General overview of how to implement it

1. Decide who you’ll be working with first before you begin.  Solo or in a small group, it’s up to you!  According to science, each group should consist of no more than five persons.  Divide the group into teams if you require additional people to participate.
2. Fold a page twice horizontally and twice vertically to end up with in 9 equal-size boxes or digitally via a collaborative diagramming tool.
3. Put your problem definition or the core topic that you wish to examine in the center e.g. use a personal objective, such as “Be more active”.
4. There are eight more boxes to fill out: your petals. Write one solution suggestion in each of the eight remaining boxes.  You don’t have to elaborate.  Start throwing all of your thoughts into the eighth and final box.  One concept should be removed or two should be combined if you have more than 8.
   Tip: Remember not to throw away a great, original concept that you haven’t fully explored yet!  There are no poor ideas.  An original idea can come from anything, even if it seems irrelevant or far-fetched.
5. Now, eight (8) solutions to your problem currently exist.
6. These eight concepts will be used to create a new lotus flower set, which will be eight pages long.  For each petal, it’s time to dig deeper and come up with eight suggestions.
   This translates to 64 possible solutions to the original problem!
   Tip: You can mix or merge ideas if you have more than eight ideas for one flower (each grid represents a flower) or just add another level of squares (or petals).  But if there’s a particular place that’s provoking a lot of thought, don’t stop there.
   Consider going to the third or fourth level if you have a good idea.  Probably not for every idea, but it would be a shame to stop after you’ve hit that inventive stride!