An Idea Book: Very Important!

I would like to express the importance of carrying around an idea book/journal or a least a notepad to write down your ideas, especially if you are a creative person. But, even if you’re not, it’s still a brilliant idea (in my opinion of course). As, I’m sure, you’ve had a moment of clarity (an epiphany, if you will) or saw something somewhere and thought, “I should do that” or “That’s so cool”, but by the time you get to a pen and paper you’d forgotten what you were excited about or even the fact that you had an idea in the first place. An idea book would’ve been great right then, don’t you think?

I try to keep a writing book and/or notepad with me at all times; but I must admit that I sometimes forget to bring one with me depending on where I’m going and what I’m doing. But, I at least keep a pen on me, because, I know me, and I get ideas at the strangest moments. A pen at least enables me to jolt down my idea on whatever is handy, even if my hand is the only thing handy.

An idea book is great for 2 reasons, 1 you have a common place to put all your ideas, thoughts, notes, and/or facts down. So, you’ll always know where to look to review all your random ideals and notes. Which comes in handy (I’m liking this word), for me; when it’s crunch time and for the life of me, I can’t think of any new designs, I just open my book and go, “oh, yeah, here’s an idea.”

Reason 2, if you think of your idea book as a storage unit or a work station for things and projects you want to work on but for whatever reason, you can’t at this time. Example, I have this great idea for a comic book (at least, I think so); but I don’t have the time or the funds to make it a reality, right now, but I didn’t want to forget the details, so I wrote the bulk of my plan out in my book and 10 months or 2 years from now when I’m ready to do it, I can, just look over my notes and get started.

So, my advice, keep a pen, get a note pad or buy a writing book, so that when that little light blub in your head goes off you’re ready.

Therapy: I'm Video Blogging...

Okay, so I’ve been having a few problems focusing on things lately, and of course I only just recently realized this. Which only means, that there had to be a big “Ooops!” that brought this to light. I know that my main problem is that I don’t deal with things as one should, which is what most people do, but when it starts to effect your work then something must be done. So, I decided to start video blogging and get out some of the stuff that brings me down.

Now, I’m not going to stop typing in entries, I’m just adding a new feature that allows me to rant and rave more physically. Hopefully, it will help me get out some stress.

I strongly believe that talking things out helps people feel better and be better people. And, though I talk a lot, I never really talk about the core things that bother me. I’m just not good at talking to people about my feelings other than happiness and anger.

I figure videoing myself talking about things out loud and then posting, them would help. Because, I’ll be putting my thoughts and confusions out into the universe and not just pushing them down deep. Videoing also, helpful in the fact that I don’t have to spell check, I just go on and on with out worrying about grammar stuff.

My first entry is below, it’s about focusing or my lack of, plus I explain more on why I started video blogging.

Ongoings at BGG: Current Events

Hey everybody, Buddy-Girl Greetings is doing fine, I’m sorry I haven’t put out my Valentines cards yet, I will be soon, but by the time I do, I’m sure it will be too late. It’s just really hard to get them out; I had the same trouble last year. But, next year I promise things will be different, as I have done 2 cards this time and I all ready have the 3 cards on the site, I should have be able to launch in 2009 without any delay for new card designs. In my defense I must say that Valentines has never been my favorite holiday so, writing V-Day cards have never came easy. As you may know, neither Helena nor Kisha are that sappy and making sappy cards, are so, not my thing. So, look to next year as I promise to have my act together by then.

I will have new cards up by early March to include Easter and whatever else I have time to do. Also, look to the fall as I will be redesigning the BGG website to be more user friendly and update the look, it’s been 3 years, it time for a change.