THE POWER OF NO
SAY NO & GROW – WHEN YOU START SAYING NO – YOU GROW YOUR YESES
I’ve worked all my life in the creative industries and one of the most powerful tools you can use to generate new positive ideas is to come up with negative ideas!
People find it hard to come up with creative positive ideas BUT easy to generate lots of negative ideas like, ‘what’s the worst thing we can do to launch this business?’ or ‘what’s the worst strapline you can think of for this brand?’
The reason why it’s easy to generate lots of bad ideas is because there’s no fear of failure.
The objective is to come up with the worst idea so therefore if it’s bad it’s good.
So the trick is to come up with as many bad ideas as possible because in the bad ideas are the seeds of the good ideas. They start to stand out as you start to look at what are the opposites of these bad ideas, because the opposite can be a very good idea.
I call this the POWER OF NO – and it also works for goal setting. A lot of us don’t know what we want to do, but we do know what we don’t want to do…
So write down as many things as possible that you don’t want to do and you’ll be surprised how this starts to shift you towards your true purpose.
In deciding who you do not want to become, you naturally discover who you want to be.
When you have strong Nos – you know what you stand for and against – you are moving towards your purpose.
STEP 1
Make a list of your ABSOLUTE Nos.
What’s compatible with who you want to be? e.g.
– Don’t drink alcohol
– Don’t stay up late watching TV
– Don’t blame, gossip, complain
STEP 2
Make a list of your ABSOLUTE Yeses.
What’s compatible with who you want to be? e.g.
– I’m an achiever
– I live authentically
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