“A blank page, a canvas, so many possibilities.”
And so begins Stephen Sondheim’s brilliant musical about the life of pointillist painter Georges Seraut.
Why, given, a blank page do we choke and even forget what we wanted to express.
How often have you wished for the time to run with an idea, develop a new insight in the course of the workday only to forget it when the time comes that you could act on these wishes? So many ideas, so little time?
The new economy is nothing but idea-laden, ever-changing and evolving. The possibilities for us are nearly limitless and the means of expressing those possibilities are as well. Too much choice=paralysis.
But to break free! Hold onto the idea; the insight. That’s the key. Our dilemma is when we want to develop the idea/insight immediately. Delay the development until later. Capture it, though (crudely if necessary: on a napkin, the back of a handout, on your cell phone). And, systematically, break it out when that rare free moment arises. Then develop it.
I have learned to carry a small pocket size notebook and a hand held digital recorder with me as if I am a journalist. If you’re a blogger, teacher, learner and leader or any kind, who isn’t a journalist of sorts? All your life are data. And all your ideas are potentially worth millions.
The blank canvas comes alive when there’s color to choose from. Capture the data of your life..especially those insights and ideas that seem so pressing. These are your colors when you have time to paint them. So, learn to take snapshots. Analyze, develop and delete later.
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