I often find myself sitting at my desk, hands on my head, staring at the ceiling as I try and make sense of the many ideas floating around in my head at a given moment. Usually, it is right before I find the inspiration to put the finishing touches on some task at hand. It’s amazing how a little time for thinking can turn what seems like a 5-hour task into no more than 30 minutes. Or how taking the time to think can allow you to understand risks that you hadn’t yet considered.
It’s amazing how a little time for thinking can turn what seems like a 5-hour task into no more than 30 minutes. Or how taking the time to think can allow you to understand risks that you hadn’t yet considered.
Our minds are amazing tools. They are capable of taking many disconnected and seemingly unrelated pieces of information and joining them up into something new and different. How often has a TV show, book, movie or song suddenly given you the inspiration to solve a problem that had a moment before seemed insurmountable?
If we give our minds the time and opportunity to help us, they will. But it’s no different than anything else – you have to give it the opportunity. Usually that means stepping away from the computer, phone, and email for a bit.