How to Open Your Mind and Discover New Perspectives and New Action Paths

10 tips to open your mind and discover new perspectives.

Your worst enemy to self improve is a close mind unable to find new perspectives and new action paths. Your goals and the way you try to reach them are determined by your believes and values, models and bias (ways of thinking).

Are you stagnant? You want to improve, but you are not able to see a way out. All the options you find are cul-de-sac. Doesn’t matter how much you turn your problem over and over in your mind. You always get the same results.

There is a way to open your mind.

You carry a mindset, which is limiting you. Using an analogy is like a pair of glasses. The kind of lent you are using will determinate how you perceive whatever happens around you.

You learn from childhood the meaning of good and bad. And you learn what you can or you cannot do. You learn what you can expect from life.

Let me help you to challenge the status quo. Using these simple tips you will be able to find new points of view, new option, new plans and new action paths. It will be easy, simple, fun and effective. You will enjoy the process. You will discover new skills in yourself. And you will love it.

1. Challenge your assumptions

What is conditioning you? Believes, values, rules, norms, etc

Use the maxim “every assumption is false” or at least “every assumption is questionable”.

2. Make better questions

To get better answers you need better questions.

The quality of your question will give you the quality of the answers you get.

You are not getting right answers. Try to change the question.

3. Make a Clear and deep description of your issue.

How deeply are you describing your issue? Be honest with yourself. Self help you.

Most of the time this superficial description could be ok. But it is not this time.

If you star to rearch your issue with a poor problem description you are taking all the tickets to get a poor solution.

4. Intensity

Intensity is a must.

You won’t believe how much people leave their dreams when they are just one step behind the success because they don’t put a little more intensity on their actions.

Keep trying. Keep working. Keep thinking. Keep moving.

5. Involving.

Who is involved in your issue?

Once you identify and accept others who are involve on the issue you are trying to resolve is simpler to approach the solution.

6. Perspective.

Where are you thinking from? The same figure looks very different from different points of view.

Are you aware of the roll you are taking to look at your issue?

Could you understand others' perspectives?

Do others perspectives give you different information?

7. Options generation

If you are smart person you probably search for at least three options before to buy or take a decision. Doing this you are among the top best decision makers. Most of the people don’t do it. If you only take two options before to buy or take a decision you are average.

Get the whole spectrum of future scenarios and be ready to almost everything.

This is funny, simpler than you think and very very effective.

8. Intuition

Get in touch with your deepest feelings.

Intuition is the flash out from your automatic processing.

Do you have the experience of try to work out a solution for something with none or poor success and leave it for a while and get the solution by itself?

Intuition comes as a flash. Once you get it take it and write it down. Don’t try to elaborate it. If you elaborate an intuition you are allowing to all your conditionings to create a conscious interpretation with will have a tendency.

9. Take the risk. Move your ass.

The famous SAS army corp. has a motto; WHO DARES, WIN. If you try you can success. If you never move, never try, the only thing you get is frustration and fear.

The secret is practice. Practice the habit of taking risk. First, get confident taking small risk. You will see that you are able to do a lot more than you thought.

10. Make a habit of use a method.

On taking decisions and solving issues take the habit of use a method.

Managers, CEOs, leaders, all use a method. None of them just wait for a light over his/ her head.

Make a habit mean repetition; repetition means practice; practice means don’t wait until the moment you need to use it. When you act under pressure because you have a need you will pass details that could give you the best options to your issue.

Thank you for you attention. If you got this point you are on your way to open your mind and improve your performance.

To your Grow and Win success