Great Ideas

They're all around you..

You're getting great ideas all of the time. Great ideas that no one else ever thought of. Great ideas that only you know how to make happen. Great ideas that can make you rich. Great ideas that can set you free from you current job - if you want that. Great ideas that can drastically change your life and the lives of the people you care most about.

There's one thing though. When they come to you, you gotta write them down or in some other concrete way acknowledge them. I say write them down because that's what works for me. I carry 4x6 cards in my purse to write down my ideas. I've also seen people carry little notebooks around to do this.

Here are 5 of the many ways you can capture your ideas:

1. Speak your ideas into the memo feature of your phone or palm pilot or whatever your communication gadget of choice. I use this a lot.

2. Call your answering service and leave your ideas on it.

3. Email your ideas to yourself from your work computer, lap top, palm pilot or cell phone

4. Write your ideas on one of those suction note pads that sticks on your car's windshield. Then tear off the page and put it into an "idea" file until you can work on it.

5. Write your ideas on your hand - crude but effective

6. If you're sleeping when an idea come to you, wake up an write it down. Some of your best ideas could come to you in dreams or while you're in that weird place between sleeping and awakening. My newest song "Peace Will Be", came to me in my sleep. It is one of the few times I've received a complete song at one time. What if I'd turned over and ignored it.

Do you get my drift here? You want to grab hold of your idea the moment it arrives. You can work on it later. But you gotta take it when it comes to you. You will not remember it later. And, someone else might get wind of it and follow thru. Then you'll be mad at yourself. And here's something great. The more you acknowledge your ideas, the more ideas you'll get.

The little whispers are always trying to give you the world's next great idea? Are you listening?

Copyright ©2006 Jan Spencer