What to do with a new idea...
idea n. a thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action.
When you start owning the fact that you are a creator, you are going to get all kinds of new “thoughts or suggestions.”
Here are five tips for when you get a new idea:
Thank your brain for it! Say, “Cool! There’s a new idea! Thanks for coming!”
Write it down, or make a voice memo, or SOMETHING! Capture it SOMEHOW! In the NOW! New ideas are fleeting. They go as quickly as they come!
Don’t get critical of it too soon! John Cleese said this, “New and ‘woolly’ ideas shouldn’t be attacked by your logical brain until they’ve had time to grow, to become clearer and sturdier. New ideas are rather like small creatures. They’re easily strangled.”
Honor your new idea by taking some small action toward it right away! Take that “thought or suggestion” and make some little part of its “possibility” a reality. Idea to action! (This will not be the last time you hear me say that! For example: this morning I got an idea for a new piano piece. Instead of just making a voice memo, I opened up a blank score on my computer and wrote just a few bars. Action makes the idea stick.
Realize that not every idea has to be GREAT, but all ideas have value. Ideas beget ideas. The small idea you just got, might be the precursor to the big idea you’ll get later.
That’s it for now! 90 seconds on the dot!
I hope you get some awesome ideas today!
ALWAYS LOVE!
Andrea
