Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Reading for Empowering Strategies

I've been reading the book by Kim Kiyosaki called It's Rising Time! and love it!  One of the things that really hit me was her idea of using creativity in everything you do, if you want to be succesful, along with noting what the problem is you want to solve and then solving that problem becomes the good business opportunity.  She told some stories, one was about the mother who created the first sippy cup lid for her toddler.  It was simply a solve the problem scenario, but that lid has changed the way parents raise their children.  It is rare to find a home with little ones in America that do not also have sippy cups.  This was all because of one mother, with one problem, and one good solution.  This idea has inspired me to make a list of those things that are frustrating to me so that I can not just deal with them, but rather, find my own solutions.  For example i'm frustrated that it is so hard to have a nice relaxed walk with my husband now that we have 3 kids.  We have a bunch of things like strollers or wagons that fit 2 kids and are fun for walks but 3 just isn't working unless we carry one or make one walk.  If our oldest walks or rides her bike than, instead of rekindling like I want from the walk together, we end up focusing on her or the stroller to keep the kids in line, un-injured, and happy.  I want a 3-4 kid stroller or wagon but am not in a place to purchase one for $400 or more as that is far too overpriced in my mind.  We also need something that we can tote them in while riding bikes to the market once winter is over, which could be the same thing if I designed it right.  The words from this book I'm reading made me feel that I should just design a stroller thing instead of just being frustrated every time we want to walk as a family.  That idea is so EMPOWERING, its great!

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