Don't you hate that?

An idea flashes across your mind, feels so sharp, so clear, and you say to yourself,

I'll remember that one.

That's genius.

How could I forget it?

And then, a half hour later, gone, like it never happened.

That's the mystery of the mind. It can give you brilliance in a moment,

then take it back just as quick. See, ideas are like little gifts. They're whispers. They don't

come with a guarantee. They don't hang around long waiting for you to get ready. They show up,

and if you don't capture them

they're gone and here's the tragedy sometimes those ideas could have been

worth a fortune could have been the seed that changed your business changed your

health changed your relationships but because you didn't write it down, you lost it. Think of it this way.

Life gives all of us chances, opportunities. A word we overhear, a line in a book, a moment in

conversation. And the person who learns to seize it, to hold it, to put it where they can return to it later,

that's the person who rises.

That's the person who builds wealth,

who builds character, who builds a future. Now why do so many miss it? Because they think ideas are casual.

They say if it's important, they'll remember. But listen, the human mind is busy. It's juggling bills,

problems, chores, conversations. An idea comes floating through like a feather in the wind. If you don't

catch it, the wind carries it off. And tomorrow, you're left with nothing but a faint feeling

that you were about to think of something good. I was poor when I met Mr. Schof, broke, clueless, but I had a hunger to change.

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