WEBVTT - How to capture good ideas

0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:06.400
<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:13.560
<v Speaker 1>Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:16.840
<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is about how to capture and make the

0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:20.799
<v Speaker 1>most of new ideas. A listener named Claire wrote in

0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:23.640
<v Speaker 1>wondering about how to do just that, lots of your

0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:28.280
<v Speaker 1>advice mentions giving your mind some space through exercise, walks,

0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:32.720
<v Speaker 1>downtime for great ideas to appear. She writes, this works

0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:35.440
<v Speaker 1>really well for me, but then I struggle with how

0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.000
<v Speaker 1>to capture those ideas and make sure I make the

0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:41.199
<v Speaker 1>time to bring them to life after. Sometimes, when I'm

0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.360
<v Speaker 1>on a run, so many ideas come to me that

0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:45.760
<v Speaker 1>I end up standing still every few minutes to log

0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:48.880
<v Speaker 1>them into my phone. I think this is a great question.

0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:52.120
<v Speaker 1>Many times great ideas come to us when we step

0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:55.400
<v Speaker 1>out of our normal workspaces, but of course, when we're

0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.280
<v Speaker 1>away from our desks, were slightly less prepared to capture

0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.880
<v Speaker 1>great ideas. Writing things down as tricky if you're in

0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:06.080
<v Speaker 1>the shower or driving. I actually think Claire's solution of

0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:09.679
<v Speaker 1>logging ideas into her phone is great. I know that

0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:12.919
<v Speaker 1>sometimes it's fun to run without a phone to feel untethered,

0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.360
<v Speaker 1>but I tend to run with mine, partly so that

0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.440
<v Speaker 1>if I do get a good idea, I can just

0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.320
<v Speaker 1>send an email to myself. If Claire is getting good

0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:23.280
<v Speaker 1>ideas every half mile or so, she should just count

0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:26.120
<v Speaker 1>her blessings. That's as good a reason to stop and

0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:29.520
<v Speaker 1>take a break as anything. Now back to my method,

0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.920
<v Speaker 1>Why an email to myself? Well, I know I'll check

0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.200
<v Speaker 1>my inbox at some point when I am at my

0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:38.480
<v Speaker 1>desk and able to process ideas. I know that I

0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.040
<v Speaker 1>will at least glance through my inbox to get to

0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:45.039
<v Speaker 1>current since that's somewhere i'm sure to look. This works

0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.880
<v Speaker 1>for me. Many other people have found the same thing.

0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:49.920
<v Speaker 1>But if you know you'll check your notes or some

0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:53.160
<v Speaker 1>other app that can work too. If you're driving, you

0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.040
<v Speaker 1>can use your voice assistant to send a text to yourself.

0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.000
<v Speaker 1>If you're in the shower, well maybe you've got your

0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.800
<v Speaker 1>phone nearby, or you can keep an old fashioned pen

0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.280
<v Speaker 1>and notebook somewhere in the bathroom and use that in

0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.720
<v Speaker 1>a pinch. Now, as for making the most of those ideas,

0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.360
<v Speaker 1>the upside of an email or text to yourself is

0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.280
<v Speaker 1>that you can then process this information when you process

0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.320
<v Speaker 1>all the other information that's coming in every other day

0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:18.560
<v Speaker 1>or so, I sit down with my calendar and my

0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:22.040
<v Speaker 1>planner and work through what's come in making decisions or

0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.480
<v Speaker 1>entering time specific commitments or items on my to do lists.

0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.560
<v Speaker 1>We've talked in past episodes about the fun of list making.

0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.560
<v Speaker 1>There are all kinds of great lists that can shelter

0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.840
<v Speaker 1>your new ideas. You can keep a to be read

0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.800
<v Speaker 1>list of books to track down. I keep a list

0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.600
<v Speaker 1>of potential before breakfast podcast ideas in a file. I

0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:46.000
<v Speaker 1>make seasonal fun lists. I make lists of presents that

0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:50.000
<v Speaker 1>people might like. I have a nagging tasks list. I

0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.560
<v Speaker 1>have a list of a hundred dreams, basically a bucket

0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:54.600
<v Speaker 1>list of anything I might want to try in life.

0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.200
<v Speaker 1>Devotees of David Allen are familiar with the idea of

0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:01.880
<v Speaker 1>a someday maybe list. That's anything you might want to

0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.120
<v Speaker 1>do but you're not committing to, or at least not

0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.760
<v Speaker 1>committing to a specific time. Perhaps your ideas fit in

0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:11.000
<v Speaker 1>with these lists or any other categories you create. The

0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:15.920
<v Speaker 1>point is to have lists somewhere and then get in

0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:19.400
<v Speaker 1>the habit of occasionally looking through these lists as you

0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:23.359
<v Speaker 1>set your weekly priorities. For example, while out on a run,

0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.280
<v Speaker 1>you might suddenly remember that Joe from work and Chris

0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.960
<v Speaker 1>from your softball team both went to Texas A and M.

0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:31.959
<v Speaker 1>This is the kind of thing you haven't recognized before

0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.480
<v Speaker 1>because it's nowhere near where you live, and so it's

0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.640
<v Speaker 1>not something you normally think of. They have both independently

0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.720
<v Speaker 1>mentioned being obsessed with the football team, So you send

0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.040
<v Speaker 1>yourself an email to connect the two of them. Then

0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.640
<v Speaker 1>you can do this during your next email processing time.

0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.440
<v Speaker 1>But to do it well, you can take it up

0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:53.240
<v Speaker 1>a notch and actually turn it into relationship priorities for

0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.320
<v Speaker 1>the week. If it's football season, you might look at

0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.680
<v Speaker 1>the calendar and suggest that Joe and Chris both join

0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.320
<v Speaker 1>you at a sports bar to see the Texas A

0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:06.080
<v Speaker 1>and M game to Saturdays from now. Now, your idea

0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:09.520
<v Speaker 1>has both connected people and given you a fun social occasion,

0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.320
<v Speaker 1>and all because you sent a note to yourself before

0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:15.440
<v Speaker 1>you forgot the idea, and then you processed it as

0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.560
<v Speaker 1>part of your regular habits. How do you capture and

0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.000
<v Speaker 1>make the most of your ideas? You can let me

0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:25.200
<v Speaker 1>know at Before Breakfast podcast at I heart media dot com.

0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:29.120
<v Speaker 1>In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and

0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:38.159
<v Speaker 1>here's to making the most of our time. Hey everybody,

0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.479
<v Speaker 1>I'd love to hear from you. You can send me

0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:44.200
<v Speaker 1>your tips, your questions, or anything else. Just connect with

0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:48.600
<v Speaker 1>me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at Before Breakfast pod.

0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:53.640
<v Speaker 1>That's B the number four, then Breakfast p o D.

0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:58.000
<v Speaker 1>You can also shoot me an email at Before Breakfast podcast.

0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:01.000
<v Speaker 1>At i heeart media dot com that Before Breakfast is

0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.800
<v Speaker 1>spelled out with all the letters. Thanks so much, I

0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:11.880
<v Speaker 1>look forward to staying in touch. Before Breakfast is a

0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.159
<v Speaker 1>production of I heart Radio. For more podcasts from I

0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:19.080
<v Speaker 1>heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.160
<v Speaker 1>or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. H