Get out in the fresh air. Even if you're living in the middle of a polluted city, chances are the air outside is more healthy than inside your home or office. Blow the cobwebs off - mind and body. Get the air circulating in your lungs and the bright ideas circulating in your head. This is completely different from the normal mental noise from which we all suffer. If you go out for a walk to clear your head, you know what? Your head will clear!

I often suggest to people that they need to give themselves time and space to figure out what they need to figure out. That could be anything - the solution to a problem, an important business, career or personal decision or simply to seek inspiration. This last one is particularly intriguing.

A few years ago, one of my very best friends - a Berliner living in Valencia in Spain - asked me to translate a quote from Pablo Picasso which went something along the following lines: I never know when inspiration will strike but I do my best to ensure that my mind is always ready.

Since Picasso's day, neuroscience has opened a window on our own minds for us. We now know that we can tune our conscious awareness into the here and now. And a clear and consciously aware mind, in the here and now, will provide us with insights or inspiration that our ordinary thinking minds could never imagine. But you and I need to cultivate that innate ability we all have to listen to our own inner self; not our inner voices - they come from the little bugger who never did anything useful in his life - the guy that tells me "no you can't", my own worst enemy!

Instead, I'm talking about what we might colloquially call my gut instinct - the boss here calls it her feminine intuition! The realm of grand ideas, the stuff of "now why didn't I think of that before?" - the part of my subcortical brain that neuroscience tells me effortlessly makes the right decisions and choice for me... if only I'd let it.

Today's Quick Tip talks about giving yourself a little space and time in the fresh air. Perhaps, however, from time to time, it would be a good idea to give yourself lots and lots of that lovely mind-settling time.

• Purposefully focus - it doesn't come naturally, we're actually "wired" to not focus
• Set goals in a way that energizes your subconscious into focused effortless action
• Make your very best decisions and solve problems with ease - your brain can do this effortlessly
• Banish stress - we're ordinarily "wired" to be stressed