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"Good ideas are everywhere, but it's hard to see them when you won't look outside of your box."

A thought by John C. Maxwell (2012-10-02) from his book, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential (pp. 202-203). Center Street. Kindle Edition.

So many times it is in a crisis that we come up with a good idea.  Now we may be able to avert the crisis by stopping and looking outside the box before we have to but we don't.

It is also important to see that the only way many problems can be solved is by looking outside the box.  That is where frustration comes when one won’t look outside and thus can’t solve their problem.

What problem are you in the midst of right now?  How are you striving to solve it?   Are you frustrated, really frustrated because you can’t solve it?  Maybe you have never looked outside the box before and you need help. 

One thing I have done is to set down with a note pad and put 1-10 on the side and come up with 10 different options.  Some that make since and some that don’t.  I just would be creative and then go from there.

Also I try to get around people who think outside the box and then just start talking.  If money was no object, if time was no object, if people were no object, what could we do?  And then go from there.

“Good ideas are everywhere, but it’s hard to see them when you won’t look outside of your box.”

So what’s your problem?

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