Sometimes, I happen to draft article ideas during my meditation, and sometimes, all 15 minutes of endurance training go to that activity. That’s not ideal, but it, too, teaches me a lesson: If I spend as little as a quarter of an hour brainstorming, thinking through the past 24 hours, about what happened this week, and allowing my mind to resurface whichever thought it prefers, I have article ideas out the wazoo.
After 1,000 daily blogs, you’d think I’d start running out. The opposite is true. The hard part is not finding an idea to write about. It’s picking one out of many that is specific enough to hold meaning but that I can also get to the point of being shippable—perhaps not finished, but shippable—in a time frame that doesn’t swallow the rest of my day.
For all the difficulty the execution brings, the reminder that the creative mind never runs out is wonderful. Creativity is an infinite well: It will always, always fill your bucket—as long as you make the effort to go and fetch water.