“Slow Motion Planning” – You’re Secret Weapon for Getting Started

I know the feeling and it sounds something like this…

  • Oh, I’ve got just one more phone call to make, then I can…
  • I first need to organize XYZ…
  • I need to first think about it more and have a better plan…
  • I need to find my notes and rewrite them so…
  • Next week I’m sure it’ll be clearer so…

What’s the problem? You’re talking yourself out of starting something really important. It’s not that you doubt you should do it. You just can’t get going…right? Am I alone? No, I don’t think so.

Starting line

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What is Innovation?

“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship… the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.”          Peter Drucker

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Self Induce Creativity

Have you felt dull, bored or uncreative lately? Do you feel trapped in a mental cage? While this happens to all of us, it’s a phenomenon frequently observed among the elderly who, as they become older, become less mobile, reduce their exposure to new things, and increasingly narrow their horizons.
Stuck lorry

So what is the problem? Is it just age? – certainly not. How is it possible to continue to keep an open mind and be creative? Is it by replacing a slow pace with extra busyness? No. Believe it or not, busyness can actually lead to the same outcome just mentioned for the elderly. Why? Busyness is just another kind of “fixed horizon” – think of a hamster running in a wheel. (more…)