Did you know that creativity is something that everybody possesses and that all you need to do is activate it? When you need a burst of creative energy the easiest method to employ is a creative exercise that is designed to free your brain from verbal processing and into visual processing, which then allows for novel and innovative ideas to flow. There are a lot of exercises you can do, many of which take mere seconds from start to finish.
One of these is something that will take you somewhere between 10 seconds and 20 seconds to accomplish. Please don’t tell me you can’t spare that amount of time. 
This is from the book referenced in yesterday’s post.
First, draw free-form squiggles on a piece of paper. They might look like this:
Now add in a circle ( o ) and an open triangle ( < ) on it somewhere:
And there you go: a free-form bird. Next time you go into one of those meetings where you are supposed to come up with solutions (yes, I hear meetings sometimes have these kinds of goals, though usually the goal is to show off how much you know to your colleagues) doodle these on a piece of paper while you think. Your creative brain will awaken and the ideas will begin formulating.
What’s even better is that the ideas you do have will likely come in the form of visual ideas instead of verbal ideas. If you can get the rest of your group to visualize a potential idea too, then the group will evaluate it much more effectively (realistically) than it would with just words.
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