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- To a fresh business idea: stop what you are currently doing and do something very different. Start with visiting a museum or gallery. Don't try and get a fresh idea, allow the brain to be massaged, stretched and perplexed. Carry a notebook; fresh ideas will appear: you need to be ready to capture them.
- To your first novel: aim for quantity. Set an audacious goal e.g. 1000 words/day (assuming you are working). Write everywhere: on the train, at lunch-break, on the way home. At the weekend edit your weekly 5000 words. From quantity get quality.
- To a more motivated team: have 1 to 1s. Spend time with each person in your team, individually and in private. This is never time 'wasted' but an incredible investment in building trust. Have honest conversations about changes which need to happen and where you can and cannot help their career. The team mood will improve dramatically as they see a leader who does actually care about them.
- To healthier eating: if there is one rare thing on which all research, all diets and all cultures appear to agree it's more vegetables in the diet. Eat more vegetables. Go for locally grown, focus on colour green and steam cook to protect the vitality of the vegetable.
- To build your personal brand: collect feedback from everybody. Look for the themes. Act upon those. Re-do the feed-back in 12 months. Your brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room.