Conscious Savings

A habit is a choice made normal.

What do you do when you have a flash of insight, something that seems brilliant and possibly game changing for yourself or portions of the world at large.

Below is a quick outline of my process for taking an idea and turning it into a project. The following process is designed to be completed in chunks, based on how much time you have available. While I’ve found that insights for writing an article or a similar creative function work best when I jump on them right away, often the time from insight to deployment can be weeks or months if the idea grows large enough. Also the ideas below are not rigid rules of any type, and aren’t going to help you beyond setting up organizational scaffolding.

• Start out dreaming up the biggest idea you can, any extra function, feature, aspect, piece, anything and everything related. Jot it down, andif your mind mapping all the better since you can see how it fits together.
• Find the core, what does everything else come out from? This might have changed from your initial flash of insight as you expanded the idea.
• Review each idea that branches from the core and ask how does this add? Would something be missing if it wasn’t there?
• Prioritize, how important is the idea in full. How important is each branch. Measure importance however is easiest for you, 1-X for each branch, and how many other ideas at large you have under active development.
• Turn each piece into action steps which you could perform to transform your idea into reality. Call XYZ about … write email to…, research how to X…
• Observe how your internal state has shifted towards greater or lesser clarity, and repeat and modify as desired.