I find that when a good idea lands it makes a different sound. You can feel it. It’s like when a shift happens in our thinking or life direction that we feel in our body – you know it’s significant, even if it’s not clear how or why immediately.

It was early morning and I was in the spa, it’s my quiet thinking time. This idea hit me and I knew it meant something. I didn’t want to lose it and it was moving quite fast so I hopped out and ran up to the office and began to write. I sat at the laptop still wrapped in my towel and within 10 minutes the idea was out of my head and on paper.

Good ideas tend to come quick and are effortless and yet can so easily get away from us if we don’t pay them attention. Elizabeth Gilbert talks about this in her book Big Magic. She talks about an idea that visited her and stayed as just an idea. She describes how, because she was distracted, the exact same idea wound up being published by someone else, somewhere else. The idea moved on.

Like our ideas, our dreams go elsewhere unless we pay attention and give them space to flourish.

It turns out this idea of mine in the spa resonated with a lot of people and if you missed it, here’s the resulting piece.

Want to inject some creativity in your life? Map out a direction for 2025? Come and see Liz Gilbert with me live next month and let’s work together on finding your magic.