#98: How to Remember Your Best Ideas - The Someday Maybe List
Real Estate Investing with Coach Carson
Chad Carson
4.9 • 613 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Episode #98 - Have you ever had a brilliant or important idea, but later on you forgot it?! Life is hectic, and it's easy to lose ideas that you want to remember.
But in this episode, Coach shares a simple, easy-to-apply process to remember your best ideas, both in your personal and professional life.
The process is called the Someday-Maybe List, and it was coined by David Allen in his amazing book Getting Things Done. You'll also hear about examples of the actual lists Coach uses and how he organizes them in daily planner and Google Docs.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever had a brilliant idea, but then you were so busy that later on you completely forgot about it? |
| 0:06.8 | Now, this could be something about your business. |
| 0:08.4 | It could be about your family. |
| 0:09.9 | It could be just something that was fun, and you would have liked to remember that later on. |
| 0:14.5 | Well, in this episode, I'm going to share a really simple system called the Someday Maybe List and how it can help you to recall those brilliant |
| 0:23.5 | ideas and to build your own library of ideas that you can access in the future, whether for |
| 0:29.2 | business, for fun, something with your family. And we're getting started right now. |
| 0:34.5 | Music started right now. |
| 0:45.1 | Welcome to the Real Estate and Financial Independence Podcast. |
| 0:46.8 | My name is Chad Carson. |
| 0:51.4 | You can also call me Coach, and this is a show all about helping you invest in real estate, |
| 0:55.2 | achieve financial independence, and do more of what matters. |
| 1:02.4 | Today's topic is about something called the Someday Maybe List. It's definitely not original to me. |
| 1:07.4 | It actually came from a book that I really loved for years called Getting Things Done by David Allen. And it was actually one of those little ideas that was important, but it wasn't |
| 1:11.6 | the core part of the system of the book. There's a lot of time management strategies and list |
| 1:16.6 | strategies. This is one that was just sort of mentioned, but I don't hear it's talked about as much, |
| 1:22.2 | but it's been one of the core helpful list that I've used for many years. And I'm going to unpack it a little bit, |
| 1:29.3 | explain how I use it. And again, explain how it's going to help you to build a library of your |
| 1:35.3 | ideas. You're a brilliant person. You've got a lot of ideas. What do you think about yourself that |
| 1:39.3 | way or not? You've got a lot of ideas that are going, being wasted because you're not collecting them |
| 1:44.8 | and organizing in a way that you can use them. So I'm going to go and I'm going to start talking |
| 1:50.0 | about that here in this podcast and explain it to you a little bit further so that you can |
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