Make Your Ideas A Reality In 2008
Posted on December 31, 2007 - Filed Under Random
Everybody makes resolutions, and I think that it’s great. I know a lot of people laud the thought of making resolutions because they view the chances of sticking to them as slim. However, I think that listing resolutions for a new year is an important exercise. It forces you to think about things that you want to change about your life and the steps that are required to start the process.
A key “resolution” that has relevance to being an Idea Drunk is how to make your ideas a reality in 2008. I’m sure that in the past year, your head has been swarming with ideas. The key is the movement from a loose thought that only exists in your head to an idea that has life in the real world. How do you do it? You write it down.
Pretty simple. Write down your top three, five or ten ideas in a place that you see everyday. Just The fact that they are out there, existing outside of your mind, gives them a chance to be part of your life in 2008. I’ll give you an example.
My Bathroom Mirror
At the beginning of 2007, I wrote down a couple of goals that I wanted to accomplish that year. They ranged from several aspects of my life: work, Ultimate, business, fun. On this list, you can see that there are six goals. I accomplished four out of six. One of them, I didn’t even try for (to make $10,000 in online poker) and the other one didn’t work out because of timing (the Philippines Project).
The thing is, that throughout the year, I gradually knocked some of these things off of the list. I didn’t work from top to bottom, or from most important to least important. It was just that every morning when I was brushing my teeth, I saw this list. If I could do something that day that could help me achieve one of these goals, cool. If I couldn’t or was too lazy, whatever. The point is that these ideas existed in the real world. They couldn’t be ignored or forgotten over the course of the year because they were written down.
So, if you want some of your ideas to come to life in 2008, all that is required is a dry-erase marker and a roommate that doesn’t clean the mirror. Have a Happy New Year!
- Christian
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