Do you need an idea for a book, a movie, a business, a joke? Then you came to the right place, because I am a talented and creative person who is blessed with numerous ideas daily. I am an idea man.
I would have to say that I was born this way, it is not necessarily a talent I developed but a gift bestowed upon me by a higher power. But like any gift not nurtured properly you can lose it.
Your mind is like a well, if you keep taking from the source without finding a new source to feed it, it will eventually dry up, and that is what happened to me for the last couple of years. My mind had one track, and one track only. Poker. I lived, breathed, and ate poker, nothing else mattered or existed in my opinion, and because of this one dimensional mindset I had developed, the ideas just stopped coming.
After I quit poker I was sitting at my computer and I quickly realized that I didn’t really know anything, and had no ideas on how I was going to move forward from there. I now know why I had no ideas, it was because I had shut myself off to the universe, the ether, my idea source.
I had to fix this and if you too are in the same situation then you are probably wondering, when the ideas stop coming, how do you change this? How do you reconnect with the source?
- Invite creativity back into your life, and fill your life with the joy that it is missing.
- Find a nice comfortable spot in the house like a recliner and remove any hint of negative clutter around it. Nothing blocks creativity like seeing a pile of unpaid utility bills.
- Change into something comfortable, something safe. Everyone has an old tattered t-shirt, or pair of sweat pants they would die a thousand deaths if any of their friends saw them wear it. I myself have a swear shirt that is almost ten years old, the cuffs are starting to separate from the sleeves. Wear something loose fitting, something that screams freedom. Ward Cleaver wore a suit at home, last time I checked Ward Cleaver didn’t pen any great novels.
- Grab a notepad and some pens, and sit down in that comfortable old recliner and turn on some music close your eyes and let your mind just wander.
- Music not doing it for you today? Read a book. Something uplifting, or something humorous. Put down the technical manuals, and true crime stories.
- Put yourself into a receiving mindset, don’t force it just let it happen, and the ideas will come.
This was meant to be solely a gratitoodz post, but as you can see I just opened my mind to the source and let it flow through me and all of a sudden I have an article.
The ideas are coming for me again, I have topics for posts to keep me going for days now and as I research those topics, more ideas come flooding in. I am thankful that once again the universe uses my brain as its very own set of 3×5 cards to jot down whatever random thought it comes up with.
