How to make ideas last longer?

 





What a wonderful idea? How many times have we felt this? There are times when a brilliant idea strikes you like a golden ray of sun in a dark overcast sky.

What happens to the idea after it is put in your mind? Do you write it? Do you implement it?

I have some ways to capitalize on this synaptic click that happened in the brain. 

1. When you get an idea, text it to yourself. In the worst case you can laugh at it yourself later.

2. Bounce off the idea with a co worker or team mate , friend and see if it flies.

3. Implement the idea and make a fishbone diagram to find out what are the variables in this scenario. Another tangent is to go research on the topic some more to get a better feel of the idea.

Make a mental picture of the idea. A picture is worth a thousand words as they say, draw it out. Make the ideas as vivid as possible to make it fly, roll with you. Speak to yourself about succeeding in this idea over and over again. Positive affirmations last for a long time in the mind. Wipe off all negative thoughts about this idea, work on it!!Try to visualize your plan and that will go a long way! Imagine you breathing in the fresh smell of coffee on the day your plan succeeds. 

It is important to create a close circle of friends with whom you can bounce of any ideas. Implementing the idea is the hardest part. You can have a million wonderful ideas, how many of them actually see the light of day? How many of them fade away the next morning? Make sure you visualize this mental picture daily, without a miss. Keep working on it. Rope in an accomplice, it takes two to tango.  Hope in the best! That will make you succeed!

Try over and over again before you give up! Keep pulling others into your thought process as you move forward. It takes lot of people to make things work! 

Never underestimate your own worth. Everybody has the capacity to defeat their monsters. Believe in the dream and live it!







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