Creative Daydreaming Or How We Create Ideas

When we are traveling or waiting somewhere our minds drift into daydream mode. This is when we mull over past events, our hopes, worries, obligations we need to fulfill and so on, the mind might be thought to be in freewheel mode. It is during this process that we often have our best ideas in fact we are unconsciously modeling many situations and every now and again we create a new association between existing two information nodes.

We are always juggling limited resources be they time, money, relationships or energy so we require a stream of ideas to allow us to exploit our resources in the most most efficient manner.


 Many people however spend an enormous amount of a time mulling over past failures or how unfair life is, if any good could come from this it would have done so already, we should therefore try and direct our daydreaming in useful directions. This is one of the chief benefits of the positive thinking that is encouraged by nearly every career and life mentor.

Nearly Caught an Idea at its Birth Today

I've been wearing my walking boots because of the Snow and Ice here in the UK. Anyway I was at the Swimming Pool undoing my laces and was marveling once again at how comfortable and light Boots are today, and then thought I should sell them on the principle that you should only promote things you are enthusiastic about. Then it occurred to me that I run a website called abingdonwalks.co.uk and that would be an excellent place to sell boots probably via Amazon.

I instantly realised tried to recall exactly when and how this idea popped into my head but it was already too late I just got a kind of blur. I've been trying to capture that instant for a while, but it seems elusive.

Creating Ideas Lens Nominated for an Award

My Creating More Ideas Squidoo Lens (mini-Website) is nominated for Best Potential Giant Squid Lens Award which will help publicize my crusade to think of ever more creative ideas. Please vote for it , search for "create more ideas"

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

Always Seeking Ideas for More Leverage

Leverage allows us to achieve greater efficiency. We have to constantly seek ways to get more payload from our efforts, more return on our investment. There is no value or merit in just slogging away. Time invested in seeking an easier way or more effective way to complete our tasks ahead of schedule is worth gold. We have to think recursively like Tom Sawyer who got everyone else to paint the fence. We mustn't think it dishonorable to find an easy way out, I mean if you copy an answer in an exam that's cheating but not in real life where all that is important is to get the job done. Once we have completed a task we should also try to find ways to reuse the result. So in my line I can write a post blog it with variations on different blogs, eventually creating an ezine-article, then a a Squidoo lens and eventually my first book .

So what ways can you think of to be more productive, to get the same results with less effort, can you delegate can you outsource, can you Google up a ready made solution?

Archimedes said "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world, we should always be seeking that lever and that fulcrum

Great Places to Get Ideas From

• Libraries : New Purchases Shelf


• Libraries : Just Returned Shelf


• Bookshop : Top-Ten Non-Fiction Books


• Amazon.com Best Sellers


• Google Trends What people are searching for


• Google Wonder Wheel , at the top of a Google Search Results Page there is a show options button, click it to see Google Wheel (visual) and Related Searches

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.