It’s spring… grow time. The birds are returning to Madison, Wisconsin. The snow is melting, and I have added about 5 new hobbies this past week. They include: Using eBay to identify the best value in Greek coins. Bidding, winning, and collecting dug up ancient Greek coins. Researching how to clean ancient Greek coins. Cleaning …
Innovation inspires motivation! Innovation is a motivator to take action. �We love to come up with that new idea. We love to figure out how to do something better, or solve a problem. We love to take these opportunities and make something positive happen. So, what is your reason to innovate? What kind of future …
Responding to Change In many cases, we need to innovate because we must respond to some kind of change. This change could be something we perceive as bad and we want to fix. It could be something we don’t know whether it is bad or good. It could be something we know is good, so …
To successfully innovate and develop our ideas to high-impact levels, we need to approach it with systems thinking and go through stages. After working on innovation projects with a lot of organizations and institutions; reading many books, articles, and blogs; and launching my own innovations on a frequent basis, I’ve synthesized an innovation system that …
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When we want to innovate our own lives, trying something new can help. We should do more than just TRY something new, we should stick with it and integrate this something new into our lives on a consistent basis. This new thing has to matter in a positive way that will help us get better, …
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This video really struck a chord with me! New York City band Atomic Tom is trying to make it big. They are trying to get their music out to the people. Problem is…their instruments were stolen! Did that stop them? No. Great stories have great responses to adversity and challenge embedded in them. They decided …
Ever get motivated by a fictional movie to do something for real? There are some great movie moments out there. Movies have motivated us to all sorts of different things. We live vicariously through the characters. The best speeches come during the part of the film when the odds are against the lead character and …
We have a page with a number of motivating quotes at InnovateYourself.com/quotes. Here is a selection of 10 inspiring quotes for creativity, courage to act & personal development: “You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.” -Ken Kersey “The tragedy of life is not …
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Are you hiding and hoping somebody will discover you and your great talent or innovation? Or, are you getting out into the world in a major way and making it easy for people to find you and see you doing what you do best. The world is changing by making success MORE accessible to you! …
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How many times have you asked someone about a new idea they were motivated to do and it never happened and they said they “talked themselves out of it.” We need to talk ourselves into it. We need to launch a new big idea for our life out of nowhere and when people ask us …
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