Do you have a little yellow notebook?

I’m talking about that little book that you carry around with you everywhere you go. Its always within grasp and its a great companion towards success.

I know most of you have heard about it. Want to utilize it to the best of its abilities and yours? Here’s what you do.

Take that notebook everywhere you go (make sure you have someway to write). For you tech savvy type, use your blackberry, droid or Iphone. Anytime and every time you have a fleeting idea, write it down. Stop whatever you are doing and write it down. Did your idea come in the car? Get that little app that allows you to use your phone as a microphone. If that doesn’t work, get a microphone and record your thoughts while driving. The reason for all the effort? Your ideas are simply to good to trust to that sketchy thing we call memory.

How many of you have had a great idea and thought, I need to write that down later. Later you simply forget or don’t recall all the great details. By not stopping write there to write down that idea, you miss a great opportunity to encourage those other ideas to start flowing from were ever they come from. In the book “Think and Grow Rich”, by Napoleon Hill, he called it tapping into infinite intelligence. If you are on the line with infinite intelligence, why hang up the phone and try to start the conversation later? It simply may not happen again.

Use the little notebook and record your ideas. Since you always have it on you, that notebook can also be used for notes. Crazy, I know. Ever need to remember a phone number, name, place. Utilize it.

I strongly urge anyone using those idea catchers to go back and read through them again, perhaps even transfer them to a word document so you can group them. I know its time consuming, but the potential reward is limitless. Whatever you do, find a way to improve yourself every day. This is one way. Best of luck.