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Episode 291: 3 More Steps to Becoming An Idea Detective with Barbara Winter Last week, you heard the first three of six steps to becoming an idea detective. Find your curiosity, invite ideas, and the third step, my favorite. Auditioning ideas is a productive way of framing our ideas and getting feedback on new profit centers. Today we discuss the other three steps. Barbara Winter believes in putting fun titles to everything. It is part of her living joyfully jobless formula. Her Winning Ways newsletter is the longest self-employment publication of its kind. Long-time readers keep the issues as a catalog of ideas to retrieve for inspiration and new insights along the self-bossing journey. She has a technique for building a prosperity consciousness worth hearing. Her small is beautiful philosophy comes through in generating ‘doable’ ideas like the $100 hour. You can change the number to any number. Why not start with an achievable number and build your way up? What dollar bill do you have in your purse or billfold? The next three steps we share deal with getting traction with your ideas and expanding revenue streams. Stay constantly curious, no matter what. Start with questions to ask yourself when you get up in the morning. Did you know 49M people do not want to go back to the office? They like working at a home office. Maybe it is your natural habitat and a way of fostering curiosity. Protect your ideas from the naysayers. Use discernment when it comes to who you share ideas with before auditioning them to a larger audience. Barbara has a strong view about this. The sixth step to becoming an idea detective is keeping your MPC’s alive and knowing when to ditch them. Creating Multiple Profit Centers or multiple streams of revenue bridge cashflow gaps and build a foundation of viability. It can be your response to a changing world and staying vital and vibrant. Tune in to our conversation so you ‘don’t waste time watering dead plants.’ DOWNLOAD Please do the Conscious Attentive Leadership Mentoring (C.A.L.M.) Activities, below. Podcast Sponsor Strategies to Grow Your Business Monthly Bookkeeping Payroll Services Back Office Strategies and Support Contact Us Now Episode Resources Barbara's 3 Other Podcast Conversations Employee Mindset vs. Entrepreneurial Mindset | WeMentor Mondays with Nancy PODCASTIt Is Time To Explore Multiple Profit Centers | WeMentor Mondays with Nancy PODCASTPortfolios of Inspiration | WeMentor Mondays with Nancy PODCAST Conscious Attentive Leadership Mentoring After listening, do the following three C.A.L.M. Activities: Take this risk or do this adventurous task: Implement the next three steps in becoming an idea detective. Start with formulating strategies to stay constantly curious, protecting your ideas from naysayers, and strategies to keep your Multiple Profit Centers (MPC) alive (and a strategy for when to pull the plug on a revenue stream). Then, implement the strategies and refine them as you go. Apply Self-Compassion: Choose one of your strategies and love it. Gush about how much you love the strategy. You are more likely to implement strategies you love. Welcome Appreciation: “I appreciate the creativity and brainstorming of ideas Barbara sprinkled into our conversations. I appreciate her attitude that small is beautiful. I appreciate a reminder not to water a dead plant. Those ideas that are not likely to succeed need to be discarded for new ideas to pop up. I appreciate Barbara. She is rocking our world with her enthusiasm, grace, and brainstorming.” Your Turn. Start with, “I appreciate what I heard from today’s Guest Mentor, Barbara Winter. I appreciate this week’s adventurous task because….”“Most of the problems in our lives and world are caused by relational dysfunction, a dysfunction in how we relate: as social groups, as individuals, to animals and the environment, and even to ourselves. Therefore,