First installment of Surviving in the New Economy

One of the first thing I like to talk about is being creative in the New Economy. When we were kids we used our imagination and creativity all the time. When we went out to play we invented new games, created forts to play Cowboy and Indians. Pirates sailing on the high seas. Astronaut flying to the moon. We had imaginary friends to keep us company. And of course Halloween the great creative holiday of the year.
Somehow as the years went on we lost our ability or forgot how to be creative, at least it wasn't something we practice. One of the most interested fact about recession is that many small business are created during these financial conditions. What all of us need to do is get in touch with our creative mind and think about new way to view and think about old ideas. There are books on the subject and I suggest you purchase one and read about how to rethinking everything in your life. New ideas come from old ideals, take one of your passions and reinvent that passion. How will this help you, just maybe you'll find a way of creating a business you can be passionate about.
Write that paradigm down, kick it around, look at it from all different angles, backwards, sideway, take it apart and put back together again, make it different from the first time you thought about it. I know many small business owners who started business full of fire, excitement and creativity, looking to revolutionize there industry. Full of ingenious ideals and how to put them into practice. Somehow they lost their creativity gene, in become dormant, it went into hibernation, the forget about their passion and fall into the same traps that some business owners do, the worry about the economy, labor problems, taxes, competition and now they go from fire,excitement and creativity to surviving one more year. The pressure of business will take away you creative thought.
If you study the great mind of business you'll find that creativity and imagination fueled there passion. We can do the same, visualization is one of the most important aspect of creative thought. Dream are visualization, day dreaming are visualization. Using visualization with creative through and you'll view the world in a different light.
Now here the important part, think of what you are passionate about, then create and visualize your new business or maybe just putting new creativity into the business you have. Write a book, start a
non-profit organization. It doesn't matter as long as you have passion about what you are doing. It not going to coming to you the first time you try. It may take weeks or month, or it may only take a few day. The important thing is to keep trying until you get that flash of lighting , a thunderbolt of inspiration, that brainchild that make you jump for joy and suddenly you just want to do is sit down and write that dream down . Look online to see what materials is available to give you creative inspiration. There a great book that I use when I feel stymie it called” Thinker Toys”. Don't get discourage or think that you can't do it, practice make perfect.