"Can-Do" Default to Kickstart Brainpower

Is "can do" your default when it comes to tackling a challenge that takes ingenuity, risk, and learning through mistakes? "Thinking "can do" as a default should be a no-brainer," Valeria Maltoni explains, as it relates to achieving A-Player status in social media. Her savvy tips work career-wise, too...

Paradoxically, to achieve A-player status is also a "brainer." You'll kickstart brainpower into high gear to accomplish what eludes many...

1. Keep a target in the forefront of your thoughts The more you focus on a goal, the more your brain picks up on that and brings insights to accomplish it... even while you "sleep on it."

2. Remember it's in your mind, it's not in the mind of others You're the one to follow through on ideas. Others won't do it for you. We learn through trial and error, especially when we make mistakes. "Results? Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results," Thomas Edison said concerning his quest to create the light bulb. "I know several thousand things that won't work." He had to keep at it when others scoffed.

3. Maintain a "can do" outlook When you think you "can do," you can deal with whatever comes your way. Remaining positive can be challenging in the face of cynics, naysayers and hitting a stone wall. But, you "can do."

4. Be situational in your approach Your brain leaps to the creativity of transferring a strategy from one context to another. Though solutions often elude you initially, you may experience moments of clarity when the answer to a vexing problem appears with a sudden insight as you see the connections fall into place.

An A-player perhaps needs even more of a "can do" default to kickstart brainpower to accomplish what others envy.

Ready to fire your brainpower?