The Greatest Journey

I had an insight today about creating an online questionnaire for leaders in a new training program. While it was fresh in my thinking I wrote a big list of questions. If I’d put the idea aside and tried to write it up tomorrow, it might take a few minutes to find my other notes, then a few minutes of going back over my thoughts, then more time to struggle through the exercise of writing up the questions. Given that I would need maybe thirty minutes to complete the exercise, there’s a chance it might  get bumped by more urgent projects.

Yet writing up the questions took only three minutes doing it right away. I was energized by the insight, I had mental momentum around this issue, and the ideas were fresh and clear in my mind. My point is: Get people to flesh out their ideas while they are fresh. It will increase the chances of real change.