Insight — from babies.

A very insightful article I came across recently, really got me thinking. Babies have it right — they explore and experiment openly with life, without fear of making mistakes, or even awareness that mistakes exist.

In fact, when babies engage in a task or challenge, they instinctively shut out the rest of the world and concentrate deeply to connect with the task at hand and follow it through to its completion. There's no thought or concern about the implications of the action. When a child is learning to walk she doesn't have thoughts like "What if i don't make it over to the table with the shiny object on it before it's removed?" or, "If I fall down, will people laugh?" They don't worry about getting things right on the first try.   > Read more.

Boosting creativity.

If you're trying to foster creativity in your day-to-day work, there are things you can do to boost your imagination and get the creative juices to flow. Here are some great techniques:

1. Brainstorm. Write down every single thing that comes to your mind when you're trying to address something. Eliminate nothing. Be ridiculous... silly even. Genius can come from the seemingly unlikely.
2. Carry a notebook. As your mind wanders while engaged in other tasks, things will occur to you. Write them down. Don't address them; re-engage and review again later. Sometimes ideas comes from lack of effort to think of them.
3. If you're stuck for an idea, open a dictionary, randomly select a word... read more on our blog.

Insight180 sponsors Chamber event.

 
 


Insight180 is sponsoring the Howard County Chamber's "meet and greet the candidates" event on September 2nd and two debates in October.

For more information on attending, go to the Chamber website.

Don’t forget to exercise your right to vote!