ThinkerToysGet Ready to Have Your Beauitful Minds Blown

into Tiny Beautiful Creative Bits

We are all creatives.

FUDS

• Fear

• Uncertainty

• Doubt

• S

Beat Your FUDs Exercise

• Tick Tok Exercise

• Write down your fear

• Examine the negatives

• Rearrange the negative for a positive

Creative Affirmation

Mind Pumping

• Idea Quota

• Feeding Your Head

• Idea Bank

Stretching the Challenges• Thinking about different questions pertaining to your idea. Think about

the classic who, what, where, why, and how.

• Who will this idea benefit

• What will this idea help

• Where will this idea take shape

• Why are we pursuing this idea

• How will be we pursue this idea

Ideas - Optimal Content

• Write down 5 ideas

• Reminders:

• Optimal - Analytics, CRO, Inbound Marketing

Random StrategyDraw a Card

Da Vinci’s Technique• Technique: Drawing

• Profile: How to use freehand scribbling, doodling and drawing to inspire ideas.

• Process: Review a challenge you are working on; allow your intuition to offer images, scenes and symbols that represent your situation; draw as your mind wants to draw (as many drawings as you need); examine your drawing and write words, then a paragraph).

• The Book of the Dead

• Technique: Hieroglyphics

• Profile: How to find ideas in the hieroglyphics from the Egyptian Book of the

• Process: Write out the challenge you want to solve; choose one of the three sets of hieroglyphics; scan the illustration and write out the challenge again; empty your mind of distractions and concentrate on the challenge; open your eyes and 'translate' each line of the hieroglyphics, imagining that the Book was written to help you with your specific challenge; free-associate from each hieroglyphic; write interpretations.