I've written before about my Brainstorm Book technique at Fan To Pro before, and it's a technique I've taught others.. 
To sum it up quickly – I keep a book with me to write down Great Ideas
relevant to my life/career/ambitions and review it regularly.  I use a
relatively small, 7×5 inch book that fits easily in my briefcase or
sits on my nightstand.

This one I've been using since October
2008, reviewing it every few weeks to refresh myself on ideas I had,
integrating certain ones into my future plans, preserving others for
later.  Indeed, part of this blog and how it's evolved came from there,
as have generators at Seventh Sanctum, and other ideas.

I looked
through the recent entries, and then placed it on my "must reread"
shelf of books for review in the near future.  I felt oddly
sentimental, because I have a lot of great ideas in there, things that
have changed, are changing, and will change and improve my life.

The
brainstorm book idea, as I said, is a way to get, keep, and review good
ideas – but it also provides the discipline to keep working on your
personal vision for your life.  It makes thinking about the future,
about developing Great Ideas, a habit, an instinct.  Great Ideas are
really easy to have – we tend to make them hard, ignore them, or brush
them off.  Giving them a chance at life takes some work.

I have
over eight months of great ideas, in my awful handwriting, sitting on
my shelf.  The ideas in that book – and it's brother, which now sits on
my nightstand – will be with me for years or decades to come.

Yeah.  It's worth doing.  If you haven't, go read this essay, and go get one.

- Steve, aka X