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Day 192 – Productivity – Hiking the Ink It Trail
Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 192 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Productivity - Hiking the Ink It Trail
Thank you for joining us for our 7 days a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 192 of our Trek, and yesterday we climbed and conquered Alibi Mountain as we bypassed all of the “If Only” rabbit trails. Today we are going to hike the Ink It Trail where we will learn how to “Ink it when we think it.” If you miss any of our Wisdom-Trek episodes, please go to Wisdom-Trek.com to listen to them and read the daily journal.
We are recording our podcast from our studio at Home2 in Charlotte, North Carolina. What a great time to be alive! Just to think that through our computers, we can communicate with anyone all over the world nearly instantaneously is amazing. The adoption of the internet worldwide, and especially mobile technology, is growing so rapidly. We must not overlook the opportunities that will allow us to impact others.
One area that I will be pursuing going into 2016 is to establish a community of podcasters that are Christ followers to provide them with a platform for services and support. This will be called The Christian Podcasting Network, and if you are interested in receiving additional information about it when we roll it out, email me at [email protected]. The impact that we can have in the faith community has a tremendous potential worldwide.
One word of caution though, with so much information online we can become easily overloaded with more information than we can effectively process if we are not careful. That is why we must put into place a system to capture those great ideas so that we can implement them when the time is right. We can’t possibly act on all of our ideas, so capturing them is essential.
On today’s Trek, we want to dig up some nuggets of wisdom that I discovered from Laura Stack, who refers to herself as “The Productivity Pro.” Playing off her terminology, our hike today will be along the “Ink It” trail. On our hike for today we will learn one of the best ways of…
Increasing Productivity: If You Think It, Ink It!
John Steinbeck said:
Laura Stack’s father had a saying he used to repeat often. He always carried around one of those little Mead spiral notebooks, which he liked to call “his brain,” and whenever an idea would strike him he’d write it down and say, “If you think it, ink it!”
Laura’s dad was correct. You can’t depend on your brain to remember everything, especially when you’re in the middle of another task. Nor is it a good idea to drop the task you’re working on and go wandering off after the new idea. Oh, you can do that…But if you make a habit of it, you’ll never finish anything, and you will waste hours in your day. No wonder so many people feel they are ADHD. With sensory overload today, it so easy to get distracted.
So, when you have a random thought that sounds good, get it down on paper (or electronics) ASAP. You can use a little notebook, a handheld device like a smartphone, a compact voice recorder, 3 x 5 index card, or a standardized planner—whatever works for you.
I personally use Evernote which is loaded on my phone, tablet, and all computers because it syncs the exact information everywhere. For about a year before I started the Wisdom-Trek podcast, I started compiling a list of topics for daily episodes. My list contains nearly 300 topics, with more being added as I check off the ones that I have already completed. This is all handled within Evernote. No matter what I am doing or where I am, I can record an idea or clip an article and put it in Evernote. This allows me to “Ink it when I think it.
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Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 192 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Productivity - Hiking the Ink It Trail
Thank you for joining us for our 7 days a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 192 of our Trek, and yesterday we climbed and conquered Alibi Mountain as we bypassed all of the “If Only” rabbit trails. Today we are going to hike the Ink It Trail where we will learn how to “Ink it when we think it.” If you miss any of our Wisdom-Trek episodes, please go to Wisdom-Trek.com to listen to them and read the daily journal.
We are recording our podcast from our studio at Home2 in Charlotte, North Carolina. What a great time to be alive! Just to think that through our computers, we can communicate with anyone all over the world nearly instantaneously is amazing. The adoption of the internet worldwide, and especially mobile technology, is growing so rapidly. We must not overlook the opportunities that will allow us to impact others.
One area that I will be pursuing going into 2016 is to establish a community of podcasters that are Christ followers to provide them with a platform for services and support. This will be called The Christian Podcasting Network, and if you are interested in receiving additional information about it when we roll it out, email me at [email protected]. The impact that we can have in the faith community has a tremendous potential worldwide.
One word of caution though, with so much information online we can become easily overloaded with more information than we can effectively process if we are not careful. That is why we must put into place a system to capture those great ideas so that we can implement them when the time is right. We can’t possibly act on all of our ideas, so capturing them is essential.
On today’s Trek, we want to dig up some nuggets of wisdom that I discovered from Laura Stack, who refers to herself as “The Productivity Pro.” Playing off her terminology, our hike today will be along the “Ink It” trail. On our hike for today we will learn one of the best ways of…
Increasing Productivity: If You Think It, Ink It!
John Steinbeck said:
Laura Stack’s father had a saying he used to repeat often. He always carried around one of those little Mead spiral notebooks, which he liked to call “his brain,” and whenever an idea would strike him he’d write it down and say, “If you think it, ink it!”
Laura’s dad was correct. You can’t depend on your brain to remember everything, especially when you’re in the middle of another task. Nor is it a good idea to drop the task you’re working on and go wandering off after the new idea. Oh, you can do that…But if you make a habit of it, you’ll never finish anything, and you will waste hours in your day. No wonder so many people feel they are ADHD. With sensory overload today, it so easy to get distracted.
So, when you have a random thought that sounds good, get it down on paper (or electronics) ASAP. You can use a little notebook, a handheld device like a smartphone, a compact voice recorder, 3 x 5 index card, or a standardized planner—whatever works for you.
I personally use Evernote which is loaded on my phone, tablet, and all computers because it syncs the exact information everywhere. For about a year before I started the Wisdom-Trek podcast, I started compiling a list of topics for daily episodes. My list contains nearly 300 topics, with more being added as I check off the ones that I have already completed. This is all handled within Evernote. No matter what I am doing or where I am, I can record an idea or clip an article and put it in Evernote. This allows me to “Ink it when I think it.