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- P r o f e s s i o n a l _ D e v e l o p m e n t -
By Robert Alan Black, Ph.D.
B -- broaden your interests or explore in many areas when seeking information or to understand something new.
R -- reverse viewpoints or perspectives deliberately to see things in new or different ways.
O -- open yourself up to an infinite number of possible ideas.
K -- kick back and let your imagination float or run around.
E -- eliminate steps in procedures to discover new ways to simplify them or solve your problems.
N -- never say never. Keep yourself open to positives in all things or situations.
C -- combine ideas, new and old, tried and experimental, ones you agree with, with ones you don't think will work at first.
R -- rearrange steps, facts, data, ideas, people to create new or unique approaches to problems.
A -- adapt or alter existing ideas to produce new ones.
Y -- yield not to temptation to give up and quit.
O -- orient differently, switch, change, alter, combine, past, present, future, here, there, somewhere, nowhere.
N -- noodle around, play with ideas, look at it as a child or an animal might.
S -- sleep on it for awhile, let your intuitive or subconscious mind work on your problem or situation.
Robert Alan Black, Ph.D. is the author of Broken Crayons: Break Your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines. He can be reached at 1-800-536-0476 or at merrybeing@athens.net