Apartment brainstorming

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I am attending the Multi Family Brainstorming session in Orlando this week. I went to the opening reception and met a few fun people. One of the things they do to break the ice is to have a costume party on the first day. They set out a table for people to pick costume stuff up and invent a costume. it is a great way to make a fool of yourself and share a few chuckles with your fellow seminar attendees. It also helps create an atmosphere of fun where people are not afraid to bring up interesting and hairbrain marketing ideas. Most good ideas didn’t start as good ideas, even if the person who first thought the idea, thought the idea was a good one. Do you know what I mean? Everyone loves to say, “It won’t work.” “That’s silly.” and other un-encouraging things when you have an idea. This tends to make people not want to have ideas, or at least not want to talk about them or try to implement them.

We all know the only way to have innovation is to keep thinking up things to try and then trying them. But most of us are not surrounded by supportive people, nor are we often supportive to others. Well knock it off! Start surrounding yourself with people who will support your ideas and help you develop the ones that turn out to have merit. And start being a supportive person to the people in your circle who have ideas, whether you like the ideas or not. I thought Jiffy Lube was a stupid idea. Wow. Was I wrong about that one.

Bye for now, Tron

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