you get repparttar 117302 idea). Just be sure that your goals are realistic.

Secret number 2 is to Write down everything you want to accomplish on Monday, Tuesday, etc., repparttar 117303 time you want to do what (for example 8 a.m. to 9 a.m.- work on FSBO sites). Have a To do list, and update it every day.

Secret number 3 is to have a tickler file. A tickler file will help keep you organized, keep your desk clean, and be sure you don’t forget to do something. Remember a tickler file tickles your memory. It is a accordion file with 31 days, you make up repparttar 117304 manila folders with repparttar 117305 months (or you can buy them with repparttar 117306 months on repparttar 117307 files already), and put your to do list for repparttar 117308 next day in repparttar 117309 tickler file, meetings for a particular day of repparttar 117310 month in repparttar 117311 tickler file. It is especially great for things you do on a consistent basis. For more information on what a tickler file is and how to use it, check repparttar 117312 article on our website at http://www.homebusinesssolutions.com/articles

Secret number 4 is to have a chron file. A chron file will help you find information quickly. It contains all correspondence you have generated for a month by date. It is a great time saver. Keep it in your desk or in a stand up on your desk.

Secret number 5 is to set up a good filing system. I am not going to go into detail on how this is done in this article, as this was already done in a previous article and can be found on our website in our article archives.

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