8 Strategies to ROCK your Innovation.
Do you consider yourself innovative? If you don’t you need to stand up, walk to a mirror, look into your eyes and give yourself a good hard LOVE SLAP right across your face.
Hell YA you are innovative!
In fact it’s not a matter of IF you are (’cause you are) but rather IF you OWN IT. When you tap into your unique creativity to leverage (INNOVATE) from who you are….all kinds of rewarding things will start to happen in your life. Trust me. Innovation is the most important element to success in your business, work and personal life.
ROCK YOUR LIFE TIP: REMEMBER THAT IT’S NOT ALWAYS ABOUT REINVENTION TO CREATE SUCCESS. MOST OFTEN IT HAS MORE TO DO WITH INNOVATION. #YESYOUCAN
Here are 8 steps to Rock YOUR Innovation:
1. IGNITE YOUR PASSION
Start with your passion (connect, learn + embrace it). What juices you up? What gives you energy instead of draining you?
2. LEARN + EXPAND
Educate yourself on how others are creating success from their passions (those with similar passions and those who are different than you).
***Important note! Be sure you are educating yourself on what they do and how they do it and not comparing yourself with what they do and how they do it (that totally, absolutely, 100% kills innovation). Comparison is the thief of JOY!
3. CREATE + EXPRESS
Create a product, service and/or community that allows you to express your passion. And don’t worry about making money….this process is more about making meaning (the money will come).
4. DESIGN AUTHENTICALLY
Add your secret sauce (also known as the kick ass package of everything YOU!). Your history, experiences, losses, successes, quirks, habits, talents, opinions, perspectives, desires–all of this adds up to your “secret sauce”.
5. SHARE. NOW. NOT TOMORROW.
Start sharing your product. Just start. DO NOT WAIT FOR PERFECTION or THE “RIGHT” TIME. JUST DO IT.
6. REVIEW. REVISE. REVITALIZE.
Get feedback. Take inventory of what works, what doesn’t and how your processes/product can be revamped, refurbished and revitalized to best serve your needs and the needs of those you seek to serve! Remember you will be crappy in the beginning (or at least a version of not your best). It’s OK to not be great. Not being great and in progress is a hell of a lot better than not being great and doing nothing. As Master Trainer David TS Wood says, “Every master was once a disaster!”.
7. KEEP THE MOMENTUM.
Evolve. Innovate. JUST KEEP GOING.
8. REPEAT. REPEAT. REPEAT.
Repeat number 7 on an ongoing basis (seek a coach or accountability partner to keep your momentum on the upswing).
YOU. ARE. INNOVATIVE.
Cheers to your innovative awesomeness,
