If you’re a creative person, run your own business or work in a creative field for someone else, you may find yourself inundated with ideas. When you get a breakthrough idea, the natural impulse is to act on it right away. Over the long term, this fills your plate with a whole bunch of partially complete, barely started projects with little to no value.
Instead of running in a new direction every time an idea strikes, capture your idea on a napkin, scrap of paper, or whatever else is handy, and put it into an idea incubator. Your idea incubator can be a basket on your desk, a spare drawer, or a shoe box. The key is this: capture the idea and get back to your originally scheduled program. When you wrap up a project, go to your idea incubator, pick the best idea, and get started!
