Mapping the Journey to My Next Brilliant Idea

I was desperate to think of an idea for a new Squidoo lens, then I hit upon the idea of discovering how I'd thought of my existing lens. I was astonished to find that I didn't know , I'd had ideas my unconsciously. I decided I wanted to try and capture the moment an idea appeared , determined what had seeded the idea and finally learn how to create more and better ideas, in short to become an ideas factory! I created this blog to map my journey to the brilliant idea. But my actual ideas website is here at Creating More Brilliant Ideas and now it is up for an award Best Potential Giant Squid please vote for it here

Many Ideas Go Unnoticed

Just to note ideas I've had recently which went under the radar by that I mean that I created them with out being aware of the process.

1) CV: I researched for things that I need on my CV to bring it up to date, they are Zend Frameworks, Object Orientated PHP and Drupal a PHP/MySQL CMS. (Have installed all the necessary software and built a Drupal test rig)

2) Amazon books: I've got a 1000 or so second books for sale at Amazon, decided to lower the prices of all my books to see what kind of short term sales I could achieve if I wanted to make Amazon a major income source. (will report on this)

3) Am going to turn more of photo collections into Squidoo Lens

So you can see that none of the above ideas are particularly extraordinary even so the first two could have a dramatic affect on my income and the third a little, but I do need to ACT on them! You too have similar ideas and you also need to ensure that you act on them.