Ten ridiculous solutions

(Some legit good ideas might also show up in the process)

Today, write about a thing that is currently frustrating in your life and then write a list of ten ideas of the most ridiculous and/or seemingly impossible solutions to that frustration.

For example, for the sake of explanation, let’s say your frustration is a bad haircut that you cannot possibly grow out soon enough. The list of ridiculous sentences could include things like, “I will hang upside down each day in case that makes my hair grow faster when the blood rushes to my head” followed by, “I will begin wearing wild pink wigs and become a new person; in fact, maybe I will change my name and move to a new town and completely start over thanks to this terrible haircut.”

It’s a fun exercise, to be sure, but it’s also one that will help you turn off your inner perfectionist or inner critic and let ideas just flow. In capturing “ridiculous” ideas, you might just free up your brain enough to get a really amazing idea out of it in the process.