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Still Stuck? Not fashioning any progress on that To Do haunting you from the top of your list?

Our minds are tremendously ingenious at running done the aforesaid accepted wisdom complete and over, suchlike a plunger wedged in a imprint on a radical story moving over and over, about and in circles.

That's terrible for ramp new reports into culture or skills. Our psyche will save busy, moving descriptions and thinking in the background spell our witting awareness is on other than matters. It's beneficially construction our expertise. But it firm gets in the way of forthcoming up beside new approaches to situations that are stalled. In fact, the end issue of that 'helpful' emotional distraction is that...

We ofttimes pass the accessible options no curiosity at all. And we don't return authority of the High Payoff gossip visible in the minds of another grouping around us.

And next no translation in construal is ready-made. No new decision is ready-made. No targeted conspire of human action is planned or implemented.

But alleviation is at hand! I often say "God call down the guy who unreal the Post-It Note!" Those spectacular pocketable glutinous pieces of serious newspaper have open our overbusy minds. Whether you use runny newspaper or scraps you scratch up for yourself, you'll impoverishment them on paw for the side by side publication of our technique to

REFRAME - Change Your Frame of Reference

There are various versions of this method. Two that I've common include

Version 1 - Add a new soul beside a incompatible situation to the chat.

Version 2 - Add a new 'setting' to the discussion.

Remember as you use those versions of Reframing - The smaller amount corresponding the circumstances, the less analogous the feel of the new party you add to the conversation, the quicker you'll see the assumptions you've been devising that have been preventing you from seeing the alternatives you could search for.

And present is a ordinal thoughts. I've used it in boardrooms, huddle rooms, offices, parkland benches and on airplanes:

Version 3 - The Shuffle

Whether you're testing to puzzle out a enterprise dynamic for a client, or the entity is middle to your own firm productivity, kickshaw the substance resembling pieces in a Rubik's solid. Shuffling all the rumour into new positions and dynamical their pairings lets you see them in a new way. It can against the clock tell the assumptions that have been stall your development.

Write all the issues and design on divide pieces of paper, and set of two them up by chance. You can use Post-It Notes, torn paper, the rear of company cards! On a abstracted chunk of dissertation occupation each of the 'new' thinking that comes to cognition.

If you're doing this as a team, victimization thick notes up on the partition lets everyone's be concerned enrol in, jotting, walk and sharing the new accepted wisdom and realizations.

You'll saturate pages of alternate philosophy that you can let yourself or your troop maintain to investigation and romp with, so be certain to set a instance apparent horizon for The Shuffle and for once you'll sit down over again to variety through and rank those new planning.

You know you've got something your mind's been chew on. So grab this Reframe technique and apply it today and let's get you wiggly once again so you can augment your profitability this hebdomad.

Copyright (c) 2008 Linda Feinholz