Capture those ideas before you lose them
August 28, 2008 by ShannonCherry
Filed under Business Plans
If you’re like me, you come up with a ton of ideas while doing other things.
But because I am doing other things, I used to forget them.
So just a few years ago, I created a special place to put these ideas down quickly. It’s called my ’schemes and dreams’ notebook. And I have it everywhere I go.
Once a week, I book myself an hour on my schedule to review it and decide what ideas are still relevant and create a plan for each of them.
How about you? What do you use to help you keep your ideas from escaping?
I do something similar. I carry a small notebook in my purse for when I get ideas and I’m out and about. When I get an idea and I’m already at my computer, however, I just start a blog post with maybe a tentative title and a sentence on what my idea was about. Helps keep the writer’s block away.
I do something so similar! I keep a 5-subject spiral ring notebook beside my computer and everything I think of goes in there along with links of interest I find, websites, etc. I call mine “My Great Big Book of Everything” and would be totally lost without it. I even start writing, yes handwriting, blog posts and articles there. It’s a great “idea catcher!”
I’m glad to know I’m not alone in this endeavor!
Happy Netweaving,
Carol Deckert
Netweaving/Networking Coach
RUNLancaster.com
http://twitter.com/caroldeckert