Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

Open your mind up to things that have no connection with the problem you're trying to solve: subscribe to an unusual magazine; spend a morning at an elementary school; go to work two hours early; test drive an exotic car; attend a city council meeting; ...try an Indonesian recipe.

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

Am I Getting Lazy? Am I Too Busy? Am I Becoming Arrogant? Am I Getting Timid? If you answer 'yes' to any one of these questions, that's your warning to Kick that attitude!

When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking.