Are you as good in sniffing for opportunities as these dogs are?

English: Female Lagotto Romagnolo, 2½ years old
English: Female Lagotto Romagnolo, 2½ years old (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

California landowners are planting orchards of truffles in the hopes of harvesting them because world demand is rising. Black truffles which come from Europe or Australia cost anything between $800 to $1 200 for 0.5kg but supplies are shrinking while appetites are expanding worldwide, according to AP report.

Black truffle hunting dogs such as the Italian Lagotto Romagnolo are some of the best to sniff out the “diamonds” of the culinary world. They sniff for signs of Perigord and burgundy truffles on the roots of oak and hazelnut trees planted next to vineyards. Winemakers started planting truffle orchards five years ago and want to harvest their truffles next year. Continue reading “Are you as good in sniffing for opportunities as these dogs are?”

Explore your creativity – live with more possibility

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If you want to be more creative, you become so by being more creative.

You may have got here because you feel you’ve lost that creative spark.

You feel you deserve more out of life.

You could be facing personal and business challenges in this depressed economy.

What can you do about it?

Please do me a small favour and read on. It could prove valuable to you.

Listen up. You will find out how you can increase your creativity and come up with new approaches, new ideas and possibilities.

You can immediately apply the techniques and ideas to your personal, working and business life. With enough motivation, you can use the tools and techniques and without anyone knowing you are using them.

New ideas can lead to personal or business breakthroughs. People need to come up with new ideas to respond to challenges, problems and difficulties they are facing. But often they just can’t make a personal breakthrough. They rack their brains but still nothing comes.

Other people come up with “brilliant” ideas but they are just too impractical or improbable. Others may have great ideas but they don’t know how to develop and implement them and worse they go about it in the wrong way.

How do you come up with new approaches, new ideas and increase your creativity? How can you accelerate your ideas to get more of what you want in life?

My book, “Breakthrough Ideas” shows you simple and practical ways to come up with new ideas. It is based on research into creativity, proven methods, ideas that have succeeded and grounded in real-world experience. By the end of the first chapter, which will only take a few minutes to read, you will be producing new ideas that could spark your personal breakthrough.

Chesney Bradshaw has a background in business communications, marketing, startups, consulting and publishing.Chesney has a  Masters in Business Administration, Herriot-Watt, Edinburgh, UK, and a BA Communications degree from the University of South Africa. He is author of "Breakthrough Ideas."
Chesney Bradshaw has a background in business. He has an MBA, Herriot-Watt, Edinburgh, UK, and a BA Communications degree from the University of South Africa.

Here are a few “golden rules” that will help you become more creative and speed your creativity:

– Use simple techniques that are proven and which you enjoy
– Personal breakthroughs come when you are prepared – practice, practice, practice
– See your world through fresh eyes
– You become more creative by using creative tools more often
– Linking unrelated objects often leads to unexpected new combinations
– Letting ideas “cool” before evaluating them leads you select the most promising one
– Commercialising ideas follows a definite process and framework that is easy to understand and simple to apply

Are you ready to learn to accelerate your idea generation? By investing a few hours in yourself you’ll find solutions faster, come up with more viable ideas and increase possibilities in your life. Go here to find “Breakthrough Ideas”.

Thousands have this priceless gift – but how many discover its potential?

(Copyright © 2015 by Chesney Bradshaw, all rights reserved)
(Copyright © 2015 by Chesney Bradshaw, all rights reserved)

I heard about an estate agent who hasn’t sold a house in this market for a year.

It’s unbelievable how we get into a rut and just can’t find our way out.

Let’s wind back for a second. With all his experience you would think that he would come up with new ideas, new approaches even new opportunities. But he remains stuck in a terrible position of misfortune.

Why is it that people don’t use their inborn creative mechanism when faced with a crisis? Why when they could use their creativity and come up with a fresh plan, a new way out? Continue reading “Thousands have this priceless gift – but how many discover its potential?”

Thinking fast and slow – speed thinking for great ideas

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English: A Facial mask. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In 2014 a massage therapist planted the seed for an idea that would grow into a retail beauty salon chain. Ian Fuhr, the founder of Sorbet, didn’t want to retire and was eager for a new challenge. Today Sorbet has close to 40 outlets with revenues of around R100 million a year.

People need to come up with new ideas to respond to challenges, problems and difficulties they are facing. They also may want to stretch themselves and come up with new ways to realise their aspirations. But they just can’t make a personal breakthrough. They rack their brains but still nothing comes. Continue reading “Thinking fast and slow – speed thinking for great ideas”

The power of innovation – accelerated thinking

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Beach from East London (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

An East London father was at the beach when his son was stung by a bluebottle. The father tried several common but ineffective traditional remedies to relieve the sting. He did research afterwards. Solution? The enzyme from pawpaw. The father now sells his product for bluebottle and insect stings.

People need to come up with new ideas to respond to challenges, problems and difficulties they are facing. They also may be looking for opportunities to turn their ideas into new products and services. But they just can’t make a personal breakthrough. They rack their brains but still nothing comes. Continue reading “The power of innovation – accelerated thinking”

Five creativity techniques to help you in your personal life and business

 

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The seed of success for most things in life — personal relationships, health, business, community — is creative thinking. It doesn’t matter if it’s thinking disguised as intuition, decision-making or problem-solving.

Creativity helps you come up with more imaginative ideas, do something new and different and even profit from your ideas if they are materialised into products and services.

Continue reading “Five creativity techniques to help you in your personal life and business”