Parking Your Cars
I have come up with so many ideas for writing. In fact, they've been spinning around in my head for the past day and two nights. I once heard a person describe multiple ideas zooming around in one's brain as "cars that need to be parked". I completely understood to what she was referring. She then went on to explain how she "parked" her "cars" in a "garage" so she could begin to focus on developing each idea (car). Her garage? A notebook. When I heard that, I thought, “Brilliant! That explains why I feel compelled to write down lists and lists of things. And when I do, I feel so much calmer and more organized, even if I don't complete EVERYTHING on the list." I recall going to a NP quite a few years back for a physical. She got me to talk about the things I did to feel calm (because, frankly, I didn't feel calm most of the time). Besides going for a walk and getting adequate sleep, I told her that I wrote lists of