Overcoming The Mid-project Blues and a new creativity exercise

Segment 1: Overcoming the Mid-Project Blues

• Project go through three phases
  • Start-up Enthusiasm
  • Mid-Project Blues
  • End-of-Project Euphoria (blog entry on recent launch)
• How do you overcome?
  • Remind yourself why you started the project (e.g. go back to you notebooks and re-live the start)
  • Take break … go on vacation
  • Come up with new ideas for the project (e.g. develop the plans for after launch)

Segment 2: Listener Question

"I’m a creative person.  How do I get a job that is a better fit?"

Segment 3: Creativity Exercise

• - Paper or something else to write on (e.g. index cards)
• - Pen or pencil
• - A stop watch or egg timer
• - imagine you were just given a pen made of clear plastic
• - There is one issue – it has no ink.
• - In one minute, how many ideas can you come up with?

The most I’ve seen is about a dozen or so ….. all in one minute.