One big idea can change your life. Your idea could be a successful marketing method, a way to dramatically increase your productivity, a strategy for winning your current case, a transformative diet or exercise plan, or an investment idea that yields massive returns.
Big ideas are exciting. They motivate you to take action and often attract others who show up in your life at just the right time.
One big idea, YOUR big idea, is waiting for you to discover. How do you do that?
Yes, keep your ears and eyes open, read a lot, pay attention to what others are doing, and record lots of ideas, because having lots of ideas will eventually lead to your big idea.
In addition to “waiting and observing,” you can be more proactive about it.
Schedule a few minutes every day or several times each week for creating and collecting ideas.
I recently heard this idea from a consultant who has done this for decades and swears by it. He starts each day by writing 6 ideas. He says that by starting the day focused on generating ideas, “your mind is set on a more resourceful path, which fosters more creative thinking throughout the day.”
The more ideas you create, the better you get at creating ideas.
If you’re like me, you’re thinking this makes sense, but collecting 6 ideas every day sounds nearly impossible. And then you realize they don’t have to be great ideas or even good ones. They also don’t have to be your own ideas. You can steal them from books and articles and videos and blogs, like I did with this idea.
The key is to create the mindset and habit of regularly collecting ideas. Lots of them. Because quantity does lead to quality.
Try it. Tomorrow morning, you might go through my blog and write down 6 marketing or productivity ideas. Get your mind thinking about bringing in more clients or better clients, increasing your income or being more efficient with your time.
You may not use most of these ideas, or any of them, but you might use some. And who knows, one of those ideas might be your next big idea.
