“The tendency to jump from idea to idea spreads your energy horizontally instead of vertically.” In order to stop hopping, Belsky says, you must chart a clear course of action for each of your ideas—one that forces you to stay focused and keep taking next steps. Creative people tend to have a built-in resistance to organizational processes; we’d rather be dreaming up the next idea, which is why so many ideas never get past the dreaming stage to the “doing” stage.
