Your Best Idea’s Come During Vacations

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I’ve been in the Caribbean the entire week and have noticed that when I’m not at home, confined to my room, my ideas are more creative.  When you trap yourself in a single location, you really lose the ideas that you could gather by watching, talking and just being around other people.  When it comes to vacation, your mind will pick up on new idea’s that you have never thought of.  Aside from people, scenery can also help stimulate something brand new.  Sometimes you just need to let your batteries charge and mine are just about set for when I get back.

When you deal with the same people and situations all the time, you are really doing a diservice to your personal brand.  By attending new events, meeting new people and connecting on new levels, you are able to foster innovative thinking.  Innovative thinking creates opportunities and money for you.  I don’t take too many vacations each year, but this one came at the perfect time, when I’m about to release issue 3 of Personal Branding Magazine, writing a book and of course more blog entries.  I have to think of new ideas so I can leverage them for all the media/content I’m creating.

I’ve probably filled up 6 sheets of paper with thoughts over this past week, which is going to be very helpful for when I get home on Saturday.  We just left Labadee Haiti and I’m about to go up for cocktails and to dinner.  They have a few crazy games tonight and then a party near the pool, which I’m looking forward to.

Ask the expert series

I wanted to start a new series of posts called “ask the expert”, where you ask questions in the comments or through my email and I find the expert that can best answer your question and then post on it.  I think this will be very helpful to everyone, as we build our personal brands in 2008.

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Dan Schawbel

Dan Schawbel is the Managing Partner of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm. He is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success (St. Martin’s Press) and the #1 international bestselling book, Me 2.0: 4 Steps to Building Your Future (Kaplan Publishing), which combined have been translated into 15 languages.

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