Losing Your Ideas? Stop Asking This Question

I've been an entrepreneur for 10 years and I've published my writing online for about 25.

There has always been more I want to do.

But for a long, long time my progress was blocked by my inability to find all of my ideas.

I could not keep track of my big ideas. I had too many, and they felt scattered. I felt totally frustrated by the way they slipped through the cracks. Do you ever have that feeling?

To combat this, I'd write them down obsessively, and piles of notebooks began lining every surface. I tried post its, index cards, spreadsheets, task managers but it was all missing something. It didn't fix the problem I never seemed to "get there" to a place where I was living up to my true potential.

A common occurrence was picking up an old notebook from 3 years before, reading old ideas I'd written and forgotten and now was just remembering all over again...and thinking,

I HAD SUCH A GOOD IDEA, why did I do nothing with it?

Seeing this gold I'd forgotten so completely, I had to wonder:

Why do I forget my good ideas?

Am I hiding things from myself?

Is this self sabotage?

With time I realized these were totally unhelpful questions, that were all basically some sneaky form of "What is wrong with me?"

Forget it, it does not matter. If you relate to this, stop going there.

I found a better question to ask. Since then I have found organizational peace and it has completely changed my life.

Not enough people realize how much this matters!!!

I certainly had no idea how much organizing my ideas was going to change everything, which is why I've become so passionate about spreading the word.

Organization benefits my life and mental health by:

• Remembering my real priorities: not losing track of the clarity I have gained so I can finally break old patterns.
• Sense of peace: everything is ok, it’s written down somewhere and I know I’ll find it
• Better boundaries: I stand my ground more because I know what’s really important to me.
• More confidence: I value my ideas and I take myself seriously. I feel empowered. I am learning and growing in all the right ways.

Plus it benefits my writing and business by:

• Saving time: no more taking an hour to find a document or file.
• More energy: I use less energy to remember or find things so I have more to work with on the task at hand.
• Writing articles, emails and blogs easily: I am never starting from scratch because I can instantly build on all my great ideas from the past.
• The satisfaction of synthesizing: building on my ideas into something better makes me feel like a genius.
• Better quality work: feeling proud, sharing it with more people and reusing or referencing my work over time.

Check out my latest video if you'd like to become more organized and find all of your ideas.

I share the question I began asking myself that helped me go from scattered to organized. It has made a huge difference in turning my life around.

Need some help?

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Have a great one!

Sofia Wren