It happens to all of us, no matter how organized we are. You’re laying in bed, your mind is racing, decompressing from the long day… and BAM.. "damn, I forgot to send so and so the email about that one thing…"

Fill in the blanks with your own personal scenario here. But a couple of things can happen when your head hits the pillow at night:

• Your mind starts to reconcile the day, and you often remember tasks that were forgotten through out the day when you got distracted by something else
• Even more importantly, your mind is freed-up to be creative and think of new, fresh ideas. Some of the ideas that have been posted in this forum were "dreamt-up" while laying in bed when my mind was free from the day’s chaos.

When these ideas hit you, turn on the bedside lamp and write them down. Otherwise they will more often than not be forgotten by the time you hit R.E.M.

Here’s another tidbit. You solve problems in your sleep. How many times have you awoken from a deep sleep and had an idea or solution to a serious problem that was weighing on your mind?

Usually sometime between hitting snooze on the alarm clock and getting out of the shower you will have a pivotal idea that will be lost for good unless documented almost immediately…

-Chris

-part of the 60 ideas in days series-