The whiteboard is the blank canvas of the business owner.

A gifted artist needs a blank canvas on which to paint. A gifted carver needs a block of stone. A gifted baker needs a kitchen with lots of empty counter space. A gifted writer needs a blank sheet of paper or a new blank document on their computer.

As such, a creative business owner or entrepreneur needs a whiteboard. If you want to stimulate your creative juices, buy one or more whiteboards and mount them on your walls. You will see, ideas will flow from you onto the boards naturally and easily. Every time you pass them or glance and them you will stimulate the creative part of your brain and your heart, and ideas will start to form inside you.

Take time to simply stare at the blank space. It acts to nurture and develop the ideas within. As you do this, the ideas will form and evolve, sometimes without your awareness. Then, all of a sudden, they will burst forth and you will cover the white boards with new ideas, business plans, marketing ideas, etc.

The next important step is to act on these brilliant inspired ideas. If you leave the boards filled for too long, it will prevent the new ideas from flowing. Make sure you occasionally clear parts of the boards so you have space for the new ideas to flow to.

The whiteboards work so much better than a blank sheet of paper or a computer screen. The reason is writing to yourself on a sheet of paper is small and student-like. Writing on the board for all to see is large, loud, and teacher-like. It’s as though you want to tell it to the whole world!

I actually have six separate whiteboards on the walls of my home office. No one who lives here or visits can resist the draw of an inspired thought or idea bursting forth onto the boards. It is awesome… we call it having a whiteboard party! And then we all stand back and gaze affectionately and proudly at the creations.