resource investigation

outline

Resources are all around us although we often act as though there is a shortage. Resource investigation starts with an attitude. The central difference between someone with an optimistic, can-do attitude and someone with a pessimistic, can't-do attitude is that the former will be constantly seeking resources to help achieve while the latter will be constantly collecting problems to justify non-achievement. Poverty-thinking is infectious: in the western world we are living with far more resources than virtually anyone in recorded history and complaining more about shortage.

Individuals who are able to use creativity, curiosity, assertiveness and energy can find resource where none was apparent. These people usually go on to achieve greater things than others who are more easily discouraged.

Resource investigation encompasses more than just money and inanimate objects. Unexpected resources are to be found within oneself as well as in others. Luck and coincidence are resources which turn up frequently when individuals are open to them. Abundance of resource does not guarantee success but success often attends those who are able to find resources not apparent to others.

aim

To use resource investigation as a way to create a competitive edge.

objectives

To understand how thinking often determines results.
To see how many people stop themselves doing anything with negative, poverty-thinking.
To understand that, in our world, there is not really a shortage of anything.
To identify situations which require you to use resource investigation and understand what to do in these situations.
To be able to use lateral thinking to improve your resource investigation.

outcomes

Better able to gather and analyse information and plan and deploy resources.
Understand how to identify and gather resources.
Able to use lateral thinking to find resources and alternatives.
Constantly conscious of the possibility of different ways of achieving what you are aiming for.