Capture It Any Way You Can

I am having quite the morning…

This is the way it goes for me sometimes. It feels like a combination of spiritual thresholding, ADD rapidly firing on all cylinders, and being stuck between several different worlds at once.

As I’m hunched over my laptop, trying to write one blog post…one, single blog post, I realize I may be constructed several related, but different blog posts at once.

Experience tells me to get this stuff out of my head…any way I can. Write it down, type it out, record voice memos…

Typically when I write anything, I’m composing, editing, and revising in my head before I ever put the words down on paper or in text.

This morning I tried something different.

I began writing my original blog post idea down in the Drafts app on my iPhone.

I quickly realized that I had so many ideas coming at once that I needed to take notes on them or they would be lost to me.

I began listing words or phrases, even complete thoughts in the body of the text I was typing into Drafts.

I knew that when I turned on my MacBook, that the post idea/notes would pop up in my macOS version of Drafts.

Then the stream of consciousness really started flowing…think “It’s The End of the World As We Know It” level.

Multiple drafts (on Drafts) spanning multiple topics or ideas, half composed blog posts, thoughts connecting to other thoughts.

Right now, I think I may have developed ideas for no less than five separate blog posts…ideas that I have to get out of my head; that I have to share with the world.

I will have to put this in my daily log of my bullet journal, and possibly a task list bullet as well.

My point, dear readers, is that sometimes these ideas are fleeting.

Pay attention to these things that may seem like stray thoughts.

Sometimes they need to have voice given to them.

Sometimes others need to hear what your stray thoughts have to say.

You must capture these thoughts however you can…write them down in an electronic system you trust, put them on the back of a receipt, or a cocktail napkin.

It may be amazingly important!

Capture it any way you can.