How to Own Your Inspiration Reaction

Next time you think of something you should do, do it. Do it within 24 hours. Better yet, do it within 12 hours or 6 hours. It could be for your personal life, work life, or something in between, but acting on these creative impulses in a timely manner will improve your Inspiration Reaction as well as your productivity.

What’s your Inspiration Reaction?

It’s how you actively manage the daily inspiring thoughts and ideas you dream up. These ideas often come at inconvenient times. That’s understandable. Your life is fast paced. You don’t always have time to stop and contemplate. But, if you let your inspiration lie by the wayside, every minute you wait is time you lose. Your inspiration slowly gets dimmer and eventually dies.

If your Inspiration Reaction is good, you’ll capture this creative energy before it gives in to complacency and procrastination. If your Inspiration Reaction is poor, you let great ideas die by letting them sit too long, and forgetting great ideas can lead to implementing bad ones.

Prioritize, of course.

Put the most important tasks on top of the to-do list, improving your reaction time, and put anything else in your Spark File. However, whatever you do, don’t simply record ideas without diving deeper. That leads to long lists and little…