Thought starters

Thought starters

I have committed to write a 1,000 words a day. It sounds so easy BUT you would be amazed at how hard it is…. I have a thousand thoughts running through my head BUT they seem to sprout wings when I sit to write..

Some time ago, I found a book with the intriguing title 365 Ideas or though starters… and silently scoffed that any one would need such a thing.

Yesterday and today my thought vault - my mind - came up empty for ideas to write about, and I have been very good at keeping commitments to myself. Like, 10,000 steps every day which has become 10 kilometres, like dropping from 93 kilos to 80 this year now 79.8 this morning.., like writing a 1,000 words a day - I need some thought starters.

Looking for the book has come up empty!! What to do… type the question into google. And viola - 236,000,000 results (0.50 seconds) - a quarter billion ideas in less than a second [ .5 of a second ]

Then I need a challenge to pick ideas that can become themes…

Here are my 10 thought starters for the moment:

1. What is Outside the window

That is a great idea for every time you are somewhere different… today I have a motor bike, a shopping centre, a couple fighting and each could be a story in its own right.

2. The Vessel

My though starter prompt says what are you travelling in - by foot, by car, by train or by plane… some days all of these

3. Food

What are you eating, where are you eating, the story of the cooks like Jamie's Nonna Series on Television and so it goes….

4. Dreams

What they are, who is in them them and are they real or imagined etc…

5. Eavesdropping

This is an amazing one… the BOSS says I am going deaf but I think I have selective hearing because I can hear people talking about who will work Christmas day and how name badges can be great but they are useless if the type is so small people can’t read them

6. Great Minds

Who have you heard about that you could write about?? In the last week I gifted a Richard Branson book for the “To Do List” on the inside covers - 10 A380’s it says [ not at $300 million each ] I gifted the book to a friend who had said that the deal we were stratigising was too big… “We can think in $100, $1000, $10,000 but not $100 Millions” and my advice was Branson leaves off the noughts. And on my walk to coffee - remember part of my 10 k walk, there was a discussion of Darwin’s love of pigeons… that's for another day.

7. Numbers

I love numbers especially prime and there are book collections of the meaning of numbers - one I live is by Triple J announcer Adam Spencer.
Why is it that prices ending in 7 out sell prices ending in 5 even though 7 is more?
8. Closed Doors

In my Management Sessions I talk about the issues created by “closing the door…” and I could write story after story on how people have different reasons for and against closing doors.

I could talk bout the feeling of inclusion or exclusion when the door is closed..

9. War and Peace

At any given time there are conflicts that could be characterised as war or as peace… currently we have the prominent Australian found guilty but identity suppressed by court order which is a social war and a war of Political Power, we have the rise and possible fall of Theresa May plus the French are at it again - the Yellow Vest riots… and we haven’t spoken of war yet.

10. What you don’t know

On the walk I listened [ I always listen to something ] to the Freakonomics podcast Tell Me Something I Don’t Know… and I found out about the Hell Ant, predicting feelings by watching phone actions and more.

And it strikes me I will be busy for a long time before I get to one new idea a day or as Dr Google suggested: 236,000,000 results (0.50 seconds) - a quarter billion ideas in less than a second [ .5 of a second ]

How many words so far?? I am up to 734 so far! And I started 19 minutes ago without a clear thought in my mind.

I want to post this but I need to spell check - part of better writing is have fewer spelling mistakes… here we go let’s see how many I made - apparently I was able to catch 13! That got me to wondering about grammar. That is a different checker but before this is posted I will do that too.

Will I get to 1000… maybe not this morning but I will be much closer by having thought prompters. and with the corrections and additions I am over 900!