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Idea Discovery: Quirky

Make your IMPACT(c) … one idea at a time! Here’s my Idea Discovery for today to help you do just that Saw a great story over the weekend on CBS Sunday Morning and knew it would be this week’s Idea Discovery. Quirky is a website that caters to new inventions. You submit your idea and online community members help the Quirky staff decide by voting and once a week (Thursday) an invention is decided upon. Quirky then designs, markets, patents AND manufactures the invention. All with input from their online community. The inventor and online influencers gets 10%…

Idea Discover: Article – ‘Idea Guy’ Builds Dot-com Success

Make your IMPACT(c) … one idea at a time! Here’s my Idea Discovery for today to help you do just that. Read this story of a business that began just on the purchase of a domain name. Sean Coffman purchased hundreds of domain names back in the ’90’s and today one of those domain names has paid off big for him. He considers himself an “idea guy”; just a guy who likes to come up with ideas. His website CarsForSale.com has grown by leaps and bounds over the years and now Sean has a staff of people that work for…

Idea Discovery: This is Your Brain. This is Your Brain on Innovation

Make your IMPACT(c) … one idea at a time! Here’s my Idea Discovery for today to help you do just that. I attended the Creative Problem-Solving Institute’s conference in 2013 and learned the Springboard problem-solving model for getting ideas out of heads and into action. One of my facilitators was Susan Robertson, Facilitator and VP of Business Development for IdeasToGo. I sometimes wonder why my facilitation works when I work with clients. Turns out, so did Susan. And she wrote THIS ARTICLE after attending a workshop by neuroscientist Marc Hurwitz who studies the brain. He presented some basic neuroscience principles and asked…

When Can I Be Most Productive?

One of the top three reasons my clients and students note for the challenge of working on their ideas is “I don’t have / can’t find the time to work on my idea”. I did some poking around on the topic of productivity and found several resources noting optimal times of the day when we’re most productive at specific tasks. As with all studies, we as individuals probably disagree with one or more findings based on our own habits, health, and life situations. Yet consider these findings for how you might schedule the tasks you need to accomplish to make…

March – International Ideas Month: 30 Day Challenge

It’s your dream you want to make reality. It’s your idea you want to implement. It’s your project you want to complete. And you will when you break it down to manageable chunks of action, time, and milestones so you can see and celebrate your progress along the way. That’s the point of International Ideas Month! It’s a finite period of time early in the year when you can pick one thing you want and need to accomplish that contributes to and moves you forward towards your year’s goals. You laser-focus on that one thing to get it done in 30 days with support from me along the way every day in…