This is Stevea Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

They say that one of the secrets to extraordinarily innovative people is they have lots of ideas.

Maybe, but maybe we all have lots of ideas.

You have brilliant ideas, like putting your town under a sleeping curse so you can hoard all of the Oreo ice cream cake.

And that's a worthy goal.

Maybe you just need the ability to make your ideas come true.

Also check with the producers of once upon a time, because let's face it, your idea may have been inspired, quote unquote, by seven seasons of watching that plot play out.

Want to make an idea come true?

First, you have to remember the idea.

We don't bother with memorizing anymore.

We trust our smartphones to remember for us, freeing our brains to scroll happily through

social media, click on like buttons, and inform people who are wrong on the internet that

their opinions hold no merit.

Oh my gosh, the future is a dystopian nightmare.

But in order to be the next Einstein, you have to remember your ideas. You have to capture

them in the first place, and then you have to organize them. And then you have to get them back

when it's time to turn your idea into the next revolutionary big thing.

One of the great things about smartphones is that you can use them to record audio.

Move your audio recording app to the front

and center of your home screen, and when you find yourself having a good idea, pull out your

smartphone, if you're like me, it's in your hand anyway, fire up the recording app and talk

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