Too much creativity...too little completion

[TCrawford]

Hello,

Something I noticed about myself recently is that I have so many great ideas, I kind of hop around without finishing one.  Specifically within my goal, I have started a couple of things which are all still in motion but none are moving as much as they could bc my energy is dispersed.

How does one choose which avenue to stick with in creating an Impossible Goal?  Maybe the Intuition Game...

Also any tips for breaking up the day to allow time for admin stuff but not letting it consume the day.

Thanks!
Tiffany

[IanH]

Well I read a great tip from Michael not long ago about 'Sprinting'. That is to dedicate time to something in a short but intense burst and following it up with an equal rest period. Maybe you could experiment with picking one of your great ideas and putting your all into it over a short amount of time. Then follow it up with some well earned rest.

Also, i don't think it's a bad thing to have many ideas going on at once. Nobody says you have to stick with one idea and work on it until it's completed. How about working on one of your ideas when you feel like it? If the next day, you want to work on one of your other ideas, do that. You may find you come back in time to those ideas you worked on before and do a little more.

Sure, over say a week you might not get much done. But what if you juggled all those ideas around over the course of a year and worked on each one, when you felt like it, bit by bit. What would you achieve in a year?

[Rich Litvin]

Something I noticed about myself recently is that I have so many great ideas, I kind of hop around without finishing one... How does one choose which avenue to stick with in creating an Impossible Goal?

This is gonna sound silly, Tiffany 
Pick one. 

What I mean by that - is take one of your great ideas and experiment. Create a trial.
Commit to running with this one great idea for a fixed period of time.
And then evaluate. The time period could be a day, a week, a month, three months. But once you've chosen your time period, stick to it.

As for which one to pick...
Either (a) Play your Intuition Game!
Or (b) Choose your breakthrough Goal

A Breakthrough Goal is the one single goal that if you worked on that to the exclusion of every other goal you have, you would be most likely to achieve all your other great goals, anyway.

My experience is that having a Breakthrough Goal feels counterintuitive "but what about all my other goals?"   
But it works!

Also any tips for breaking up the day to allow time for admin stuff but not letting it consume the day.

Man! I used to read hundreds of productivity blogs and they all say such different stuff!
What's working for me this month is not checking email until after 4pm. And a friend just told me that he works a 3 day split: Day One - Amazing Project Day; Day Two - Everything Else Including Admin day (he answers email on this day only); Day Three - fun and laughter day. Then back to Day One again - I LOVE this idea!

[TCrawford]

Hmmm, great advice.  Thanks guys.

Ian I love the idea of Sprinting.  I will try to work that into the way I work...Possibly do sprints on one idea to make some headway.  Also, thank you for the permission to express my creativity and have multiple ideas.  It IS a good thing, especially if you give it time.

Rich, I do have a breakthrough goal which is my impossible goal.  And I am inching it forward everyday.  My concern is I have so many ideas on how to inch that one goal forward...I need to choose one, then the fear is what if that doesn't work...

In terms of admin, I think I will do the 3 day rotation!  I love it!  I may break it into parts of a day...

[Terri Carey]

Great that you have identified this as a challenge to overcome!!