Improve Your Creativity, With a Weekly Experiment Day

If you look at your life right now, you will find that you are incredibly predictable and set in your tracks in many ways. I don't care whether you are a nineteen-year-old college student or a fifty-five-year-old corporate president. If you look at your life, it is very predictable. You get up about the same time each day, drive the same way to work and eat in the same small circle of restaurants. Each week, you watch the same TV shows, read the same magazines, and listen to the same radio station. This type of behavior is, of course, not conducive to creative thinking. Instead, it is rigid and boring. The good news is you can change it quickly and easily by designating one day a week in your life as Experiment Day.

Let's designate Wednesday (Hump Day) as Experiment Day because they are in the middle of the week when creativity is often at its' lowest point. Try to involve your spouse or friends in your experiment as well. There is only one rule, and it is simple. On Experiment Day, you do things differently than during the rest of the week. Start your day by getting up one hour earlier, staying in bed one hour longer, and reading something new outside your normal gene. It does not matter which. What is essential on Experiment Day is for you to take four or five things in your life that are constantly the same and change them. Have something totally different for breakfast crush avocado, huevos rancheros, or Kimchi. Wear something different than you would typically wear. A different style, different color, or totally different look.

Drive Different?

Drive to work taking a totally different route, even if it's longer. You will see different billboards, people, businesses, buildings, and land for sale. Each new thing you encounter by taking a different route or changing your time may be an opportunity waiting to happen. A change of environment stimulates the mind and often brings opportunities into your life.

Better still cycle to work or take a bus, train, underground, walk, river taxi or car-pool find a different method of getting there.

Listen Different?

On your way to work, tune into a different radio station. If you usually listen to rock music, tune into classical music or talk station. If you listen to an oldies station, change to rap and resist the temptation to turn it off after the first song. Instead, stick it out until you get to work. If the songs are horrible, you may even find yourself hoping that you will get to work sooner just so you can turn it off. But that's good too because it stimulates you into a good attitude about getting to work.

At work, hang out with a different colleague and reach out to a new customer. Make a connection with someone new on LinkedIn and follow up with real interaction.

Eat Different?

At lunch, go to a different restaurant -- not your usual one. Then, instead of ordering a burger and fries, try something you have never tasted before Sushi, Korean Barbecue, Indian or Thai.

EntertainYourself Differently?

On your way home or online, pick up a copy of a magazine you have never read before you go home. Then read it. It doesn't matter whether you have any interest in the subject matter. That's not the point. In fact, it is better if you pick up a magazine on a subject that may not be of much interest to you. Try a flying or diving magazine. How about model trains, horse riding, fishing, or travel? Spend the time you would have spent watching TV reading your magazine to gain more knowledge, insight, and ideas. I have often gotten great ideas from reading magazines on subjects that bore no relation to anything that interests me in a waiting room.

Drink Different?

While you read, drink a different brand of beer or substitute soda for your fruit juice. Drink white wine instead of red or Gin instead of Vodka. Or mix a killer new Martini concoction.

If you follow this simple plan of changing your routine and broadening your experience base just one day every week, you will be delighted by the new things you will find in your life. It is also amazing how simple minor changes like this, done regularly, can help increase your creativity enormously.

After your first Experiment Day, list as many new people, places, opportunities, feelings, and experiences as you can remember.

• What did you have for a different breakfast?
• What did you wear?
• How did you get to work?
• What route did you take?
• What did you see that caught your attention?
• Where did you have lunch?
• What did you eat?
• What kind of different feelings did it invoke?
• What did you learn from reading a different magazine?
• Did you really miss the routine?

I twice bought a house jogging up a new street and seeing the people move out, although there was no sign saying the home was for sale. I have frequently got good ideas from seeing different billboards on a new route. My wife has made some fantastic taste discoveries by cooking something each week we have never eaten before.

Continue this process every week for three months and keep notes of your findings. It is sure to stimulate new thinking and possibilities.

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