For step one, you will need to either have a physical journal, an electronic file on a PC, a notepad on your smartphone, or a voice recorder that someone can transcribe. The goal is to have your Big Idea file in a form that you can have with you at all times, save and add to it easily, and never lose it. For me, this is my notepad and voice recorder on my cell phone.<\/p>\n
Step 2: Every time you have an idea, big or small, write it down<\/strong><\/p>\n Take a pen or pencil, type, or use my favorite smartphone tool of voice to text and make a habit of writing down each idea you have as it occurs to you (or as soon as you can). Do not allow input from those little voices in your head telling you whether it\u2019s good or bad. (I know you have them. We all do.) Don\u2019t worry about punctuation or whether it makes sense. Just let it flow out of you like a river. There is no magic length, either. It can be one sentence or it can be pages. Just make a commitment to get it out of your mind and visible to your eyes.<\/p>\n Here are a couple of short examples:<\/p>\n Personal Idea:\u00a0It would be really cool to do yoga twice a week.<\/p>\n Big Vision Idea:\u00a0I want to go into politics and be governor of Texas.<\/p>\n Step 3: Schedule a weekly review of your ideas<\/strong><\/p>\n Every week, take 15 minutes to review all the ideas you captured that week, and see which ones you want to move forward with. I love Sundays to complete this step, as we tend to be more creative and open on weekends.<\/p>\n When you first get started doing this, you will be amazed at how many good ideas you\u2019ve had that week. You will also see how many ideas you have not realized, because in the past you\u2019ve had no process to capture them.<\/p>\n Step 4: Pick the ideas you want to make happen. Refine your language.<\/strong><\/p>\n Pick the ideas you want to make happen and write them powerfully. By powerfully, you should look for limiting-type words in the ideas you want to pursue, and take them out of the idea. The phrases \u2018try to,\u2019 \u2018hope to,\u2019 and \u2018want to\u201d are psychological tricks that give us a get-out-of-jail-free card from making the idea happen. There is no trying, hoping, or wanting to make an idea happen. You work on it, or you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n So here are our idea examples from Step 3 in a more powerful revision:<\/p>\n Personal Idea:\u00a0I do yoga two times per week.<\/p>\n Big Vision Idea:\u00a0I run for political office by 2020.<\/p>\n Now read these ideas out loud. Do you see a shift in energy from the original idea? Now you have a foundation to move energy forward and turn dreams into reality.<\/p>\n You can see that our ideas hold life energy. Each idea draws us forward out of survival mentality and into a thriving state of being. But, if you don\u2019t anchor the idea, it will fade quickly. You must master the practice of anchoring your ideas. Pull them out of your head and put the ideas in writing. Then, you can move forward and make your ideas happen.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What would the world look like today if Alexander Flemming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/yourcorporateshrink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/commitmentquote.jpg\")
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