How to get out of your own way: Strategies for thinking outside of the box 17 Articles

by Kelley Robertson

Is your head trash piling up? The term "head trash" came up during a conversation with a colleague and he used the phrase to describe the mental garbage that affects the performance of most sales people. Head trash is a...read more

by Jennifer Manlowe

On a good day, many of us will find it difficult to bring into reality our dream vocation, our right-livelihood or what some call our "true calling." But, the majority of us retreat into predictable routineseven preferrin...read more

by Pnk Guru

Entrepreneurs think the way they are taught by their fore fathers in the field, may be his father or uncle, his trainer or training books, his experience or colleagues' experience! This amounts to thinking in his own way o...read more

by Zoey Day

WHAT WOULD YOU NEVER DO? For years we have heard the term "think outside the box" but have we lost the true meaning of the phrase? Sometimes overuse of a phrase becomes a cliche that is ignored and under-valued. But it ...read more

by William Bond

Too often you look at the same strategies which worked for you in the past and want to try them. Funny thing, these same strategies will not work today. Yesterday is over, and today demands more ideas, brighter solutions...read more

by Ms.Crystal Lax

Thinking Out Side Of The Box You Can Be Your Worst Enemy The worst enemy that can destroy your dreams in life can be you. If we have a close mind about accepting new ideas,and new ways of doing things. We can hinder ...read more

by Scott Orr

"We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all" - Donald M. Nelson In the early eighties, Steve Jobs walked into a design meeting at Apple with a telephone book and ...read more

by William Rodgers

Escaping The Matrix One of my mottos has always been "work smarter...not harder". I guess that's why I never could hold a traditional/regular job down because that WAS definitely harder. I gave away my precious time and...read more

by Rhonda Swider

In his First Inaugural Address, FDR stated "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." The setting was the Great Depression, and these words echoed with a new found optimism, and rang out words of encouragement for a...read more

by Kimberly Wiefling

There are plenty of challenges in our lives, however some of them are of our own making. We undermine ourselves, make assumptions about what's possible that restrict our choices, and let our fears stop us from even trying ...read more

by Bob Schmidt

A great strategy for thinking "outside of the box" is to try to ignore the programming that structures your way of thinking presently. The expression that "we've always done it this way" exemplifies programmed thinking. Un...read more

by Possible Wealth

Can anything be possible? Yes and No. Currently, we have heard rumors that the marketplace has slowed down...Yet the internet has proved otherwise that many entrepreneurs have been generating substantial amount of incomes...read more

by Marco Angioni II

In this day and age, telling somebody to think "outside the box" is pretty clich. However, despite the overuse of the phrase, the concept that is encompasses is still sound strategy. Thinking outside the box or creative ...read more

by Stephen Carter

There are two primary ways we get in our own way. First, there is what Anthony Robbins refers to as 'state management'. By this he means managing 'emotional states'. A negative, destructive emotional or attitudinal state m...read more

by Dexie Runns Long

"Thinking outside the box" is one of those phrases we hear all of the time nowadays yet fail to ever stop and ask ourselves just what the hell it is supposed to mean. What does it mean to think outside the box? What is t...read more

by Lori Voth

Occasionally, we get so caught up in our daily routine of going through our comfortable motions of life as we've established them that to shift gears suddenly and do something totally different, or think about something fr...read more

by Kevin J. Putnam

"Do not be afraid to make mistakes!" The quickest way out of the box is to take a risk. The only way to get out of the box is to jump. To get out of the box, you have to follow your thinking. Follow thought to thought, ide...read more