Don The Idea Guy
Ideas that mean business... and MORE business!
  • Home
  • Brainstorming
  • Speaking
  • About DTIG
    • Interviews
  • Contact
    • Privacy Policy
    • Disclosures and Disclaimers
  • Get Free Ideas
playing with toys

Play With All The Toys

Don The Idea Guy May 21, 2020

When you were a kid you would play with all the toys. You’d get every single item out of the toybox and spread them across the living room or yard and mix ’em all together to create one giant game set.

G.I. Joe’s rode on the back of Hot Wheels cars like they were rocket-powered skateboards while using swords made from Erector Sets and flinging Lite-Brite pegs as missiles to hunt down ferocious giant pink teddy bears and prevent them from destroying a city of skyscrapers constructed of Easy Bake Ovens, Electric Race Car Tracks, and a Toss-Across board.

And the adventure didn’t stop when you inevitably broke one (or more) of your toys — you simply picked up the pieces and made them part of the game as well.

Every day you’re at work is the opportunity to play with all the toys as well.

They’re different kinds of toys, but you have the Microsoft Office Suite of games to play with. There are websites and blogs and podcasts and video tools to play with. And there are different departments with all sorts of fun toys to combine with your own to make the game bigger and better while you play together.

You might be thinking that playing with the kids who work on those other floors in your office might be against the rules, or that you don’t have permission to play with those audio tools to record podcast interviews with your clients or your co-workers.

But what if those perceived roadblocks and boundaries are things you can play with as well?

I say rules were made to be broken — and then you pick up those pieces of broken rules and you play with those as well.

Here’s a great video from a television show called Taskmaster to help illustrate my point.
Contestants were given a set of rules to follow in completing a challenge — to build the highest bridge possible on a tabletop using a limit set of tools (most of which were actually toys!). Watch the video and see if you can identify the lesson I’m trying to share.

Sometimes the “rules” are simply a place to begin.

Care to share?

  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
Quit Puffin’ Out Your Chest Can’t Win Them All

Related Posts

lion tapestry

Insight, Inspiration

The Ugly Back

Everyone goes to the museum to admire the pretty fronts of artistic tapestries, but the ugly backs face the wall and are rarely on display. My wife decided she wanted to host a big family Thanksgiving this year. While we were in the process of cleaning up the house and putting our (my) clutter. Hapy […]

Care to share?

  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
awaken broadcast campaign

Insight, Inspiration

My Three Words for 2022

Several years ago I started choosing an annual trio of words to help me stay on track with my goals, focus my actions, and guide my decision making. I copied the practice from Chris Brogan and you can click on that link in his name to visit Chris’ page to read about how he chooses […]

Care to share?

  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
letting hot ideas flow

Ideas, Insight

Want hot ideas? Let the tap run.

I’ve written in the past about how I come up with some many good ideas (spoiler alert: it’s because I also come up with so many bad ideas). I’ve also shared how important it is to throw away the first dozen or so ideas you come up with because they’re not going to be especially […]

Care to share?

  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)


What kinds of ideas are you looking for?

Better Questions = Better Ideas

BUY 100-Whats of Creativity

Cool Stuff For You

free podcast websites

best appointment booking tool

Recent Articles

  • The Ugly Back
  • My Three Words for 2022
  • Want hot ideas? Let the tap run.
  • Back from the grave!
  • The End.

Categories

  • Featured
  • Ideas
  • Innovation
  • Insight
  • Inspiration
  • Rant
  • ThinkLinks
  • Uncategorized

Archives

Tags

action advertising attitude book brainstorming business creativity curiosity customer customer loyalty customers DTIG gitomer goals Ideas Innovation Insight Inspiration kickstart leadership links loyalty marketing media money motivation networking persuasion podcast productivity products projects Rant revenue sales selling service social media speaking success trends web work writing zombies

Idea Guy Projects

  • Big Yellow Sticky
  • Find Your Fries
  • SalesToys
  • Stop Selling At Me!
  • Super Action League

Let’s Connect

Another unusually creative project from Don The Idea Guy
Ā© 2020 - All rights reserved. Do not use content without permission.