Don’t let anybody tell you how long should take a shower, because you can change the world in a thirty-minute shower. How? Stay with me please!
There’s something about the hot water or warm water (if you are like me) or cold water (I hear some people love cold bath) flowing over your head that makes what I call the “good part” and the “absent part” of your brain talk to each other. This is apparent when you break out into song, even though you know you’re one of the world’s worst singers. It also means that when you stand there with the soap in your hands (maybe a bad visual, some people close their eyes tight when water and soap start trickling down their face), you begin to try to reinvent the soap. You think, I can make a better soap than what’s out there today! Then you think about the packaging, then you look over and you say to yourself, the shampoo or soap doesn’t have very good packaging. The next you know, you imagine walking down the grocery store aisle, reinventing cereal boxes and other things. In your mind, you’ve become a grocery tycoon overnight while standing in the shower (it is allowed and that what I’m talking about).
From that point, you dream up a cool business idea. Your mind very quickly goes to rapid development-you have a product, and you have customers (my mind does a lot and yours too)! You turn off the shower and step one foot out onto the bathmat, then suddenly, you can’t remember anything you were just thinking about. It’s almost as if the window closed and whatever genius you created in the shower can never be duplicated, because you can’t open that session back up. Many times, you can’t even remember what you were trying to figure out in the first place. Many times, you are skeptical, so here is the gist: Have you ever been halfway through your shower, and you ask yourself, did I wash (it could be any part of your body, for example your hair) if you are like me, you bring your fingers up to the hair and rub to see if your hair is clean. Unsure, you lather your hair with more soap or shampoo and do the process over again, even though if you think of the effort it takes to wash your hair, there’s absolutely no way you should forget whether you washed your hair or not.
This is an active example that your mind, body and spirit are all moving into your subconscious where you not only invent new things, but you solve problems and potentially create opportunities or big ideas. My point is that you have to pay attention to your subconscious. Learn to focus on your idea and maintain that idea long enough so when you “get out of the shower”, you’re able to capture your idea on a nearby paper.
Make use of your mind! Allow your mind to wonder, create things in your mind today and step out and make it come to life! You are creative!
That is my challenge to you today. Take it!