Ingenious ideas are often born from challenges we'd like to overcome or opportunities we'd like to seize. If ideation and innovation aren't really our thing, we need to enlist blue-sky thinkers to brainstorm about our desired outcome. Good ideas often come from bad ones or from ideas that were good once upon a time but are no longer viable. Generating grand ideas and fostering an environment of innovation begins with a positive, can-do attitude … we need to check reality at the door and have fun. Start small, if necessary, but shake things up and try a new approach whenever possible. Here's an idea: let's try taking a different route to work tomorrow and see what we'll learn. What old idea, turned new, could breathe new life into your life?
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