ideas. ideas. ideas.

I have a feeling there are a lot of women out there just like me.  Things run around in your head endlessly. 

Ideas come in my head like crazy.  I get them hitting me sometimes 3 in one minute.  I get them hitting me at the least opportune times...I have ideas when I'm standing in the line at the grocery store, driving in the car, walking in the mornings.  All of these times I usually don't have anything to write on.  If I do find something to write it on, it gets lost and there goes my next big idea that...you never know...it could have been something that would have changed the world.

I got tired of having little notes scratched to myself on the back of receipts, on small pieces of napkin left on the floor of the van with a big mud mark on it from one of my kids, bits of paper that will probably end up with someone's gum in it, and other odd pieces of whatever that are the most convienient things to write a random thought on...never to be seen again.

I decided I need to contain my ideas and better even than that I needed to be able to access them easily.  I'm not a computer person when it comes to my ideas.  I don't whip open my laptop, power up,and create a document, etc.  I don't use my cell phone to do every thing known to man on it, and I don't carry a personal recorder (although, I've been really tempted lately to buy one and walk around with it talking to myself.)

For now, I have a pretty book.  This book came to me because my thoughtful and handsome husband bought a book he thought I would like at my favorite store, Anthropologie.  He bought it and just had it on hand in case of a moment that it may come in handy for a gift.  One night, I was telling him I just needed to find a beautiful book to start keeping all of my ideas in.  And right then and there, he said he had the perfect thing for me.  It was like he read my mind before I thought it.  (For some reason this is playing in my mind like a movie or sitcom from the 1950s...)

Now, I have this pretty inspiration book.  I've divided it into a bunch of different categories and given each category about 10-15 pages each.  Some of my categories are:  blog, business, kids, love affair, kits, and inspiration.  When I have an idea I put it into the pages of the category that it would go under.  That way later when I'm working on that particular project, it's all right there where I can use it, instead of spread all over tarnation with no way for me to access it.

I take my inspiration book everywhere and keep it close at hand so that I can write in it whenever ideas start going crazy in my head.

It works great except for when I go walking and when I'm in the shower.   I try to remember them all and write them down as soon as I get done walking or out out of the shower...sometimes that's not fast enough.  Any good ideas for capturing ideas while you're in the shower?  I want to hear them!

Keeping all of my ideas in one place and in a category has made it so much easier to actually do them!

inspired. LIFE.