CHAPTER SIX
INSPIRED IDEAS LEAD TO SUCCESS
So long as new ideas are created,sales will continue to reach new highs.
—Dorothea Brande
 
Surveys of successful business people asking, “When do you get your best business ideas?” keep repeating the same answers: Number one: in the shower. Number two: on vacation. Which helps prove the point that the best ideas come when you stop forcing your thinking. The straining involved with forced thinking is actually pushing away ideas. You are repelling that great idea wanting to just float up and announce itself.
The solution is to gets your hands off your thinking process and let inspiration flow to you.
Once you learn to do this with yourself you can do it with your people. You can plant seeds and ask questions ...

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