Notebooks - Insights From a Motivational Speaker

Another stupid little thing that changed my life…

I stopped writing in notebooks

I loved the feel of jotting notes at a conference

the flow of the pen

the smell of the paper

the arrows and squiggles and boxes

ideas captured

or so I thought

One day I looked at my pile of notebooks

and realised it was an ideas graveyard

a place where my ideas went to die

and I could visit them sentimentally during the first week of January.

So, I spent months digitising them …aaaarghhhh

typing them out …aaaarghhhh

Then I put them in the bin

Now I make notes on iNotes (or your favourite app)

you’ll see me laptop on knees at a conference

tapping on my phone wile walking ;listening to podcasts

then on the bus/train/airport I copy and paste directly into my categorised folders in the cloud.

My ideas are now

where I can find them

when I’m thinking about them

and with me wherever I am

Guess what?

My ideas are reborn.

My content calendar is full.

My usefulness to others improves.

This simple thing has changed my life.

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If we haven’t met yet…

I never considered myself good at change until I went from

-average shot to army sniper

-home movies to National Geographic cameraman

-fumbling card tricks to a professional magician

-never swinging a hammer to building a home

-high school dropout to published author

-business illiterate to building & selling a business

-stutterer to motivational speaker

Turns out I know how to change, I know how to make it simple, and I know how to stand on stage & make it fun so others want to do it too.

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