Innovating For Success (Part 3)

In 1987, I stood before the Berlin Wall. My heart broke because it was a post-World War symbol of shame.

It was a wall that divided a beautiful country and a prison against freedom.

Like most people, it never occurred to me that the wall would come. It did – in a series of events one year later – and became another shocking event in my lifetime.

On reflection, there has always been a ‘Berlin Wall’ in my mind. An accepted fact that I never thought could be challenged.

As a result, I have imprisoned myself to new ideas, breakthroughs and applications. It has limited my success and prevented me from soaring in life.

An innovative life begins with the right mindset.

I need to ensure that my mindset is never set on anything. I have to commit myself to a systematic practice and a lifestyle of innovations.

To do so, there must be a healthy paranoia that I may become irrelevant and redundant.

I can be replaced by a system, a robot, a competitor, and many other things. They may render me unworthy or worst, useless.

I need to reinvent myself to continue to value-add to my business and life.

I need to be opened to new ideas and be willing to experiment with new concepts. I must have a daring and adventurous spirit to create radical solutions.

There is a saying, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’

I say, ‘If it ain’t broke, transform it.’

In other words, don’t just explore the possibilities of ‘breaking it.’ I must look at how to change it so as to make it even better.

I want to have what I call a ‘Beginner’s Worldview.’

Every assumption must be questioned.

Every family heirloom can be given away (ouch!) to create better legacies.

Every mental model, dogma and precedent must be challenged.

I must be willing to creatively ‘destroy’ myself. I must be committed to restart my life all over again.

I believe my return from innovation can become even more profitable than my return on financial investments.

Ultimately, I want to be like a map and not just a Geographic Positioning System (GPS).

I want to show the way and not be a blind follower in life.

Go4It!

I hope this message will find a place in your heart.

By the way, I have also recorded other reflections.

Please go to ‘Notes’ found below my profile picture.

Visit my Transformation blog at http://hsrpatrickliew.wordpress.com

Visit my Inspiration blog at http://liewinspiration.wordpress.com

Please read them and continue to teach me.

Life is FUNtastic!

 

Question: How can we have a transformational mindset?