Writers call it writer’s block. However, most creative fields have the equivalent and believe me, being an entrepreneur or an investor is a creative field. Use that big brain long and hard enough and you’re going to hit a wall, drained of all possible ideas and solutions.
When my brain gets zapped, I pull something out of my bag of tricks. My fave has to be breaking into a brand new book, especially one designed for exactly that purpose.
Like It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be by Paul Arden.
This book is small, short, has pictures, white space out the kazoo, not a lot of words and some of those words are upside down or in red or in monster large font.
Which is exactly why it works.
Sure, there are some valuable insights like “Do Not Covet Your Ideas.”
“If you give away everything you have, you are left with nothing. This forces you to look, to be aware, to replenish.”
But the real value is the mental stimulation of merely reading the book. I was thrown out of my comfort zone. My brain had to use muscles it hadn’t exercised in a while. Those muscles, once warmed up, started pumping out fresh, new solutions. Solutions that could make me money.
And I was back.