After putting all your ideas out, you can then decide which ones you’ll keep and which ones you’ll eliminate in finalizing a goal.  While this may seem like a timely process, it assures that all your great ideas are captured, regardless of how silly or how seemingly impossible they may be, towards helping you accomplish your objective.

It’s always best to work on a large paper or even a dart board, as seen here on the left, (since this can be a fun process too).  You want to be sure you aren’t restricting your ideas with too small of a writing or working space. 

Get all of your ideas out – both those that are strongly or mildly interesting and even the crazy ones.  With even the wild and crazy ideas, there can be kernals of something useful and powerful to include.  So don’t be too quick to discard these kinds of ideas.   Then see where there are similarities, where your experience, skills and strengths most occur, and with which ideas you’d have the time, energy and resources for.  In other words, begin the narrowing and focusing process after you’ve got all your ideas out. 

Best not to jump into action on any of these ideas until you’ve done the shuffling process of discarding the true misfit ideas and see the patterns emerge on what you really want to pursue.  Now with less ideas you can move into the R&D phase and do examination of these ideas or goals in more detail, to determine the best one to pursue.

As a Life Coach and Career Strategist, I was invited to be a guest on KCLA 99.3 FM Radio TONIGHT at 8:30 p.m. (Wed. 4/15/09) My topic is “‘Flow’ During Changes in Challenging Times.”

During my pre-taped show, Deborah Dachinger, the host of the Dare to Dream show, asked me to talk about my own experiences with flow.  As I said to her, being a person of high-energy, this is a passionate topic for me because it’s a life-long journey to live with flow.  Like most people, when pursuing my interests I can get very excited and focused and forget to balance this with the important downtime I need to regenerate and be sure I want to continue on the track I’m on and with the same course of actions.

Most of us who enjoy what we do can get so bogged down in the details and the significance we apply to our work, that we let other equally or more important objectives slip by the wayside.  You cannot push a river – and that includes all those goals we long to see manifest.  Our work is to find that delicate balance through committing to a life where we consistently return ourselves to a mindfulness of presencing flow.

How do you do live from flow?  Share your “comments” to this blog at http://www.creatingatwill.com/blog.   See the online press release on this show by clicking here.