You Don’t Need More Ideas You Need a Clear Path
You don’t have a creativity problem. You have a clarity problem.
I spent more than a decade filling notebooks with ideas — twelve years, to be exact.
New business names. Course outlines. Product sketches.
Every few months, I’d convince myself this was the one, only to move on before anything really stuck.
And still, with all those ideas, I felt… stuck.
Not because I didn’t have enough, but because I had too many.
We think more ideas mean more opportunity.
But really, more ideas just mean more decisions and more overwhelm.
When you’re already working full-time, raising a family, or trying to hold everything together, your brain doesn’t need more. It needs direction.
For me, that shift happened during a season when I was still an executive, still leading teams, still doing all the things.
But I realized I couldn’t keep waiting for the “perfect” season to start building something for myself.
I needed to pick one simple step and move.
So, I chose journals. Low content journals that were printed by someone else.
It was creative but manageable.
Low lift, low risk, and something I could do in the evenings without adding more chaos to my day.
I decided to stop collecting ideas and start creating outcomes. One small, focused step at a time.
That’s when things started to shift.
Not overnight, not all at once — but slowly, I started building confidence again.
One published journal became two. Then five.
And that momentum gave me proof that I could start and finish something real.
Then when the first deposit hit my bank account, I was sold!
It’s not about cutting your creativity.
It’s about choosing what matters right now…in this season, with your real schedule, your real energy, and your real life.
You can do all the things later.
But first, do one thing well.
✨ Sometimes clarity doesn’t come from planning the next big idea.
It comes from committing to a small, doable one.
Progress Tip:
If you’re sitting on a pile of unfinished ideas, pick one that feels light, doable, and peaceful. The one you can actually start this week, not the one that needs a full rebrand or business plan.
Action Step:
Write down your “low-lift start.” What’s one small way you can bring that idea to life right now — even if it’s just publishing a single journal, recording one voice note, or outlining one lesson?
If this spoke to you, the Next Move Starter Kit will help you take that same clarity and apply it to your next step. It’s designed to help you organize your ideas, focus on what fits your life, and move forward with calm direction, not hustle. And it’s FREE.
And if you’re curious about the journal tools I used when I started my KDP journey, here are the two I still recommend for beginners:
How to Make a Real Passive Income with Amazon KDP (on Any Budget) — the complete KDP program that guided me through my first journal launches and showed me how to start building income on a budget.
Book Bolt — the design tool I use to create my personal content journals quickly and beautifully.
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