Why Ideas and Ideation Give Me a High

I'm hooked.

I've always loved ideas, brainstorming, coming up with a plan, thinking abstractly, imagining 'what if' and the like.

Case in point (let's see where this takes us):

What if . . . we all didn't use air conditioning for an entire day during the heat of summer. We could donate all the money saved--just for having one relatively uncomfortable day. Hmmm. If each home cost an average of $3-5/day to cool.... if 1,000 people jumped on my what-if bandwagon, we could contribute around $4,000 to a good cause. If I doubled my energy-saving crusade, $8,000 saved and given. And let's just say I got (now I feel like I'm hatching a pyramid scheme) 10,000 people to do this next summer and collected the $4-$5 saved from each of those people. Around $50,000. Maybe I WILL do that. Would you join?

But here's the thing: coming up with that instantaneous idea came about by asking 'what if' and man, it gives me a slight high to see those ideas start to germinate, take form, and possibly grow. Even more, when those ideas are shared with other ideators (see post on ideation if you need clarity on that word--I did) the ideas take a new shape. Ever-new!

My joy is to string those mini-eureka moments together to form a lovely, creative life for years and years to come. Sarah, my wife and lovely ideator partner, inspires me daily to do just that.

What if....

What if . . . we weren't afraid to think in new ways. To come up with solutions to things that we DON'T think need to be fixed--just to make it better. 

What if . . . ideas are God's gift to us and our gift back to God is to share the idea, enjoy it, ruminate on it and see what it becomes.

What if. . . your spark of ideation changed your city, your country, or your world.

What. If.