Day Dreams, Memories & Creating In The Zone

I day dream. A lot. Not so much the staring into space with my eyes out of focus kind, but more the complex and complete plans for very random ideas kind. Although, I do find myself spaced out when I’m riding public transit sometimes.

The piece I posted with the plans for Mike and Murph’s Sports Bar is a great example. That idea started 10 years ago and has been dormant for most of the last 9 years. Even when I was living in Mike’s spare bedroom we didn’t really talk about it. And yet there I was, early last week, mapping out all of the ideas I could come up with.

I don’t know where that tendency comes from. I don’t know if it’s something I should have outgrown by now, but it’s here and it’s me.

Sometimes my day dreams are crazy vivid memories from my childhood. Not important things or life changing events. Just regular day to day stuff. A lot of times they include people that I haven’t seen or talked to in a long time. I’ve never understood it. In fact, I think I remember the mundane and random moments of my life more clearly than the important ones. Weird eh.

I think the reason I’ve never been concerned with my day dreaming is that it’s never really impacted my daily productivity. I always manage to get the job done despite my doodles and lists and ideas and crazy schemes. Sometimes I’m even more productive thanks to them.

And I’m sorry, but I’m not sharing any of my schemes.

I like my day dreaming to tell you the truth. It’s a zone that let’s me be creative. My brain just flows. I’ve written a lot of words from somewhere in that zone. I’ve also wasted a lot of free time thinking about some very random things when I’m sure I could have been concentrating on changing the world. But the way I choose to see it, one day I might start day dreaming and come up with some freakin’ great ideas to change the world anyway.

I guess the only way to find out is to keep doing things the way I’ve been doing them. And feel free to join me in the zone sometime if you want. There’s plenty of room.

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Joshua Murray

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