Thought For The Day

"Ideas are elusive, slippery things.
Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside,
so you can stab them during the night before they get away."
— Earl Nightingale

This is absolutely true. There are times (even waking hours) when I find myself busy doing something routinary (like filing or putting things away) when I get one of those flash bulb moments. You know the feeling ... here you are with basically nothing on your mind, not really concentrating on anything at all because you're performing a mindless task, and there it is! Like a flash, you get a thought. It's brilliant, you think! Should I act on it now? Should I write it down? And you tell yourself ... nah! it's so good, how could I ever forget it? And, for a while you relish in this brilliant idea ... you play with it and develop it. Then, just as quickly, someone enters the room and poof! that idea is gone. At first you're in shock! How could that be, you ask yourself? It was fantastic! But, search search search, and it won't come back ... well, not immediately anyway.

That's the wonder of these thoughts. They come out of nowhere and go wherever. And, I DO man wherever. These ideas, I call them opportunities. Someone once said that an idea is a dime a dozen. I believe that's true. The universe sends these things out ... and depending on what our inclinations are, I believe they find someone attuned to those thoughts / ideas. But, the proof is in the pudding ... the ideas work for the people who not only nurture them, but ACT on them. So, act we must ... but, since I'm filing or folding shirts, let me write it down first!