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When Is Idea Time?

Jul 5, 2010 » by Cali & Jody

Get with the program and try to follow the logic, people!

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  • http://www.liftdevelopment.com Dave Yankowiak

    Great point, gals! There are definitely unplanned moments when ideas are flowing. Trying to fit those into an 8-5 schedule just doesn’t work.

  • C. A. Hurst

    Hi Cali & Jody,

    This is a great post!

    Both of my parents worked hard and played hard. My dad was 1/3 partner in a John Deere dealership and my mom was comptroller for a budding community college in the Columbia Basin area of eastern Washington State during the 60’s and early 70’s. Both of them put in more than 40 hours a week because that’s what it took to make things happen. But… they also always made time to play for themselves and their family (my sister and me). We would take day trips during the summer to swim and hang out at some very cool parks, as well as spend two weeks at the ocean on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, and we started downhill skiing together as a family when I was about 10.

    Later, when I was in my late 20’s and early 30’s both of my parents talked to me, both together and separately, about the importance of taking quality time off to recuperate and re-create from working. Ya wanna know where they came up with their best problem-solving ideas? On a chair-lift, when they weren’t thinking about work at all! Yep, that’s right folks. A lot of times the absolute best thing you can do when you’re stumped about something is walk away and leave it alone. Go figger! So when is idea time? Usually when you least expect it.

  • http://hk.linkedin.com/in/jenniferborek Jenn

    Thanks for making me laugh! SOOO true. My mantra has been, “Creativity doesn’t live from 9-5, it lives 24×7.” For art, for knowledge work, for anything!

  • http://www.thecoolruler.blogspot.com/ Alberto

    Your video gave me the idea to write this post that I titled “Pay me for my work, not my time”

    Sorry, it’s in Spanish (use Google translator)

  • Persephone K

    Nice! But don’t forget, its healthier to not work while on vacation. And always telecommute from a pre-approved telecommuting location. ;)

    • Jody

      Yo. At CultureRx the pre-approved teleworking location is planet Earth. Yup. The whole planet. :)

      • Persephone K

        That just sounds like madness. Madness I tell you!!! ;)

  • Holly

    So Funny…because it is so true! Ironic, that I too have the best ideas when I’m relaxed… which means usually NOT at my desk! Keep up the movement for all of us that believe we should get to “count” that ten minutes of inspired thinking before falling asleeep as “work”!

    • Jody

      Holly – we will never give up!

      And, with people like you on board, the movement will keep growing and growing and growing.

      Make sure if you have a great idea at midnight, you track it on a weekday during core hours. And, if the idea took you 10 minutes at home, be sure to track the time you spent on the idea as 2 hours because that’s how long it actually would have taken you in the ‘office’ (must count for interruptions and all the presenteeism you display). Besides, if the idea took you 2 hours, it’s actually better than an idea that took 10 minutes.