Oh, hi friends!
Have you ever done “10 ideas”?
It’s this exercise where you write out 10 ideas for, well, anything.
You have a germ of a story idea. Write 10 directions you can take it in.
You want to improve your apartment. Write 10 ways you can rearrange or change it.
You’re looking for a new job. Write 10 people you can contact.
Usually, the first 3-4 ideas will come naturally to you. The next 3 will get a little more “out there.” And the final ideas will go far beyond your initial thoughts. To get to 10, you need to be extra creative (or crazy).
If you do this over and over again, you’ll find that your first ideas aren’t necessarily the best ones.
And that the possibilities are far greater than you think.
“The last time I traveled from North Carolina to New York I brought only a backpack. “Is that all you packed?” my mother asked when I walked into her home. “I travel light,” I replied. Which, while accurate, was not the whole story. The truth was that I didn’t want to pay the $32 baggage fee and — much to my mother’s chagrin — I’ll suffer almost any small indignity to save a few bucks.”
I’m obsessed with this story Christine Hennessey wrote for me over at Money: “I shop at Aldi, fly Spirit, and ditched my iPhone.” Here’s why she loves her “no frills” life.
(PS — She also writes a wonderful weekly newsletter!)
Jeremy Jordan thinks “something’s coming.”
I do, too.
Do you?
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara