slow cooked thoughts are the best thoughts

Okay, this winter things have been pretty hectic but right now everything seems to have drawn to a halt.

And this means that I've finally got time to give full thought to those I've placed in the slow cooker of my brain.

It seems to me that it's not really mid-winter that causes the sudden pause in business life, but rather the end of the financial year that brings things to a temporary halt.

Every year I use this time to think about new projects and how I can do things better.

In the flurry of day-to-day business activity it is easy to flit across the surface of projects and put everything not immediately important on the back burner.  The trouble is we may never get to that back burner.  And, so, life becomes a merry-go-round of simple survival.  This project, next project and so on.

How many times have we all had a great idea which hangs around in the back of our mind but never gets the attention it truly deserves?  Perhaps this idea is not dead and gone, but rather slow cooking.  In my case, I really need to slow cook an idea.  I place it in the back of my mind, ponder the thought and sit on it for a period of time others believe is actually procrastination.  It's not!  It's me thinking, questioning and coming up with the best way to move my idea forward.

Don't give up on those ideas thought up long ago.  Perhaps they are just slow cooking in your brain.  Revisit and serve them up when business is slow.  They may be your best ideas yet!