Ideas Never Take a Snow Day

For many kids in the area, today is a snow day. Or, as I look outside, more like a slush day.

It’s amazing that within 30 seconds of finding out school is closed, kids have no shortage of ideas of how to spend the day. Okay, I do have two teenagers whose ideas are to immediately fall back asleep, but think back to when we were young. We were so grumpy to get up for school, but once it was called off, we had no shortage of energy – and ideas of how to fill the time. More plans were made with more ideas than we could fit into the day.

Now we struggle to get an idea. We get up and have no idea what to wear, no idea what to eat for breakfast, no idea how we will get to work on time, no idea what to tackle first, no idea how we’ll get through the day …

Why?

We’re not ready for ideas. We put our minds in a state that doesn’t welcome ideas. Ideas don’t pop into closed minds, irritated minds, grumpy minds. As many creative experts say, ideas come to those that expect them.

Getting ideas is not about superior creative brainpower – it’s about accepting the fact that you are more than capable of developing ideas and that you will do so.

If you have no idea, you will have no idea.