Part 1 - 5 mins
This week we visit with Cheryl, who walks us through a very special and personal Gainstorm, to share the knowledge of the extra steps she took to beat cancer.
Please note: If this is your first time here, our Week 1 video sessions include detailed explanations of how the Gainstorming model works. If you haven't seen the Week 1 videos, please watch them first as Weeks 2-7 focus only on the Gainstorming session content.

Part 1 - 8 mins
This week we visit with Coco, an extraordinarily talented photographer who is contemplating the next chapter in her life…
(Sorry, didn't wear glasses for this ... beware the typo's!)
Please note: If this is your first time here, our Week 1 video sessions include detailed explanations of how the Gainstorming model works. If you haven't seen the Week 1 videos, please watch them first as Weeks 2-6 focus only on the Gainstorming session content.

Part 1 - 7 mins
“A Teen Imagines A Possible Future."
This week we visit with Sophie, an 18-year-old who is pondering her future. Here’s an example of how you can use Gainstorming to open up a focused conversation through creating a vision of a potential future. 
To demonstrate how Gainstorming can be performed anywhere - we held this session at a café - unfortunately eating and Gainstorming typo's, and errors... We apologize for this!  
Please note: If this is your first time here, our Week 1 video sessions include detailed explanations of how the Gainstorming model works. If you haven't seen the Week 1 videos, please watch them first as Weeks 2-5 focus only on the Gainstorming session content.

Part 1 - 7 mins
This week we ask Russ Elliott, who has spent many years studying the art of developing great relationships, to Gainstorm with us: 
“How To Have A Better Relationship."
Please note: If this is your first time here, our Week 1 video sessions include detailed explanations of how the Gainstorming model works. If you haven't seen the Week 1 videos, please watch them first as Weeks 2-4 focus only on the Gainstorming session content.

Part 1 - 5 mins
This week’s session with Theresa Fincher delves into “How To Make More Time For Myself In A Demanding Work Environment."
Please note: If this is your first time here, our Week 1 video sessions include detailed explanations of how the Gainstorming model works. If you haven't seen the Week 1 videos, please watch them first as Weeks 2 and 3 focus only on the Gainstorming session content.

This week we experiment with using the Gainstorming model to discover ideas for getting into great shape. 

You might be surprised by what we find!

We're looking forward to spending the next 52 weeks together with you, where every week we'll Gainstorm a new problem or idea.

Why are we even doing a 52 week Creative Thinking Challenge? Well there's two reasons - one's for me, and one's for you!

I'd love for you to find your Creative Vision/Imagination muscles! Every week we spend together we're going to be 'pushing' this, and you'll have tasks to do that will exercise these muscles.

For me ... 52 weeks is a big challenge because I've never done this before! I've never made a video each week - let alone for 52 weeks in a row. But I'm excited to do it, and this is the reason why I 'cheated' on our first Gainstorm 'draw a subject out of the hat,' and hand-picked "How To Not Lose Motivation." 

WHAT KIND OF THINKER ARE YOU?

Do you ever think about how you think? Do you ever think consciously about how you approach solving problems, and coming up with new ideas?

I like to think of this process as a maze. Imagine that any time you need to think about something, you're entering a maze - and getting to the center of the maze is where you'll find your answer.

Here's what a lot of people tend to do (and I was definitely guilty of this before I learned the process of Gainstorming). 

They know they need to solve the problem, so they start heading into the maze, they get a little closer to the center, and then they start thinking more about the problem instead of heading toward their solution (the center). So they just stay in a perpetual not getting into the center pattern, never discovering the real solution to their problem. 

Then another person might be pretty good at getting quickly towards the center of the maze, but something happens - they get closer to their goal and they give up, or they give up thinking about it. Which results in sliding back out of the maze away from the goal.

In my personal life in the past, I wouldn't even enter the maze. I'd just lie awake at night, running the problem around and around in my head. And do the same thing the next night, and the next...

When you follow the process of Gainstorming, you cut a straight line through the maze to solving your problem, or coming up with your new idea. 

The reason this happens (and it seems a little crazy this is even possible, but I've been part of over 500 Gainstorm sessions now - and it works), is that Gainstorming causes you focus on the FUTURE first - not on the problem. 

When you focus on the future FIRST and you can see and describe what that future looks like - everything changes. This is what you are about to learn how to do. :)

Every week, starting Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, we're going to pull an everyday personal problem or business problem out of a hat, and we're going to Gainstorm it!

You're going to see how Gainstorming works, how to do it, and then be able to apply it to any problems you have, solutions you need, or creative ideas that you need to have.

What kind of thinker are you? Do you naturally use Creative Vision to innovate for yourself, to motivate yourself, to bring things together in a new way?

The first problem we've pulled out of the hat is "How To Not Lose Motivation."

Please join me for our first Creative Thinking Challenge this Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, right here at gainstorming.com  #creativethinkingchallenge