1. Free Writing

Stream of consciousness writing is one of the most unpredictable forms of writing. You do not know where your brain will lead you, but you can be assured that it will be interesting. There is no special preparation for this method. Open a new Notepad window or pick up a sheet of paper and start writing.

2. Wordplay

Start writing poetry about your favorite topic. Use words that rhyme. Write the song that is going through your head. Pick your favorite prefix or suffix and start listing all of the words within which that fragment resides. Attempt to be as silly as possible.

3. What If?

Most novels are written on the premise of ‘what if?’ What if there were no water on our planet? What if there were too much water on the planet? What would happen if our feet were digitigrade instead of plantigrade? Ask some what if questions and see where the answers take you.

4. Mind Map

Mind mapping is an exciting method of generating ideas because you are building on the idea of ‘and then?’ You are mapping out those tangents that your mind takes. Take a concept or idea and write it in the center of your page. Write concepts and ideas around that idea until something interests you. When you exhaust the options for one of the topic, elaborate on one of the subtopics.

5. Analogy

Take two unrelated topics and attempt to connect them. Start with the question ‘How is _____ like a ______?’ and see what happens. Your brain is geared toward answering questions, so you will immediately start finding answers. Write down your list and see where it leads.

6. Role Playing

How would someone else handle the situation that you are in? What would someone else have for dinner? This exercise is all about looking at the alternative perspective to a problem. How would the person that you dislike the most care for their pets?

7. Escapism

Start with a common problem or situation that everybody has. Write a list of surreal solutions. There can be no reasonable or completely feasible answers on this list. Once you have your list, search for items which can be altered to become viable.

8. Outlining

This brainstorming technique is perfect for analytical people. This is like the mind map method. You are using writing instead of drawing to convey your ideas. Start with a broad subject and break it into subtopics. The outline method is very useful for writing non fiction.

9. 77 Storms

When you are brainstorming, aim for a specific number and do not stop until you have reached the number. Do not judge the ideas, merely fill the page. This will give you ideas and directions.

10. Questions

Look at the items which surround you and ask questions. What is the history of this object? Why is the mantlepiece made of faux wood? These questions are intended to be childlike because it will spur on your brain. Search for answers to your questions after ten minutes.

Using these creativity techniques will help you to get your ideas once again flowing like a river. Brainstorming will add that extra push to your writing and take you in exciting directions.

by James Adams

From The Secret Daily Teachings by Rhonda Byrne

You should be sincere in figuring out what drives you the most in your life. What is the reason of your dissatisfaction? Why you want to be above others?

1. Inferiority feeling
2. Delight in control
3. Ambitions and status/fame seeking
4. Retaliation to the people in power or society as a whole
5. Retaliation to  certain people
6. Compassion and sense of justice
7. Striving for a better life
8. Excessive libido
9. Creative drive

Be honest! You are not trying to cheat yourself, aren’t you?

1. I don’t know what I really want
2. Lack of planning
3. Bad priorities setting
4. Overreacting on external signals, getting distracted from your current task
5. Can’t see the results, that is why don’t believe in success

Those who REALLY want to succeed MUST constantly and diligently improve his/her skills.

Seminars, trainings, books, classes, podcasts, webinars, news – whatever it takes to advance your personality. Step by step, no fake excuses and procrastinations. Every day, hour, second and whatever the weather is outside.

Every time I awake at the mornings I feel some disappointment on what my life is. It seemed just yesterday like I had very positive mindset and where all that is now. Damn it.

How to be what some call “infatigable worker”?

Hope attempts to prove we’re powerless.

We say things like…

-I am not the one in charge here, so there is really nothing I can do.

-I believe my fate is in God’s hands.

-They won’t let me…(government, rich people, or anyone else who appears to have more power)

-What is the use of trying? The odds are clearly stacked against me.

These are nothing more than assumptions. Assumptions are characterized by the habit of taking for granted that something is true when it is not. Questions you must ask are, “Is my assumption true or false? What proof or evidence do I have about my assumption? “

What’s more stupid than a stupid question? The answer is an incorrect assumption.

Think of this in terms of your return on investment. In business we focus heavily on the ROI (return on investment), but we forget to use that same concept throughout the rest of our lives. When we fail to do what we want because of an assumption, we are forgetting about the concept of ROI. What would be the ROI for doing it anyway, even if someone somewhere holds the assumption that it is impossible? If all any of us ever did was follow our assumptions, we would still be afraid of falling off the edge of the earth.

Is it wrong to hope or have expectations? Absolutely not. However, the tipping point where hope turns into defeat is when hope keeps us from doing what we can do in the moment.

From Dr. Robert Anthony newsletter

Hope can be a form of scarcity. There are those who live in hope and those who produce hope. What does it mean to be a producer of hope? People who produce hope are creators. People who live in hope are those who just wish and wait for things to change.

Hope is essential because without it life would be a daunting task. However, there is a dark side to hope that very few people talk about. The difference is in what we do or don’t do with hope.

For most people, hope is characterized by waiting for other people or events to change so that we can be happy or get what we want. In this respect, hope is like the dark side of positive thinking.
Positive thinking rarely brings about change because it is a passive activity. Hope then becomes a waiting game.

What people fail to understand is that hope is only a small part of the equation for success. Without action, hope leaves you in a negative reinforcing cycle of expectations, disappointment and
stagnation.

Hope is the longing and wishing for things we think we don’t have. However, the energy we put into wishing and waiting actually prevents us from receiving what we want.

Hope can be a prison. It is a conditioned belief that there is nothing we can do but sit back and “hope for the best”. The dictionary defines hope as “the desire for something to happen while expecting or being confident that it will come true”. This is nothing more than a waiting game.

Many people create a dream and then wait for a sign from heaven that they are on the right track. When the sign fails to come, they give up and go off onto some new adventure, again waiting for a sign that this is finally “it”.

We are conditioned to wait. We wait for the bus, we wait in line at the grocery store and the bank. In school we raised our hands and waited to be called upon, etc. We wait until our parents, teachers or some other adult tells us that it’s okay to do what we want to do.

People that are into hope feel powerless. Powerlessness is a conditioned pattern. Why is it that we can read about people who overcame great odds to accomplish some fantastic feat, but we can’t manage to get to an appointment on time? We are powerless because of heavy traffic, kids won’t cooperate, or some other excuse. If we really faced the truth of the situation, we would see that this supposed powerlessness is a clever disguise to keep us resisting what we can do in the moment.

From Dr. Robert Anthony newsletter

As I realized they mostly come from the childhood. And I liked an idea of considering them as subpersonalities. In other words there are several (not to say hundreds) personalities in each of us coming up on the scene in different life situations. You might have noticed how ofently we repeat our parents behavioural patterns in our own life. They are being transduced from one person to another just like viruses are. And our childhood is the most susceptible time for that transduction. Most of them play a protective role for the individual but they can restrain your freedom either.This is what the book called Embrace Ourselves: The Voice Dialogue Manual written by a couple of Stones about. The worst part of that is you lose your identity because those subpersonalities permanently take control of you mind and body. This is just like “stimulus-response” attitude. No brain just reactions. Some examples are “Loser”, “Procrastinator”, “Lazy”, “Sceptic” and most of them we take from our parents. But wait where are youself than? That is the question I ask myself every single day and suggest you to do the same.

your eyes off your goal

For most people obstacles are just things they feel the lack of. This could me anything . Time, money, knowledge, experience, power, connections and you name it. Once come to your mind they make you stuck and frustrated.

You might be telling youself : Oh, my god, I can’t do that because I got nothing for that. Neither money (or whatever) nor skills (put your freaking version here). These kind of thoughts help you in no way but self-abasement. So why bother about them? Do you want to spend your entire life crying and complaining about how pathetic and useless you are? If you do just go ahead. Who cares?

One of the valuable features of powerful people is the ability to ask the right questions. Dealing with obstacles I used to queston myself with following:

• Who am I? (the host of my own life or what)
• What do I want? (win or lose)
• Why do I want that? (passion or just illusion)
  
• So what is my plan? (detailed one or just useless dream)
• Do I respect/love myself? (or just expecting someone to do that)

Recently I realized that the happiness is simply when you understand yourself.