If you are anything like me, you might be someone who comes up with all sorts of seemingly “great” ideas for your business—only to get caught up in everyday responsibilities and leaving those ideas to languish unexplored. I think that most of us have all sorts of fantastic ideas to improve our businesses that never see the light of day—simply because they fall off our plates or we never get around to trying them out.
Who knows? There may be an amazing morsel of idea just sitting around in our notebooks or at the back of our brains just waiting to help us invigorate our businesses. As a writer, I learned long ago not to throw out any of my old scraggly notebooks. There are often notes, paragraphs, brief outlines, character sketches, or snippets of dialogue that are just waiting for the right opportunity to be brought back to life. I think the same thing happens in all sorts of industries and businesses. While some ideas are surely duds, others are just sitting on the shelf, waiting to be brought to life.
Why not take an afternoon and go through those old notes, resurrect old ideas and revisit solutions and growth opportunities that you’ve set aside? I know one person who keeps a folder where she stuffs magazine articles, notes, and lists so that they won’t get lost and then once a month she takes them out and sees if there is anything she wants to explore further or even try to implement in her business.
I know that we are always on the lookout for new ideas to improve our home business operations—but some of those “new” ideas may be ones that we have already touched on—we just need to revisit them with fresh energy and fresh eyes and see if they can’t give our businesses a boost today.
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