110 Ideas For A Book

(This is a copy of my blog posting from Day 7 of the 45 Day Boundless Living Challenge, in which my goal is to write a book!)

What a day! I had loads of alone time today to write. I did some journaling, until I then realized that the day was getting late and I wasn't focusing on any book whatsoever. So instead of writing, I surfed the internet for awhile, catching up on emails and exploring ideas from other peoples' posts here as well. (I am very good at procrastination, distractions and avoidance!)

My offline friend, Vicki P, who joined this challenge also, had sent me an email from a phone conversation that we had had right before this challenge began. That was a week ago. While she sent me the email right away, I hadn't had a chance to look at it until today.

In her email, she threw me a link to another blog called Litemind.com where the author, Luciano Passuello, writes about using the technique of writing A List of 100 for personal and creative development. Since I have always had so many interests in my life and have many different books in my head, just waiting patiently for me to release them, I often struggle with what to do first.

So I decided to try this technique and came up with 110 things I could write about! I could have kept going, but when I found myself pausing to search for other ideas, I stopped. (I think I have enough to start!) It turns out that my procrastination and distraction was the Universe's way of bringing this technique to my attention.

I am happy with my list, I have to say. Although it may not seem that I'm focused to some, the exercise was great for focusing on my life experiences and getting those ideas down on paper, for listing areas of expertise from the jobs I've had and for recording my passions in a concrete way--These are all things that I want to write about. So now I have a concrete list on paper and in my hands!

I think I'll now tap on gaining insight, inspiration and creativity into one or more of these ideas and see what happens next.

I see a title and a topic and some actual writing coming soon!

Until next time....

P.S. I actually miscounted and I have 112 things on my list!