Improving Creativity and Performance the Natural Way

Dr. Jose A. Bardelas Jr. MD Improving Creativity and Performance By Steve Sharpley

Access Your Natural Creativity and Peak Performance - When You Need It!

Where are you and what are you doing when you come up with your best ideas, or new solutions to business issues? Odds are, it’s not at your desk. The answers I typically receive are:in the shower; while driving; while ironing; going to sleep; just waking up; at the gym; on holiday or the beach; or gardening.

Whenever or wherever I’ve asked clients this around the world over the last 9 year, rarely have people said when I’m at work - regardless of whether they have been workers, managers or leaders. This should be extremely worrying for anyone looking for improved performance, new ideas and products,or competitive advantage.

The common theme is that these new ideas emerge at times when our mind is relaxed - and it is then that we are at our most creative. Our state of mind will have shifted, moving away from the effortful intellectual and rational, into the natural ‘In Flow’ state with the effortless free flow of thought which accompanies being in a more relaxed state and delivers fresh answers.

Now think of a time when you have performed at your best, or maybe way beyond your typical level, whether at work, on the golf course or else where. How, were you feeling at the time and what state of mind were you in?

Perhaps you can recognise like others have tended to do, that our optimum performance occurs when we are not really thinking about anything except what we are doing. You were more than likely to be relaxed and anything that came up you just dealt with, without making a fuss or getting upset. This is the ‘In Flow’ State of Mind and experience of Peak Performance when it occurs. Unfortunately we don’t usually know why it has happened, what we did to assist it occurring or how to repeat it more consistently.

Imagine being able to access your creativity (which we all have - and I say this as someone who never used to believe he was creative) and performing consistently at your best, whenever you need to. Imagine being able to do this by simple shift of mind rather than hoping it shows up.

The next time you need to access your creativity for some new fresh ideas or be at your best - wherever you are - get calm, get focused by bring your minds attention back to the present moment, access this calmer quieter state of mind and let your ideas and performance flow.

To be able to navigate our lives more effectively, be more creative and have a more consistently positive experience of life and optimum results, we need to understand, distinguish and be able to navigate and shift between these two states of mind. It’s an ability we were born with, yet the world around us teaches most of us to rely solely on the intellectual, rational approach. When we learn how to reconnect with the whole of our minds capacities, amazing things can happen more by choice than happenstance.

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