Brian Tracy says sit alone in silence for 30 to 60 minutes with no distractions. After 25 to 30 minutes, your mind clears and a solution appears. Someone used this method and earned over a million dollars.
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go into the silence. Go and sit down quietly by yourself for 30 to 60 minutes. 30 to 60 minutes. Most people in our society have never sat quietly for 30 to 60 minutes in their entire lives. Yet I will tell you this: this method works 100% of the time. That any problem that you have, any difficulty, any challenge, any goal that you want to accomplish, if you'll go into the silence and sit quietly and then listen to the still small voice within. This is the key. You will find that at a certain point, probably at about 25 to 30 minutes, your mind will go completely clear, and then a flow of ideas will start to flow into your mind. You'll feel energy welling up inside you, and at a precise moment, as you sit there in complete silence— no cigarettes, no coffee, no music, nothing, just complete silence— at a particular moment, Your mind will go clear and wham! Exactly the answer you need will come at exactly the right time. And if you will get up and go and carry out that answer, it will turn out to be exactly perfect.
And that concept, I watched that video, I don't even know how long ago, and it's definitely helped me make way more than a million bucks.