Sometimes it takes me a good two hours to get to sleep.

My brain is often on worker bee mode when I go to bed, and it has a tendency to formulate ideas when I’m trying to get my gratuitous 5 hours of shut eye.

Oh my gosh, it used to drive me insane!

I would wake up and look at the notebook on the side of my bed. There would be 5-10 different business ideas, book ideas, marketing ideas.

After getting all excited about one these new ideas, I’d immediately get sidetracked from a project I was working on.

Next thing you know, it has taken me 5 months to complete a project that should’ve been done in 30 days. It’s a gift and a curse.

And if you too are an idea person, you’ll completely identify with what I’ve just said.

Today I still have the same creative overdrive when it comes to generating ideas. But I’ve learned to handle the influx a little differently. I’ve discovered how to use my talent for good, while staying on track.

The One Thing You MUST Do To Keep Idea Overload From Slowing You Down

Okay I have some good news, and some bad news.

The bad news is that you’ve got to develop some internal discipline for what I’m about to tell you to work.

People are always looking for some ‘magic’ pill to solve all their worries. Wave a wand, and your troubles are gone. In reality, you have to develop some sort of boundries within your own mind to stay on track. That’s first and foremost.

Next, I want you to go to your local grocery store, dollar store, discount store, or whatever, and pick up a 70-page notebook.

Now whenever you get an idea, I want you to stop and write it down in your notebook.

It doesn’t have to be in any particular order. I often just give a page a title, and then write down the idea.

For example, I have a Infoproduct Ideas page, and a Blog Topics page, etc.

I also create mindmaps to further flesh out an idea.

When I’m finished writing the idea down, I close the notebook, and go back to whatever I was doing.

I only read through the notebook for a few reasons:

  1. I’m mentally blocked and need some inspiration.
  2. I’m finishing up a project, and seeking some new ideas for the next one.
  3. I’m looking for ideas for my consulting clients.

The awesome thing about keeping these notebooks is that over the course of a year or two, you will have compiled hundreds or even thousands of ideas.

I just found a notebook that I did back in 2004, and it was a goldmine of ideas. I was amazed at all the stuff I can still put into play today. Much of what you’ll read in this blog comes the brain sparks culled from that forgotten manuscript.

Write it down… forget about it… then come back, and grow rich,

Alexis Dawes

P.S. – I’ve actually developed an entire no-nonsense system to help me stay on track. This is just one of my tactics.

Keep reading this blog to learn how I’ve used this system to maintain a “consistent” 6-figure infopublishing business.

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