Tips for Better Understanding

1. Pretend you are the only source of wisdom to you and your readers.

Start writing and something will flow.  I start with 10 Tips on XXX , put number one sown and expect an insight or statement on the topic to follow.  And it always does.  I don’t stop until I get ten.  I even pretend I am squeezing toothpaste (insight) out of the tube and I’m not stopping until all is squeezed out.

2. Seek for insight in unusual places.

Listen to life: its mistakes, its appreciation, its lessons, its overcoming, other’s problems that no longer effect you…anything is a candidate to develop a set of tips.  Ponder, consider, incubate, mull over, Isolate all else, lean on it.   You will amaze yourself at what comes out.

3. Hold the insight up and view it from many angles.

What it is, what it isn’t, what is different about it, interesting about it … The more variety, the more dimension and depth it has.  Consider passing thought as two-dimensional and 10 Tip as three-dimensional thinking.

4. Absorb what you hear and make it personally yours.

You don’t have to have all the insight.  You can borrow from others, filter it through your experience and it becomes uniquely yours.

5. Express the insight in relation to its impact on you.

Did you receive a ‘bump’ in life?  It’s a great material to explore its effect on you.  Don’t waste it!

6. Imagine what you have to say has benefit to fifty others needing the same insight.

Without your synopsis, your wisdom, someone will definitely be
lacking.  Try to make your reader think deeper.

7. Distribute/Broadcast it so many can gain.

I have a spiritual elist, think-geek elist, and improvement elist.  It’s amazing; the more audiences I have, the more application I can give to the same thought.

8. Save it as reminder of a progress made, of help offered, of life changed.

Imagine reflecting on past thought that was generated in a season of life.  This is truly tips to yourself, and if shared with others, benefit to untold others.

9. Allow one insight beget another. It both stretches your creativity and places your innovative mind in perpetual motion.

Like one electron exciting another.  You will be amazed as the insights grow in diversity and depth.

10. Use 10 Tips to excavate insight of movies that impact you.

Listen the first time for enjoyment, the second time for insight.  With pen in hand get ready to capture life’s pointers from the movie.  My favorites:  “Remember the Titans” (team), Instinct (control), I Am Sam (pure love), K-Pax (different)