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Creating an Idea Journal
When I first heard Jim Rohn talk about the importance of keeping
an idea journal I was immediately captivated. So what is it you
ask?...
In its simplest form an idea journal is accomplished when we take
the time to commit our ideas to paper. It makes no difference
whether it's done with a notepad or a fancy journal. The effect
is the same. All your ideas need to be recorded.
Why is it important - Throughout the course of any given day
countless ideas come and go our way -- even though many of them
may appear to be unrealistic to us at the time. What happens is
often we simply discard them as a passing thought.
The problem with this is that what we previously believed to be
unachievable can change drastically as our minds are expanded
with each new success that comes our way.
What I mean is you may doubt yourself now, yet a few successes
later what you thought to be impossible now suddenly appears
quite achievable!
It's like the first time we tried to ride a bike. We thought we
would never pull it off. Yet after we mastered it our belief
system grew to the point that now we can't even comprehend the
idea that riding a bike would ever have been hard.
Hopefully now you can see the problem with dismissing your ideas.
As we grow in confidence, what we thought impossible before
suddenly appears to be quite achievable. However, we have lost
those ideas... UNLESS we kept an idea journal!
Simply put commit your ideas to paper. No matter how impossible
they may appear to you commit them to your idea journal. Your
very success might come from them in the not too distant future.
Imagine what must have run through Walt Disney's head when the
idea of a cartoon mouse popped up! Yet the idea (no matter how
silly) was committed to paper. The rest is history!
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