Life Skill 101 advice for those of us who want to live a meaningful and profitable life is to “find a need and meet it.” The world is full of opportunities brilliantly disguised as needs.
Life is exciting when need meets creativity. The old adage is true: Necessity is the mother of invention.
One of my newly discovered fun websites is www.quirky.com where creative ideas are turned into useful products that help us in our daily life. (I “need” to win the lottery so I can buy all the stuff in the Electronics and Power section.) Admittedly, we could argue all day about the need for an egg tray that lights up, but for the most part there are smart, simple solutions to the challenges we face.
What needs are you facing this week that have to be met? You are already half way there, because you’ve identified the need. Once we figure that out, our creative juices start flowing to come up with a workable, practical solution.
I once heard leadership author and speaker Mark Miller (http://greatleadersserve.org/) say in a workshop I attended, that “not every creative idea is a good idea.” Once we have identified the need, the next step is coming up with an idea that actually works.
Most times, trial and error is the only way to find out what works and what doesn’t. It seems obvious but it’s human nature to try to find a shortcut. It strikes me as ironic that we try to find a shortcut on the way to designing a shortcut.
This week, get ready for some creative solutions to come your way. Test those ideas to find out if there is a good one that actually works.
Who knows, you could be on the verge of the next million dollar idea that changes the way we live.
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