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12 Step Program for Idea Addicts

Step 1: Be happy with what is, not what could be.
Open a kitchen cabinet, or draw, and resist the temptation to look at all the gadgets and think about how they might be improved… Start with one meal a day simply enjoying how things are and not how they might be designed some day….

Step 2: Once a day dashboard reviews.
While it is true that from 1:01pm to 1:02pm your dashboard might change you must show restraint. For the first week try only to visit your dashboard once a day, instead of every hour on the hour. If you must first start by cutting back to am and pm viewings.

Step 3: Speak free.
Remember the days when you would throw out an idea at the dinner table? Talk about your hit innovation over the holidays (with a group of STRANGERS)? Are you walking around with NDA’s in your pocket?? Reclaim your freedom. This week speak openly about an idea without the fear that someone will submit a PPA three minutes later.

Step 4: Put the highlighter down.
It’s OK to read Inventor’s Digest just for pleasure every once in a while. Put the highlighter away… Just once read it through without ripping out a page or adding a resource to your to do list.

Step 5: Get it touch with your feelings.
Instead of your normal quick posting, “out at R6, done at R7”, let it out once in a while, say what you really mean… i.e. “How could they not see this idea for the genius it is!”, “Great, now I have to go to work again on Monday”, “I waited 12 months for this dream idea t make it, now what”. Get it out, express your R’s.

Step 6: Talk out loud.
If you’ve talked to your thumbnail photo friends more than your family, or personal friends, it may be time to pick up the phone. Hear a voice, speak out loud, remember what it was like to hear an instant response and not wait for a post.

Step 7: Buy something fun for $20.
Remember when $20 bought you movie tickets or lunch…clothing or home purchases? Instead of the next $20 going to yet another idea, stop for a moment and just buy something fun.

Step 8: Sleep is sleep.
When you lay your head down on the pillow remember it means that it is time to sleep, not time to think of new product names and ideas. For one week in a row forbid yourself to think of new ideas when the lights go out.

Step 9: Remove LPS Pressure
It’s OK to skip a live product search. Stop. Breathe. Repeat it with me, “it is OK to skip a search”…once in a while it is OK to let a search go by without a submission. This will take time, but maybe you start by letting the ‘automatic talking parrot that presses your clothes’ idea go, and wait for true inspiration…

Step 10: Do not reinvent the steps.
If you are reading the steps, thinking about new, novel, unobvious ideas on how to improve the steps you have a true problem! Do not rework or add figure diagrams to these steps, this will contradict all other progress.

Step 11: Acceptance.
The sooner you accept that EN staff will not call you to personally say how brilliant your idea was; that a search will not progress to G8 in two weeks; if your idea was the one that ‘almost’ made it, the calmer you will be…

Step 12: But wait there’s more…
No, not here. Step 12 is simply Step 12. You don’t get 12 steps and then another 12 steps for free. There’s no extra incentive. No call in the next five for a free offer. It’s just 12 steps plain and simple. Learn to accept that not everything will come in doubles with free random items…

Print. Execute. And look forward to violating all steps with you all in the future ;)