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I'm not saying you're wrong but much of this will depend on how your life is structured. For people whose life follows broadly regular patterns this is likely

I'm not saying you're wrong but much of this will depend on how your life is structured. For people whose life follows broadly regular patterns this is likely to be true but for free lancers who can go from feast to famine (with their spare time going in the opposite direction) having a list of possible projects isn't a bad idea. In terms of generating more ideas - yes you'll keep generating them but surely you want to pick up on the best ones rather than just what you happen to have come up with recently. Besides, the way ideas work and interact aren't always straight forward. Sometimes you might be in the mood to act on something fitting a particular brief when that's not what you've come up with lately. It's like reading a book - you don't just pick up the first one you see, you look through the shelves and see what appeals.

run4yourlives 16y ago
I don't see how this is dependent on a personal lifestyle, really. Everyone values their time, and in reality it's when you have a lot of free time that you'd benefit from this more. but surely you want to pick up on the best ones rather than just what you happen to have come up with recently That's my point though: the best ones don't really go away; they are annoying in their persistence to be executed on. Wait long enough and the landscape that the idea lives in has changed as well; an idea from 1989 will need to be re-imagined so much that it won't even really be the same idea. Sometimes you might be in the mood to act on something fitting a particular brief when that's not what you've come up with lately. If you have this much of a time luxury I am truly envious, I must say. But in this case you're speaking more of hobby projects, not true business ideas. True business ideas will need to be worked on consistently regardless of your daily attitude or they will fail, unfortunately.

run4yourlives 16y ago

I don't see how this is dependent on a personal lifestyle, really. Everyone values their time, and in reality it's when you have a lot of free time that you'd benefit from this more. but surely you want to pick up on the best ones rather than just what you happen to have come up with recently That's my point though: the best ones don't really go away; they are annoying in their persistence to be executed on. Wait long enough and the landscape that the idea lives in has changed as well; an idea from 1989 will need to be re-imagined so much that it won't even really be the same idea. Sometimes you might be in the mood to act on something fitting a particular brief when that's not what you've come up with lately. If you have this much of a time luxury I am truly envious, I must say. But in this case you're speaking more of hobby projects, not true business ideas. True business ideas will need to be worked on consistently regardless of your daily attitude or they will fail, unfortunately.