I have heard many people say that they don’t think they are creative. Rubbish! You are creative. You have creativity inside of you for something. Most of us live our lives without ever using the creative ability that we have been given. Here’s a little test you can take to see what your creativity lies in.
Keeping an ideas book
Ideas are like gold to those that capture them. Consider this quote from eclectic film director David Lynch:
“The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you’re dead.” courtesy of: Think Exist.
What do you have ideas about? I didn’t realise that I had so many ideas about various things until I started writing them down. As I began to study the ideas, I noticed how I could use them in my work. Some of them helped me to understand issues I was having with other people and so on. You may really like gardening. There will be moments throughout the day when your ideas about gardening will come to you. Do yourself a favour and write down that idea. You will forget it if you don’t!
What to do with your ideas once you write them down
Make a commitment to follow them through. Even if you can’t do it right now make plans to do it soon. The ideas you follow through on you probably wouldn’t have if you hadn’t of written them down! I know, it sounds stupid but keeping an ideas book helped me to gain an edge in my life and I know if you do it in yours it will help you too.
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I’ve always used indexed notebooks and index cards, buy since my wife gave me an Apple iPod touch for my birthday, I’ve mostly been using the web to share those ideas with the world at large. It’s too early to say whether that’s going to change the world, but my iPod seems to be changing my life…
Wow your wife knows how to buy good presents! I am not sure they are out here in Australia yet.
I like to keep my notes jotted in Google Notebook because I can access it from any of my computers. There’s also a FireFox plug-in that allows you to right-click and “note this” into the Google Notebook. Another good idea, if you don’t need to worry about multiple computers, is Microsoft Office OneNote. Very easy to use and can capture screenshots, entire pages, their URLS and everything else quite effortlessly.
I haven’t toyed around with Google notebook yet but that plugin sounds magic. Thanks for that. I think I will have to upgrade my office suite (or just word) I don’t have that feature in it.