Welcome to the wonderful world of blogs - Part III/c

- Start with clean slate. It is very important and is one of the reasons, early mornings are the best for generating ideas. Like it takes clean environment, for plants to grow, ideas need a clean, fertile place to grow. Like plants can't grow in some place that is already crowded with other plants, ideas can't grow when too many of them criss-cross the mind.

- Rekindle your Imagination. When we were children, we all had lots of imagination. But, most of us lost it on the way to becoming adults. No matter how much difficult it may be, bring that back into your life. People with great imagination breathe ideas all the time. I read somewhere, about Einstein, the greatest physist the 20th century saw, mentioning about one of his dreams as a child chasing a photon. The scientiest carried his dreams through his adulthold as well, till he discovered the photon and many mysteries surrounding it. We too are capable of discoveries (of ideas), if we are careful enough to carry the power of imagination into our adulthood.

- Warm up. If you ask me, getting up early in the morning at 5'o clock and sitting at one place, imagining that the ideas will pour in is just foolish. I rarely am capable of bringing ideas like this. I need to walk around, may be jog up a bit, play a bit, something that will re-energise my mind and that will help me warm up. However, different people may have different ways to warm up. I've not studied people deeply enough to know all of them, but I am sure it is possible.

- Mix primary colors. Whenever my kid of 4 years plays with his 'Leapfrog' multimedia game, I hear this often - "Mix two primary colors to make a secondary color". It is a game which teaches kids about colors. When I thought about it, I found that it is a good analogy to explain about ideas and how they can be created. Like there are primary colors, there exists primary ideas (may not be 3 no.s as in the case of primary colors). When you mix two primary ideas, you get newer ones. ONe learning from this analogy is that there are infinite ideas possible, from just a handful of ideas. Just mix and match.

-Practice. Practice really makes one perfect. Practice is the only thing that make one perfect. If you have fear for anything, do that first, so that you will feel better and easy with the rest of the tasks. It will give you lot of confidence and help you face similar challenges. So, practice thinking, practice creating metaphors and ideas. You will find it much easier to do the same thing the second time around and each time subsequently.

There could be plenty more. But, I think that these the most imporant and will cover for most of those not mentioned here.