You hear that to be more creative you need to think outside the box, but what is the box? It is your normal ways of thinking, and all the hidden assumptions you make. Imagine actually living in a box, and knowing the outside world only through the pictures and descriptions written on those four walls. Even the best pictures and most accurate descriptions couldn’t encompass the totality of the world outside, so you would have all sorts of assumptions about the world that might not be too useful or true.
This metaphor is great one for understanding how limited our thinking can be, and it suggests an obvious solution as well. Your thinking and assumptions are like those pictures and descriptions, and they form the “walls” of your box, limiting what you can see or know about the world. The solution? Stop looking at them and get outside the box! Here is one of the best ways to do that.
The Best Way To Get Outside The Box
Perhaps the best way to get get out of your habitual thought patterns and have some new and creative ideas is to identify the assumptions you are making and challenge them. This is a powerful way to deal with everything from personal to business to artistic problems and issues. Let’s look at some simple examples.
If you’ve always had a confidence issue, then this is the article for you. This is condensed advice from personal coaches and psychologists who specialise in goal getting and target realisation in individuals. This is a veritable gold mine of advice in attaining great self confidence, and hopefully by the end of this article you would have been able to use the advice listed to become a more confident individual, and change your life for the better.
Change everything about you that you deem necessary. Make that decision that you always wanted. If you’ve always avoided making these changes, it’s time you stop making excuses and stop procrastinating. The excuses you use are only as good as the person making them – this means the buck stops with you. Once you have achieved the mental focus you need and start to put in the effort to make a change, then you will see the pieces fall together.
Determine your priorities in life and the steps that need to be taken in order to meet them. Don’t be foolish and think you can wing it. Write down your goals or priorities, and work out a proper schedule or time line with which you can track your progress. Set dates so you know how far or how slowly you are coming along. Set small goals that lead up to your big goal so that you won’t be disappointed easily, and you’ll find that it will do wonders for your motivation towards success.
This is a guest article by Dan Bainbridge, of Real Subliminal
We get 100s of questions about subliminal messaging all the time, and we jsut can’t answer them all, but the other week we received something which resonated with a lot of the queries we get so decided to write a more detailed response. This question came from someone reading our Subliminal Messaging Course, I will print it in full:
If I already set goals and have a lot of drive for success then what good will subliminal messaging for motivation do me?
The part of the free course she quoted was this part:
Subliminal messaging won’t work if you are lazy or want instant fixes to your problems in life without having to do any of the work yourself. Subliminal messaging will work for you if you already have drive, it will, as suggested above help you to improve, keep you focused on improvement and help you to reach those tough goals without failure, or setbacks!
This was a question I could relate to – once upon a time ago, but since I got into personal development this now seemed so foriegn, and the answer so natural:
There is always room for improvement; if you always seek improvement and personal development then you never need to worry about slipping into old habits, ormaintaning your current level of success.
Are you a ‘rising star’ or a ‘snoozer’? Because there are two basic personality types where motivation works in two different directions and have far reaching implications for your mental health. At the biological or physical level, everyone has developed both ‘away from’ and ‘toward’ motivation. Away from pain, discomfort and stress and toward pleasure comfort and relaxation. These 2 methods are opposite ways of getting motivated, but both can be beneficial to use, depending up the situation.
But one or other style tends to dominate and make for a personality type. Well, which one are you?
The person who struggles to get up in the morning until they see a mental image of the boss yelling at them and threatening to fire them has an away from motivation style called the ‘snoozer’ for short. This personality type takes a break is when uncomfortable. When choosing their friends they will pick people who don’t upset or bother them, and they will not make any career move until they are totally frustrated with their current situation. They keep away from that which they don’t want!
