Monday, December 28, 2009

EOY + Vacation = Trip to higher levels of perspective


2 comments:

Erik said...

Mike, I have been loving the recent updates. Any thoughts on how you organize your higher level thinking?

Mike Williams said...

Erik,

Thanks for our note. You might have noticed I added your question to my latest post.

Here's what I do:

I make sure I am capture ready. You may have a 50K idea in the grocery store.

I typically process the ideas into...

- checklists
- Questions I like to ask myself
- Active projects
- Someday projects

I also have a few journals I keep. I should probably start one 50k journal but I have not done that yet.

I find the capture process an important part of the 50k thinking. You capture things that have your attention. Once you have a bunch of these items it starts to paint a picture.

When you start to see the picture you can ask yourself:

- Is this the direction I want to head?

If yes, great. Continue capturing...

If no, why not. Continue capturing...

I hope this helps and adds to the discussion.

Mike