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When you’re on the highway it’s just a matter of driving as fast as possible for as long as possible until the song you love is over. But when you experience something like that in your personal/work place, what do you do about it? You feel like you own the world and if you don’t act quickly you will lose all creative and functional value attached to this feeling. Here are my suggestions (and experience has taught me to follow them):

1. Call up a good friend that shares similar interests. Warn him/her not to speak until you are done, and then have a little discussion. The real time feedback mechanism allows you to extend your original thoughts and ideas. Moreover, with having a genuinely interested listener, chances are, the feedback will be beneficial. Though, don’t overwhelm your friend and make sure to keep everything in proper context, because he/she doesn’t know everything dancing around in your head.

2. Do some reading and research. The material you come across will help put a better focus on your thoughts and turn them into something more concrete. The research will offer insight regarding expectations, trends, current technologies, and if you’re lucky enough, you’ll find yourself a few real life examples to chew on. Google, blogs, and entrepreneurial websites are your friends.

3. Write down your thoughts as if you were in a large brainstorming session. The process is very healthy and allows you to see your ideas on paper (keep a focus on important key points to avoid getting sidetracked). At the very least this lets you organize your brain activity and incite you to take action.

4. Spend a good amount of time on steps two and three. Once you’re in the zone you should take it for what it’s worth. This is important and building on your momentum will be crucial. You might have a really busy day ahead of you, but trust me, if you put this step off, chances are you’ll never come around to it. The decision to spend more time on this is a risk you take like any smart individual does when he/she lands on an opportunity. A word of caution though, keep track of time and make sure you’re not just fooling and wasting your brain cells.

5. Finally set a day to capitalize on your idea. Book it into your calendar! It would be pretty useless if after all the above, you simply put aside your idea and paper(s). Do yourself a favor, pick a day (weekends are days as well), wake up early, have a good breakfast and get to it. This day should be your plan of action.

Personal Experience:
I get that jolt of inspiration and motivation once or twice a month (on a good month), but up until recently I’ve always fallen into the trap of getting excited and doing very little productive work with it. I always used the excuse of being too busy, or “I’ll do it later tonight” or even thinking that when the weekend comes around, it’ll hit me again. However the few times that I’ve gotten off my ass and took productive action have been very rewarding. Not so long ago, I sold an image hosting website to a California-based social media company for six figures. And so, upon realizing the value of productively channeling these bursts of inspiration and energy, I’ve become more committed to my “idea-to-life” process and have been nicely rewarded (though sometimes somethings just don’t work out).

So remember:
1. Talk, 2. Read, 3. Brainstorm, 4. Time, 5. Schedule.

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer - Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese’s

I wish to better focus my efforts on www.ramiadada.com and bring it to life in the way I so creatively intended to; so hopefully this will happen in the very near future. I don’t have much to say as a few of the flu symptoms are slowly invading my wandering thoughts but good luck to everyone with your last minute Christmas purchases, exams, travel plans, and anything else you are occupied with.

Happy holidays!

Side Note: It’s been almost a month since my last entry; I’m a little disappointed with myself so I will try my best to stop this from happening again.

1. Update the website regularly with valuable (and not so valuable) content, experience, thoughts, and insight;
2. Promote a general upward trend in traffic (I love traffic);
3. Prove/disprove a few theories in my head by utilizing this website;
4. Expand my knowledge base and experience through the process;
5. Improve my related skills;
6. Something I will figure out along the way.

With that said, I’m going to be making a few changes here and there over the next 1-2 weeks before I start posting regularly. I definitely can’t wait till that happens!

I’d love to hear your comments about the design (hint: if you can’t find the comments button you should consider investing in some prescription glasses!)

Rami