I have this terrible tendency to flit from one idea to the next. Ask me what I’m up to today, and I’ll tell you something I’m really excited about, but then ask me again in two weeks, and odds are I’ll give you a different answer. Ask me again in a few months and I might tell you about the first idea I mentioned to you again.
In Bruce Lee terms, it’s like practicing 10,000 kicks once. It’s paralysis.
To combat this, I’m practicing developing a routine in which I funnel all new ideas onto a Trello list that I’ll make space to look at with intention at the end of each month. This will be a time when I’ll be setting intentions for the following month, so it will be a good time to look at this.
This allows me to feel good about letting the ideas go in the immediate moment, knowing that if they’re true winners they’ll prove themselves out when compared to the many others at the end of the month.
More importantly, I’ll keep the shininess of those ideas from interfering with whatever I’m working on in the present moment, which incidentally was probably an idea that was really shiny to me sometime in the past. If I can clear enough space to follow through on those ideas, execute them well, and build on them, then I’m onto something.
