I met up with Katrina from ID Pet (www.idpet.com.au) yesterday to have a brainstorm and out some parameters around the many ideas she has on a daily basis. Usually we meet at her office but today we went out so we could leave behind the reminders of an endless to-do list!
A new sight, smell or sound can take us out of the day-to-day and transform our thoughts. The great food and coffee and new environment was just what we needed to come up with some wild, some hilarious and some very interesting ideas to explore before going back to the mundane of the doing.
Sometimes we need a different place, other times its people who you know have different ideas that can put a fire in our belly to be brave with something new. It can be very easy to hide behind our keyboards in our cosy space pretending the rest of the world is doing what they did yesterday. Things are moving so fast if you spend too much time with your head in your own little world, you may just get left behind.
Think about the ways you can incorporate new stimulus in your life and that will translate to business ideas. Challenge your routine by taking a different road or path on the way to somewhere you go regularly; say hello to that person you usually nod at and make an excuse for a conversation; take a walk in the rain. You never know what you might come up with!