Monday, July 21, 2025

Write it down

How many ideas have quickly come to you and then forever departed just as quickly? When a useful, creative thought strikes you, write it down.

If you can’t write it down at the moment, find another way to preserve it in your memory until you have the chance to record it. Talk about it to yourself or someone else, or mentally associate it with something highly meaningful to you.

Most of the thousands of thoughts that pass through your awareness each day are rather routine and not worth preserving. Yet in amongst those thoughts are some really good ones that could deliver great benefits.

Develop for yourself a systematic way of capturing and then reviewing those good thoughts. There’s a reason they come to you, and it’s smart to hang on to them.

Don’t needlessly frustrate yourself by assuming you’ll remember and then promptly forgetting. Instead, discipline yourself to lock in those useful thoughts so you’ll be able to later expand on them.

Everything anyone ever accomplished started with a thought. Take good care of all the opportunities for accomplishment that come in the thoughts you think, by writing them down.

— Ralph Marston

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