An Avalanche of Ideas - How To Manage The Mental Messages You Get Daily As An Entrepreneur.
You’re in your car on your way to an interesting gathering of business networkers. Your are imagining the conversation and what you want to say. As you practice your “script” in your mind, an idea pops into the script suddenly and you can’t write it down.
What can you do?
Develop a system that makes it effortless to keep up with ideas you feel have potential in your business. It’s important to allow ideas to surface and flow through you. As you know ideas can evaporate quickly.
There are several possibilities for getting these unexpected thoughts captured without pen, paper, or even computer.
1. You could call yourself and leave a message on your office phone, your cell phone, or your home phone. By doing this you will need to make sure you check your messages pretty quickly and get the ideas in writing or into your computer. This works until you have created a more efficient way to avoid the need to empty your idea messages as immediately as possible. If not captured they can be erased as well as blocking other messages when your voicemail may tend to fill up. Your idea messages can cause it to take more valuable time when trying to get to other saved messages also.
2. Grab a free conferencing line at Basement Ventures to record your idea. This service can be beneficial as well to use when speaking with colleagues and brilliant ideas service. By calling in to your conferencing line whenever talking business, the conversation is recorded so any unexpected brilliance can be retrieved later when neither of you remembers exactly how the concept was stated. How many times have you been in a mastermind conversation, said something profound, and when asked to repeat what you said, you have no idea what you said. Your state of mind was in a “zone” where you were not fully conscious. It’s an almost hypnotic state where your thoughts can soar unblocked by your conscious level critiques and inhibitions.
3. Send yourself a text message. Whether in your car at your computer, it is crucial to have a manageable system for capturing ideas that come up as you surf the internet or post to forums or social networking boards. Send the idea to your email with a subject line and body that is clearly a reminder about the idea.
4. As an added advantage use a phone service provider that offers a feature that transcribes your voicemail messages instantly. With this feature your idea is sent directly to your email. When using organizational features of your email software your ideas can simply be stored in an email ideas folder waiting for your consumption and application at your will. Some companies that provide this service are Vonage, GotVoice, SimulScribe and others. This technique is invaluable to you as an entrepreneur desiring to take your hands off the “work.” Famous real estate investor guru, Ron Legrand says, “The less I do the more I make.” Get your ideas in text instantly so your valuable time is not sidetracked by little “to do’s.”
5. Do your ideas and memos tend to be long and possibly wordy? If so, get a digital voice recorder. It can fit right into your pocket for constant, easy availability at any moment an idea, topic, or memo comes to mind. We recommend getting a recording device that works with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Dragon NaturallySpeaking transcribes your recordings into text. Dragon NaturallySpeaking will only transcribe one voice on a call and cannot transcribe other voices that do not access the phone line initially but call in after it has been opened.
6. And the simplest tool for capturing your ideas is to always have a small spiral note pad with you. Write down your ideas and as it fills up, file it and pull out a new one. Watch what happens when you begin to write your ideas and put them away. You just make wake up one morning with most of the ideas completed as you naturally draw toward any pathway that will lead to having your idea come to fruition.
7. My personal favorite is Jott.
Simplify your life.
As an entrepreneur you probably have an avalanche of ideas daily. Your mind is open and seeking new ideas. Your subconscious is awakened and listened to. As an employee you probably learned to block your ideas from rising up. You knew they would not be implemented or even acknowledged and desired in the usual J.O.B. type environment.
If you are new to being an entrepreneur and don’t have a flood of ideas yet, don’t worry. It’s only a matter of time before they surface. For now choose the technology that you feel most confident in and prepare to use it as your ideas emerge.
You couldn’t have been an entrepreneur in a better time in history than right now. Almost every obstacle, every strategy or technique, every task can be made more free and efficient by using technology that is virtually designed for the entrepreneur of today.
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