When you need an idea, you can’t sit around and wait for it to show up.Good ideas don’t come when you want them to. Good ideas come when you are actively engaging with all sorts of ideas, good and bad.
When I am pressed and struggling to come up with something for my daily blog post, I write a list of ten ideas for blog posts. I completely take the pressure off of myself and allow good and bad ideas to get out of my mind and onto paper and 99% of the time there are one or two good ideas in that list of 10.
But it is almost never the first one. Usually, it takes letting out a few bad ideas before my mind makes the connections that I actually find exciting and engaging.
The next time you are struggling to come up with a good idea for something, give up on trying to find a good idea. Just start writing down all sorts of ideas. Turn on the idea tap and let all the bad ideas out. More often than not, you will come up with the idea that you were looking for.
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