What's this unconstrained thinking about?

What on earth is this unconstrained thinking? It’s a phrase designed to encapsulate the thought that too often we are constrained and limited in our thinking and therefore our ability to reach our goals and realise our dreams. We are conditioned by our environment, be it the world at large, our home, or a corporate or other organisational frameworks and we therefore tend to think within those boundaries.

Unconstrained thinking is the old cliché of thinking outside the box, and it allows us to realise ambitions in a way that is not otherwise possible. Think of it as positive thinking or having a “can do” attitude.

People are inherently resistant to change and will often throw up barriers immediately and come up with reasons why something can’t be done – sometimes these are as naïve as saying something can’t change because it’s always been done that way, so as Anthony Robbins puts it, if you always do what you’ve always done, you‘ll always get what you’ve always had. In other words change has to happen to progress, sometimes even to maintain the status quo, but change and betterment are essential parts of life.