Periodically, I will find my mind brimming with ideas I want to explore. The ideas range in scope and more often than not they are hobby-oriented and related to creating something. Sometimes I find this abundance of things swirling around in my head pretty overwhelming.

I've noticed that in response to this barrage of ideas and inspiration, I often end up writing everything that's interesting to me down as a list. I go from a jumbled web of disparate points to a list of things, like a train passing by. Each train car might be related or different in appearance, but at least I can look at them in sequence and clarify my thoughts. I find that just writing things down like this is healthy and helpful for me. At first, I found it a little odd and a little bit discouraging; I would end up with a list with all these things that I wanted to do, and I knew that realistically, I wouldn't do most of them.