Driving down the idea super-highway and hitting a mental barricade is a common occurrence. The pain, worry and mental trauma can be quite intense. Especially when deadlines are looming and finishing the job seems to be an impossibility. This can apply to design work, white-papers, presentations, script writing or any other creative task you may be tackling.

The solution? Kill your best idea. That's right, kill it. Whipe out your favorite part of the design, your favorite lyric, favorite point or whatever it is. Just throw it in the trash.

Why? The problem could be that your trying to hang the rest of your creativity on your great idea. Nothing is living up. This one idea is quite possibly blinding you to the potential of the the surrounding content or design. Killing the 'great idea' will force you to rethink your current position and quite possibly allow you to create a better, broader idea.