This challenge has been generated by my current grief for the loss of my beautiful wife, Merry on April 23rd, 1998. This has been the most painful part of my life. Friends, local and cyber, have reached out with tremendous amounts of love that have helped both Jessica and I very much.

Each day since Merry passed I have spent time doing what I am asking you to consider using this week to help you with your creativity no matter how intense, serious, or painful your challenges might be.

The technique was taught to Merry and I by Sid Shore, long time creativity consultant, scientist and engineer from Sharon, Connecticut in one of his workshops at CPSI in 1979.
He titled it "What's Good About It?".

During his workshop he led us through a serious of planned exercises to practice his concept "What's Good About It?" Basically what you do is concentrate on a challenge or problem and begin to deliberately write what could be good about it, no matter how bad or painful it was. Towards the end of the 90 minute session he had us work on a very personal and painful challenge and encouraged us to find as many good things in or about it as possible and to help each other to do the same as resources.

So think of a serious (even painful) challenge. Sit down or use a flip chart or chalk board and write a dozen things that are, might be, could possibly be "good about it?"