6 Getting Unstuck
Dysfunctional Belief: I’m stuck.
Reframe: I’m never stuck, because I can always generate a lot of ideas.
Ideate
Ideate. Improve. Repeat. If you work through lots of ideas, you increase your chances of finding energizing and worthwhile ones.
It will be OK. We're fortunate enough to live in the modern world with access to some degree of choice, freedom, mobility, education, technology -- and free time. What we choose to do with that free time is key.
The solution is simple, but we make it difficult. You are going to have to generate a lot of ideas and possibilities. Accept the problems, take action, ideate, fail, improve, and then repeat.
There is no-one single idea for your life. There are many lives you could live happily with many different paths to each one.
Dysfunctional Belief: I have to find the one right idea.
Reframe: I need a lot of ideas so that I can explore any number of possibilities for my future.
Choice
Choose to move into a new creative space. The crazy ideas are the innovative ones. Our logical minds and illogical fears hinder free creativity. Our minds are lazy. They make us fall in love with the first idea.
You choose better when you have lots of good ideas to choose from
You never choose your first solution to any problem
Mind Map
Go through the wild ideas to get to the actionable good ideas. - David Kelly
Mind Mapping will be one technique to get unstuck. Keys to a good Mind Map
Think of "crazy ideas" for your life
Pick topics, ideas, goals, aspirations, etc. related to your "crazy ideas"
Make the mind map by noting things related to that idea
Create the connections and look for patterns or groupings
What emerges is the innovative ideas for your life
We are here to get you unstuck. We want you to have lots of ideas and lots of options. When you have lots of ideas, you can build prototypes of your life and test them out. That’s what life designers do.
DO
Create a Mind Map of crazy ideas for your life
Take a photo of it
Upload to Canvas
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