Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Success Quotes. Today, we’re going to look at a quote by Nolan Bushnell.

Nolan Bushnell once said: “Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.”

The best ideas often come when you least expect them.

There’s one piece of advice I’d like to share with you in this article. Ideas always come when you least expect them. This is called idea germination. It’s the formation of ideas in your brain at a time when you’re not expecting them, whether it’s while you’re taking a shower, chatting with a friend, going to get the bread, etc.

Ideas happen. Sometimes you say to yourself “that’s a really great idea, I really must think about doing that.” It could be for a project, something to do with your social life, your family, your children. Ideas happen all the time, when you least expect it.

Sometimes, you’ll want to have ideas on purpose, you’ll put yourself in front of a blank sheet of paper and think. But most of the time, the best ideas come when you least expect them.

TAKE NOTES
I’m going to ask you to do one thing from now on, and that’s to carry a small notebook with you at all times to jot down your ideas. This can be a paper notebook with a pencil, a notes app in your smartphone.

KEEP IT SIMPLE
Take a very simple application. Take something that will allow you to jot down your ideas in a very simple way.

Also put a notebook with paper and pencil next to your bedside table, so that when you go to bed at night or wake up in the morning, you can jot down the ideas you think of.

It’s a very simple trick, but it will ensure that you never forget what you’re thinking about without expecting to.

FORCE YOURSELF TO TAKE NOTES
Another very important tip: when an idea comes to you, force yourself to write it down. At the time, you may think the idea doesn’t mean much to you. But ideas are always very important, and you need to write them down.

Later, when you look back over your notes, you’ll be able to sort the ideas according to whether or not they help you move forward with your project. Some ideas may have seemed uninteresting at the time, but now, when you study them cold, you’ll find them very useful.

What happens to you along the way, when you go to buy bread, when you’re with a friend, when you fall asleep or wake up – these are the most important ideas in any field. From now on, always have a notebook, something to jot down your ideas, an app in your smartphone and take notes. Above all, force yourself to take notes. It can be a bit annoying at first to force yourself to take notes, but take notes, it’s really very important.

Personally, since the day I started taking notes, I’ve never forgotten an idea. In relation to my site Full of Happiness, I have ideas that come to me during the day, I write them down and I never have blank page syndrome again when writing an article. When I want to write an article, I know that in my notebooks, I’ll find an idea that I can develop into an article, a video, or a chapter of an e-book, a training video etc…

So that’s today’s advice: get into the habit of writing down your ideas, force yourself to write them down, it’s really very important.