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Business Brainstorms 6 Ways to ignite your creative-thinking processes

By Carolyn Campbell

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Remember that exciting, lightning-flash moment when youconceived your first idea for a homebased business? That initialelectric charge of creativity is often followed by bursts of energythat help you complete vital tasks and spur you on to make yourbusiness ideas become realities. Many experts feel that, ratherthan being a personality trait, creativity is a way of thinkingthat entrepreneurs can take advantage of to build their businessesin innovative and profitable ways.

The following suggestions are offered to help you make the mostof creativity techniques in originating, developing and expandingyour homebased business.

1. Explore creative-thinking methods. Creativity guruEdward De Bono says that creativity is like the reverse shift in acar. While you would not dream of driving along in reverse all thetime, if you did not know how to use reverse, you would be unableto get out of blind alleys, thus limiting your generalmaneuverability.

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