What To Do When Ideas Strike You At Inopportune Times

Not to sound crass or to tarnish this blogs reputation (what reputation??) with toilet humour but my light bulb starting flashing on this topic while I attempted productive pooping and I got thinking about the best way to capture ideas at inopportune times. Ideas can strike at any time and quite often you won't be ready for them. I've lost count of the number of ideas that have been lost into the abyss that is my mind because it wasn't convenient for me to get them down. When I did remember then, it wasn't quite the same idea as it was when I first brainstormed it. If you've been caught out by inopportune light bulb moments, I have a few ideas that might help.

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Brevity, Brevity, Brevity

For brevity I suppose I could have entitled this post, "Brevity" but I wanted to remind myself, and you, to be succinct at all times. As someone who likes to talk to a lot of people all the time, brevity is difficult for me. There is so much to talk about that I have to blurt it all out in verbal diarrhea fashion. But with more and more people going minimalist and rocking information diets, now more than ever is the time to just say what you mean.

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The Law of The Jungle AKA How to Take Less Crap

If you have a boss, customers, clients or anybody else that is paying you for a service that you are providing: then you have to take crap. Shit, as they say, travels downhill. Bosses are the worst type of crap givers. They usually delegate menial tasks that they can't be bothered to do themselves. And guess what? When you complete that task, they'll probably take credit for it too. Ever wonder how that guy or girl who seems to be ridiculously, incredibly and stupendously terrible at their job - yet they earn double the amount you do? Chances are they got there by passing more and more crap down to minions like you. Clients are just as bad as bosses though. "I need this by 5pm.", "How long is it going to take?", "Why can't you sort it out for me now?", "If you don't get me a better deal, I'll go elsewhere." This is the law of the jungle. Much crap will be taken, and many faces will be palmed (if only in your mind).

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Innovation: How to Stand Out in a Sea of Imitators

Attention. Everyone craves it. Especially online when the success or failure of your project depends on it. Even in the offline world you want the attention of other people. It could be anything from wanting respect from your boss for a job well done, to trying to catch the eye of the gorgeous girl at the bar. Our instinct is to do what others before us have done. You might try and pick up the hot girl by following the advice of the "pro" pickup artists. But if she's really that hot, chances are she gets hit on daily. Probably even hourly if she lives anywhere near me and I have no place better to be! If she's seen it and heard it all before, she won't care about what you have to say. Within seconds she will have decided that there is no way you're getting to spend time with her and nothing you can do will change that. And so it is online.

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Why Your Lack of Patience is Holding You Back

When you look at the personal development, lifestyle design, blogging, location independence and online business communities around the blogosphere, it all seems so easy. Everyone can articulate themselves eloquently (Naomi Dunford notwithstanding -

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