Always carry a notebook

Whether you go old school with a normal notebook, or high tech with your iPhone or any other digital form of “notebook” you should carry it with you, all of the time, and remember to take notes. It’s one of the simplest things you can do to become more productive. This is for many reasons, the biggest being, thoughts rarely happen at times that are convenient you may come up with valuable ideas when you are on the bus, on the plane or basically anywhere else.  Another reason, you never know when you may unexpectedly run into a potential client or an existing one. Many times have I had amazing ideas or run into a potential or existing client, not had a notebook and tried to remember it all in my head, only to forget the whole or parts of the ideas and misplace who is, wants to be or was a client and what they needed. You get the idea. Don’t underestimate just how much more simple you can make your life by simply jotting down your thoughts as they occur.