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[Laurie]

I've been carrying a notebook with me for the last couple of months so I can keep track of interesting comments or ideas that I'd like to implement or do extra research on. It's a great way to revisit previous thoughts. Just yesterday while I was in my dentist's waiting room, I re-read some comments I took down at a seminar and found a wealth of productivity ideas that I would have never remembered otherwise. Now that they're fresh in my mind I'm able to apply them in useful ways. Keeping a notebook on hand is a valuable way to capture all kinds of beneficial information that's easy to forget with so many other things vying for our attention.

[Rosa Say]

Aloha Laurie, I believe this is the first time we are meeting each other, welcome to Talking Story and the Ho‘ohana Community.

I have flip-flopped between the notebook and carrying a binder clip of index cards with me. Each has its advantages. For instance, the index cards work great when I am taking notes at a seminar like you just mentioned, for speakers will come back to certain points and add to them, and the index cards make it easy to group their suggestions under one idea heading. Then later I will spread them out on a table and do some mind-mapping as I decide how to follow-up and take action with certain things - index cards are great for shuffling and prioritizing, re-ordering project steps as time goes by.

I am a very visual person too, and so the process helps me a great deal. But as you mention, notebooks have other self-contained journaling type advantages.

On a different subject, I just visited your blog, and you nail it with your Here to Listen posting; I quite agree.
http://www.expressyourselftosuccess.com/here-to-listen

[Laurie]

What a great way to use the index cards! I like this a lot and it will come in handy. Thanks for sharing that idea.

Thanks too for visiting my blog and for your comment - it was good to 'see' you there.

[Rosa Say]

I have added your blog to my feed reader Laurie. Seems to me that my ‘talking story’ and leadership coaching has a lot in common with your “express yourself to success” – certainly in the communicative character of our objectives! We can learn much from each other I’m sure!

[dave]

Ahhhhhh! I didn't know you throw your journals away! Poor little abandoned babies out on the cold street all alone.

You've backed me into a corner Rosa. I am forced to call DJS. (Department of Journal Services).

Oh sure, you'll show off your new idea journals. They get the nice clothes and probably ice cream too.

I'm probably going to have nightmares tonight....

[Rosa Say]

Dave! I wouldn't abandon them out on the cold street all alone!!! Brace yourself now: I shred them.

But don't despair. They go to a very cheerful recycling bin I have (it is *not* one of those dreary black dark ones) enroute to Paper and Ink Heaven. Some shreds join the choir, and some go to your sleepy-time dreams which live in the land of singing words and dancing phrases.

By the way, I heard your muse does a mean jitterbug there... (borrowed a hula skirt from my muse one wild weekend :)

[dave]

This is a treasure Rosa LOL!!