Refuse to choose.

Today, I started a new notebook.

I selected my finest notebook - black paper (yes, really) with silver-tipped edges, a soft emaculate cover. The notebook I dare not write in, because it's so pretty and expensive. In my hand, a bold silver pen, metallic, the kind you use to write Important Titles.

These small choices are made to signify one thing.

I honour what I'm about to write.

This simple notebook is now what is called a 'scanner daybook'.

What?

A 'scanner', as defined by Barbara Sher, is someone who is interested in a whole range of unrelated, different ideas. They always have a new idea for a project.

When not honoured, these ideas can fester and become the stuff of indecision, procrastination, paralysis. They are never allowed the chance to breathe, because no person can do them all. The scanner is left fearful of their own imagination, because there's just too much.

A scanner daybook changes that.

It allows the ideas to breathe, to be fleshed out, for creativity to run amok. It allows for the brain to make its important connections. It refuses to choose just one idea, just one project - it speaks the truth - that anything can happen.

The daybook honours play.

The daybook respects imagination.