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Chi Chat – what links creativity, change & control?

Those are three very charged words – creativity; change; control – and all of them are in great use these days, what do you think links them together?

1. A shift in thinking

All three require a shift in your thinking.
They require that you look at the world differently.
A fresh approach is necessary.

2. Different behaviours

All three require different behaviours than your habitual ones.
You will need/want to go about similar activities in atypical ways.
This will involve making new habits.

3. And an alteration of emotions

Equally important will be that all three will require the exploration of different emotions.
Along with your thinking and behaving habit patterns, you also have an emotional groove.
It is amazingly refreshing to ‘try on’ new emotional responses.

Be aware of the formulas and tools that may enhance your creativity.

4. Creativity

I just shared a session to stimulate the ‘creativity’ of a large group to help them reach their goal of innovative service. I covered two main aspects: the formulas which can help or hinder your creativity and some tools to enhance your creative accessing.

The biggest issue is that many of your formulas HINDER your creativity.
Here is the first one – if I ask you ‘On a scale of 0 (that is with effort) to 100 (bristling with creativity) how creative are you?’ And your answer is: _________________

Sadly, most people are less than 50%!
And the cruncher here is that how you feel about your creativity is your reality.
If you think you are about 22% – that is how much effort and focus you will give the situation. Change that formula and you change your reality and become more creative!

5. Change

You probably feel very differently if you are leading the change, or it is being ‘done’ to you! The main difference between these is the level of control that you feel you have.

At The Change Maker Group we provide sessions for teams, groups, charities and organisations to explore the mindsets and skills necessary for you to thrive with leading and following change.

When you own a change mentality you will make full use of your creativity to employ the full range of control that you do have.

6. Control

Probably one of the worst feelings you can experience is lack of control. This rapidly leads to hopelessness and depression. It is easy to understand how feeling you are not very creative and that change is being done to you would lead to a reinforcement that you have no control.

However, with the 8-steps of Mind Chi you know how to have control over yourself. And that is the only thing you can ever have any real control over! There is an immediate and dramatic shift in your thinking, behaviours and emotions when you realise that you have the most crucial control of all.

A wonderful side effect of boosting your creativity feeling, having the mindset to thrive on change and that you have control over yourself is that you dramatically build your resilience to whatever life may allow you to experience. A really good R.O.I.!

Please contact us if you are feeling the need to enhance your creativity.

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To request a 15 minute Mind Chi Chat with Vanda to explore how Mind Chi might assist you, your group, team or company build resilience and joy! 
Vanda@TheChangeMakergroup.com or Vanda@MindChi.com

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Here is a short cartoon about ‘Resilience for Change’

All there is to know about brain-friendly selling

Chi spring into selling!!!

In my enthusiastic spring clean out, Chi & I found some books!

They were written by the marriage of Tony Buzan on using your brain and Richard Israel on sales smarts.
Together they made 4 ‘babies’ – I was the mid-wife! Then Tony Dottino joined us and we made one more
(The Brain Smart Leader) which included his business acumen. What a winning team!!

We hope that you may find them of use, enjoyment, mental stimulation and a walk down memory lane!!
Whether selling a concept, a service or a gadget these wise words will provide a gentle and effective way to discover a perfect brain match, and happy sales.

This is what I have:
7 x Brain Smart Leader was £32.95
5 x Brain Sell was £16.99
19 x SuperSellf was £13.50
3 x Sales Genius was £20.95
That would make 3 complete sets of the 4 books above – a complete library of brain-friendly selling!!!

Brain Sell – 1995

Brain Sell was the first to be born. I remember the great excitement after a very celebratory dinner, where we were discussing the concept, and the name ‘Brain Sell’ was born – sheer genius!

This book is the great merger of all Richard taught in his ‘Last 4 feet’ seminars and Tony introduced through the application of brain function.

Super Sellf – 1997

Then because of the workshops we were doing for managers, there was a request for an action booklet for the ones on the ‘sales front line’. This cartoon book, drawn by Dru Fuller was born.
This is a fill in as you go ‘how to sell’ book for the people actually doing the selling.

The Brain Smart Leader – 1999

By this time Tony Dottino had become a Buzan Instructor and added all his business and finance management expertise. This was one of the very few books to show you how to actually sort out the problem, work a solution and then measure it’s effectiveness.

Tony still presents these programmes to business in the USA.

All four of the Brain Sell series

All now at 30% OFF!!!

SALE PRICES:
7 x Brain Smart Leader was £32.95 now £23.00
5 x Brain Sell was £16.99 now £12.00
19 x SuperSellf was £13.50 now £9.00
3 x Sales Genius was £20.95 now £14.50
Set of all 4 sales books was £84.39 now £55.00 (a 35% discount)

They will need to be posted from the UK, so I will work out the postage, and they are quite heavy! When they are gone… they are gone – end of that amazing story!!

Chi & I wish you joyful sales experiences!

Grab your Sales Genius NOW!!!

To request a 15 minute Mind Chi Chat with Vanda to explore how Mind Chi might assist you, your group, team or company build resilience and joy! 
Vanda@TheChangeMakergroup.com or Vanda@MindChi.com

And for more marvellous Mind Chi blogs:

Want more resilience for your organisation, here:

Here is a short cartoon about ‘Resilience for Change’