GAP Yourself!

Many people sit on their hands because they "don't know what to write/talk about". They claim that they don't have any ideas for a blog post or a video.

I would like to challenge those who have allowed themselves to sit and stare as others pass them by to consider this...

You don't have an IDEA problem...you have a RECORDING problem!

Sorting through some things in my office cabinets, I came across one of my old spiral notebooks... filled with thoughts, notions, concepts and ideas. I write...record my thoughts...A LOT! It seems I’m not alone in this habit, either.

It doesn’t take too much digging to discover that most great people have kept a journal of one sort or another, but that’s not really what this is about. I’m talking about capturing your thoughts. Those fleeting, great ideas that you just KNOW you’re going to remember…until you try to remember them!

John Belushi, for instance, is a great example of what it means to harness our thoughts and concepts. One of the greatest comedians of our time, he recognized the importance of capturing those nuggets before they were gone. When ideas came, he wrote them down...on ANYTHING! He was known for bringing some of his best ideas to a formal meeting scrawled on scraps of paper, matchbooks and paper napkins. The genius in him knew that he could not let an idea get away, or it would be gone forever.

This practice has been advocated…and demonstrated…by such notables as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln and more recently, Jim Rohn, who maintained that your legacy is made up of your library, your photographs, and your JOURNALS.

I’ve heard it said that ideas are like slippery fish...if you don’t catch them, they get away. Understand that when an idea comes, you must capture it somehow. So...

GAP YOURSELF!!

Grab a pen...a pencil...some writing utensil...write it down! Get a journal, a spiral notebook, a legal pad, SOMETHING to capture the thoughts that are being given to YOU. Carry a small, pocket sized notepad or voice recorder and capture those thoughts before they’re gone for good. (It's been said that writing it down adds thinking to the thought, too)

Ideas are the beginning point of EVERYTHING. Nothing exists that was not first an idea. Success and failure both are born in ideas. No innovation or progress of any kind would have been possible without there first being an IDEA…a notion…a concept.

And remember…

"God does not give money...He gives concepts."
Joe Schroeder