My Bright Idea

Sometimes I'll be out walking, or in the shower, or doing something other than sitting and thinking, and I'll get a bright idea. Like, an idea so bright that it will change the world! It will shine as a moment of genius! It will transform society... or at least my blog or workplace!

I work it over, I frame it in words, I picture myself writing it down and blogging it, or if it has to do with my work, enacting it. Of course the publicizing of this brilliant idea will be met with the enthusiastic applause of my readers, my colleagues, my direct reports, and/or the world at large.

And then I get home, or finish my shower and get dried off and dressed, or finish washing the dishes or vacuuming, or come in from the garden and get cleaned up... and I find my idea has either completely lost its luster, or disappeared.

It's so disappointing.

How can an idea that looks so stupendously beautiful and shimmering, look so uninspiring just a little while later? Or how can it just go "poof" and disappear, as though it discovered on its own that it had no importance or relevance for revolutionizing humankind?

Something really must be done about this.