People love asking about and thinking about where ideas come from. Over the past week or so, here’s where my ideas for blog posts, email newsletters, my print newsletter, client proposals, and other work-related stuff have appeared:
- Standing at the kitchen sink doing the dishes
- On a walk
- Waiting for the light to turn red
- Folding the clean towels
- An article I read and really appreciated
- A LinkedIn post that made me mad
- Sitting on the porch watching people walking their dog down our street
- Doing the dishes (again)
- Lying in bed at night trying to fall asleep (sadly I didn’t write this down and did not remember it in the morning, hopefully it’ll come back to me 🥲)
- While sketching my latest art project
- On a run in our local forest
- While eating a sandwich
- Talking to my roommate about the cool stamps I just bought
Where the idea for this came from: right after I had an idea for a different topic while doing dishes.
Number of ideas that came to me while at my computer: 2
Number of ideas that came to me while not at my computer: 11
Moral of the story: If you’re feeling stuck, try doing the dishes.
Rachel on the Web 
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