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SuperMind Saturday – Alcohol.

SuperMind Saturday – Alcohol.

Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.

This week – Alcohol.

Alcohol has been part of human lives for millenia. It’s almost as old as we are. It’s our relaxant, our social supporter, and our reward all in one. But, it’s not all play. Alcohol has a darker side and many lives have been ruined by it. This week SuperMind Saturday takes a look at the substance.

  1. The vast majority of us like a drink. It quells our stress and boosts our feel good levels. But, the amount we drink to achieve this has been going up year upon year with more people than ever drinking more than ever. Why do we need alcohol so much as our go-to solution to life and will that ever change?
  2. Alcohol used to be consigned to pubs at certain times of the day and for special occasions like weddings and Christmas. Then along came supermarkets open all day and longer opening times for bars. Alcohol is now on tap permanently. Because it’s now available all the time, have we got too used to alcohol as a norm and what is that creating?
  3. Alcohol acts as a short term answer. Feeling low or unhappy or any despondency about life we often choose to reach for a good drink to ease our mood even though it will never solve the reason we needed it in the first place. Why do we choose to mask our issues like this so we never deal with them?
  4. Alcohol will probably never be banned. Or unlikely to be seriously limited in what we buy or consume. Let’s say it was though. Let’s say it was phased out. What would us people of planet Earth use to feel the same way (something legal and not dangerous)? Could we find a new source of calming pleasure that’s less addicitve?
  5. International footballer, George Best, famously said, ‘In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol – it was the worst 20 minutes of my life’. He died in his 50’s from the effects of alcohol. Should we just accept that this is what happens to some people, that’s it’s the price to pay for overindulging in such fun? After all it’s a major pastime for most of us.

Ok SuperMinds there you have it. I could ask many more questions about alcohol. It’s THAT popular as a topic.

And that wraps up another SuperMind Saturday. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep thinking about these through the week to open up more of your mind and its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!

See you next time for more super thinking.

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Why Partnering Up With Ideas Can Work Wonders – Part 2.

Why Partnering Up With Ideas Can Work Wonders – Part 2.

Partnering is what we do best.

If it’s not a life partner it’s a best friend or group of pals. Even our work place is a style of partnering in a job scenario to create results. It’s what we are made for, and it often brings out the best in us.

I have already posted one set of true stories that perfectly prove this last month (see that post here). In this second segment I’ll prove it even further with some of the biggest names in business in the world and how jointly they crafted major success.

Everyone has heard of Nike. The multi-billion dollar sports brand. It’s one of the top five success stories over the last four decades. But less people today have heard of Harris Tweed. The company was once an iconic Scottish fashion mainstay. Everyone from country folk to Royalty wore their jackets and clothing, all crafted on looms on the isle of Harris in the Scottish Islands.

But, times moved on. Fashion preferences changed. People favoured softer fabrics and sexy must-have brands on the up. The traditional tweed seemed dated, a historical throwback confined to times gone by. The market shrank, jobs were lost, and the economic future of the industry looked about to disappear for good..

But, in 2001, along came Nike. Looking for a fresher version of their Terminator trainer, they thought Harris Tweed could help promote the footwear in a specialised way and create a buzz. They ordered 10,000 yards of the cloth. Soon anyone who could weave on the Outer Hebrides islands was hard at work.

The orders flew off the shelves and saved Harris Tweed. Today their mill employs over 70 people and supports over 100 weavers. And they haven’t stopped there. This year Nike and Harris are combining once more for a limited edition Dunk Low trainers.

Such is the power of partnership and collaboration. For hip and cool with historical and elegant.

Top Marks together.

It’s not just one-off associations that form an amazing alliance.

Some have been lucratively in existence for many years.

When a Belarusian immigrant arrived in the North of England in the 1880’s he spoke hardly any English and had little money. He started up a small stall in Leeds market selling small homeware items under the slogan, ‘Don’t ask the price, it’s a penny’. The phrase caught on and soon he was doing well. Meeting a cashier from his wholesale suppliers they joined forces – one the stock purchaser and promoter, the other the credit and financial controller.

The partnership soon opened full Penny Bazaar stores where customers were free to browse which was not the normal custom.

The stores grew and expanded to 12 stores and 24 market stalls in only a few years and they were renamed under their surnames….

Marks and Spencer.

Today they can still be found in every high street in the UK plus 434 stores internationally across the globe. From one penniless newcomer who joined with an everyday local to develop an idea, today the business is worth £7.13billion. Yes…BILLION!!

Now do you believe in the power of partnership?

Penniless power.

You don’t need mass capital. Ideas are free.

They often span out of people with no funds or empty pockets who have to find a way to progress their fledgling concept idea or business. They also lead to joining forces with another person in the same position or with a similar vision. Needs must as they say.

Often it’s when we are stuck and struggling that our best ideas evolve. They are also the perfect moments to co-join with a partner to share skills, contacts, and add twice the manpower to pushing from a bad position to a brilliant one.

So when you have your next awesome idea that you hope will save the day, look also for a companion who can share the load and the road ahead with you. Partner-ships are ones that help us sail into new waters. And they often ensure that the tide turns in our favour.

Ideas are free, partnerships are golden.

If you are wondering what to do next, joining with a partner could be what works wonders for both of you.

Reference – Bbc.co.uk – Nike’s fling with Harris Tweed.

news.stv.tv – Nike and Harris Tweed unite.

Financial Times – www.ft.com – First Person: Donald John Mackay

corporate.marksandspencer.com – Our History.

archive.marksandspencer.com – Timelines – The M&S Story.

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Three Simple Steps to Jump Start Super Thinking.

Three Simple Steps to Jump Start Super Thinking.

Superthinking is something anyone can develop. Anyone at all.

Hearing the term Superthinking though makes us believe it’s some specialised ability set out for the luckily born brilliant few. The type of thinking available only to top scientists, mathematicians like Einstein, or those born with some genetic advantage that boosts their brain power.

That’s far from the truth.

In fact, you can start Superthinking TODAY in important key, but easily achievable steps.

So, get ready to superthink by following these three mind boosters.

Step 1 – Cut out the sad sources.

Our mind is fed by two sources of belief and thinking.

The first is from our past, often our distant childhood, creating inherited hang ups and insecurities. They added imprints and influences that still run round our mentality today. We, however, are often aware that our lack of drive to achieve came from Mum’s advice not to risk too much. Or our view we are not smart enough from how we were a late developer at school and others got better marks than we did. We know why we are the way we are in relation to them.

The second is a silent damager to our psyche. Bad sources of information we access on a daily basis. These infiltrate and secretly infect our outlook on life and the world. Rolling news with their awful narratives and images. Social media with its fake presentation of who is up to what and why. Mind numbing TV series of dark thrillers, murder, violent crime, and everything with a heavier edge. They are NOT entertainment. They are like taking a mind poison day after day.

Step 1 – you have to cut out these sad sources that suck the air out of your hopes and possibilities.

Step 2 – Develop a super set.

You step up in step 2.

Nature abhors a vacuum. By removing one source of mental information, you have to replace it with another. You have to find a new fuel for your brain waves.

To do this you are going to create a new super set of thoughts.

This is simply developing a small range of higher belief thoughts and imagined results to match, that you commit to repeating day by day. Ones that can be accessed whether you are in the shower, taking a coffee break, in a traffic jam, or relaxing with a glass of wine after a long day at work or in family duties.

These must be clear, distinctive, and progressive formed of elevated thoughts. Typically they should revolve around personal aims or projects that matter to you. These are NOT affirmations that you say to convince (or con) you that you are going to have a marvellous out of the blue surprise. They represent a bigger future for yourself that represents everything you would love to be and get out of life.

A super set won’t be shallow – wanting just to be a millionaire or a mega influencer so you can feel good about yourself. They are pure personal. Mine would take the form of seeing lots of my popular selling books in the book stores. They would be accompanied by beliefs that I am an accomplished writer who creates unique, original work.

The set can end with individuality – I feel complete living life as this author. I am alive and confident that being myself is fulfilling. And I believe that’s all I ever have to be at all times as I only ever have to be myself. Dedicate some time to forming your own super set.

Step 2 – develop a super set of thinking that fills up your mind with good imagination and energy.

Step 3 – Keep doing the write thing.

How many times have you had a great idea and then forgotten it soon after?

Our minds get so heavy with everything we have to do and remember it gets lost as other required tasks take over. Many of our best notions come and go like this. What’s needed is to record them when they appear.

Any time something cool or amazing or inspiring as a concept, product, or service pops into your head, DON’T LOSE IT. Write it down. Always have a small notebook ready to lay down these out of the blue superthoughts. You don’t need to go into depth yet. Just a quick line with the idea. These can be sub divided into categories if you find you are having ideas on a frequent basis.

Those sub types can be divided by subject (product, business, self career move). They could be recorded under personal rating (such as 3 out of 3 for a option in an area that is a major interest to you, down to 1 out of 3 for a general possibility). Choose a couple for yourself.

Personalising is always the key. They are YOUR ideas from YOUR supermind designed for YOU. Always keep you as the lead soul in everything you mentally produce.

Then, every few weeks keep coming back and reading through them. One or two are going to constantly leap out at you. Even more dramatic is some will trigger your mind to light up major style. THESE are the ones to explore and start the process again. Write how they can evolve. What they or it would look like. Who it would help. What you will need and so on.

Step 3 – keep doing the write thing to get to the right stuff. The stuff of superthinking.

There you have it. The magic 1-2-3. The same three steps that led me to writing my book and creating this site. And what keeps me unfolding even more potential for the supermind thinking future brand. This effectively acts as your proof of life. Your mental proof of how it can all evolve. Because, you don’t need to be an official genius to start superthinking like the best.

You just need to jump in to these three steps to opening up your supermind today.

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SuperMind Saturday – Judgement.

SuperMind Saturday – Judgement.

Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.

This week – Judgement.

In a world filled with social media we have been given a voice. And many want to express that voice with their opinion of everything. That view has become increasingly critical. It’s become judgemental. Judgemental by people of all ages and backgrounds. SuperMind Saturday dives in to ask what can be done.

  1. Quote by famous actress Kate Winslet, who said, ‘It’s very easy to be judgemental until you know someone’s truth’. How true this is. Why then do we NOT want to find out another person’s truth but prefer to judge instead?
  2. As a race humanity has progressively fallen into judgemental behaviour. This is less human. It’s unkind and uncaring. Why have we fell to such a level?
  3. The enhanced level of judgement in the modern era is connected to the current mentality. Forming speed need, quick wants, fast demands etc means the mind responds accordingly. It decides in an instant. What has lead to this ‘superfast’ reaction in our mentality and where is it taking us?
  4. BIG POINT – Judgement is typified often in bigotry, abuse, racism, warped opinions. These are more triggered by visual feeds – online, social media, rolling news. Constant imagery sharing footage designed to show one angle, one story, one point. And they hit home. Truth is our children are being corrupted by this and no-one is clearly doing anything about it. Lots of talk but so far, after years and years, no action at all.
  5. I want to ask a question of us all to finish. Courts used to judge crime and wrongdoings. Now we individually judge everything and everyone ourselves. Judge for anything no matter how small. Judge just because we don’t like it or them. Are we happy being these type of people? Are we achieving anything good for the world and each other acting this way? Are we proud of ourselves???

There we have it for another SuperMind Saturday. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep thinking about these through the week to open up more of your mind and its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!

See you next time for more super thinking.

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How Simple Ideas Can be Super Successful.

How Simple Ideas Can be Super Successful.

Ideas are free. We all have them.

Most ideas we have are basic. They are not massive world shifters or life changers for everyone in humanity. They are everyday and simple. But, it’s these very same ideas that can be the most successful and useful that has ever been seen. And ones that are so obvious that it’s amazing they haven’t been spotted and used before!

Swan Vestas were the iconic match company in the British Isles. Founded in 1883 the company was a stalwart of high street shops. The public from all backgrounds used their matches for everything from boiling a kettle for tea to lighting candles on a birthday cake.

But their chief fame was that they were the go-to brand for pipe and cigarette users, giving them the moniker of ‘the smoker’s match’. So much so that estimates calculate the number of matches ever used to be in the billions.

It was a hyper successful company and highly profitable. Creating greater revenue became difficult because most people already used them for every type of daily activity.

But, as legend has it, one pipe smoker employee saw otherwise.

A simple strike.

One day in the 1970’s this nameless pipe enjoying fellow turned up at Bryant and May’s (the owner and manufacturer) stating he could save the company millions with one simple idea. As the company had researched every avenue before to achieve this, they seriously doubted his claim. He persisted and they agreed to pay him £1m if he could, indeed, match his statement.

Swan Vesta boxes had two strips of glass paper on either side of the box that matches were struck across to ignite them. He noted generally people favoured one side to the other (most likely to being either left or right handed). He provided a number of boxes he had collected that showed this to be true.

Bryant and May had double the cost in providing a striking zone that was effectively rarely used. His idea was to have only one on one side, halving that cost instantly.

They did further checks. The pipe genius was right. His keen eye and simple suggestion proved to be a winner. Swan Vesta matches began being produced in one edge only boxes. The public barely noticed and few complaints were received. Bryant and May made millions, and our simple genius walked away with a million of it.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it!!

Scoot to success.

Dominic McVey was 15 when hit started making it simple….and big!

When misspelling on an internet search he discovered collapsible metal scooters. They were cool, simply cool, and he wanted one. In fact he believed other teens would too. Unable to afford one he cut a deal with the American manufacturers to buy five (through clever fundraising – disco events, trading on the stock markets with his Dad’s credit card etc) and get one free.

He sold those five (including his) in days. Then next week he sold ten more. He knew he was onto something. This portable, lightweight, fun transport was the perfect toy/transport in one. With further bravado he won the European distribution rights and two years later his sales topped 11 million units! Even the Queen called him a pioneer in entrepreneurism.

Today he’s worth over £7 million. A millionaire from a few pieces of metal and a lightweight frame.

Don’t think simple is vital? Just take a look at You Tube and see how many people view videos on how to make an omelette, wire a plug, teach a dog to sit or wallpaper a room that has unusual angles.

So used have we become to using technology to solve complexities and do advanced things, we’ve stopped using simple as the tool for making life work.

How simple can you be?

Some of the greatest ideas ever have been simple.

Simple because they make it easy for us to live our lives well or efficiently or enjoyably.

The three point seatbelt, sliding doors, the solar light bulb, and of course one of my all time favourites, The Post-It note, to mention but a few. They simplify, streamline, and work.

So, what’s your simple?

Your simple need that you find an answer for could be the one EVERYONE wants the answer for. Or, like the metal scooter, knows it’s something they would love.

If you have an idea for a product or service (who ever thought dog walking for other people would take off!!), don’t dismiss it because it seems too basic. In this mega busy, fast paced 21st Century, there are more and more things that would support our living. Simple things.

Keep it simple and you can be super successful.

References – aestheticons.wordpress.com – Swan Vestas Matches.

https://inspireip.com – A simple idea that made millions.

https://uk.finance.yahoo – Just how did Dominic McVey make his money?

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