Making the Most of Your Best Ideas

Every experienced professional has nuggets s/he’s shared with clients again and again. It’s thus tempting, if only unconsciously, to diminish their importance—These nuggets seem old hat. So the professional's  tone in offering the idea, which used to be of urgency, is now flat, almost a throwaway line. And attentive clients interpret it as such. Or because you’re bored of an idea, you might not even mention it. It's old hat to you but may be fresh and important to your clients.

So consider, for each subset of the work you do, creating a written treasure trove of your most valuable nuggets, including your oldies but goodies. That may both remind you of their existence and that they’re nuggets, not throwaways.

To give you a sense of what I’m talking about here as well as to share a few of my best ideas, My Psychology Today article today offers a few favorite ideas that I haven't previously written about in much detail. At the end of the article, I offer links to posts with other favorite ideas.