This week’s Quick List* is a companion piece to our Quote of the Week: New Eyes for Discovery.

Sometimes we search high and low for new solutions, new colleagues, new products, new prospects, in new territories.  Seeking a new path that will bring us to a new, different or better ending.  When often, the best,  easiest or most valuable discovery can be made with ”new eyes”.

Here are 10 ways to see through “new eyes”.  The first one is a way to see through “new eyes” – literally.   The nine that follow – figuratively.  Same eyes.  New perspective.   And usually some fun along the way.  Good for morale.  Productivity too.

1. Ask for input from a colleague, a client, a vendor – or better yet – someone who knows nothing about the situation (the man from mars approach).
2. Pretend you are a client, or a vendor or a colleague.  How do you see things?  What do you want?  How would you fix it?
3. Pretend you are a kid again.   If you need help with this, go ride your bike or play on the swings.
4. Go outside.  Meet outside.  Breathe in the fresh air.
5. Go bowling.
6. STOP everything.  Now look for the obvious.  Look for natural paths.
7. Leaf through magazines or watch TV shows you never watch.
8. Brainstorm all the possible ways to see the situation differently.  Save ideas using a mindmap.  I recommend the mind mapping tools at:   Mind Meister.
9. Put sunglasses on and make fun of the situation.
10. Put these 10 questions to work.

Plus two bonus items!

11.  Stand on the desk like in Dead Poets Society.

12.  Keep your eyes fresh and your brain nimble with our Brainteaser of the Week.

* This weekly feature is for managers who don’t have time or don’t want to make time to read lengthy articles or even short paragraphs.  We call it a  Quick List.   AKA – 10 by 10 on Tuesday.   10 ( ideas or tips or questions or steps or ways to Get 2 Goal or Be a Better Manager, etc) by 10 (AM – EST) on Tuesdays.   Click here if you’d like to see all Quick Lists created to date.

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Related Articles:

• Quote of the Week:  New Eyes for Discovery
• 10 Questions for Finding “New Eyes”
• Brainteaser of the Week #37
• Movie of the Week:  Dead Poets Society