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Isaac Lyman

This happens to me too, but in my case it's more dependent on boredom and the time of year than on exercise.

  • I use Google Keep to take notes of any good ideas I have before I fall asleep. Once I write them down, they stop bugging me.
  • I dedicate a few evenings a week and an occasional weekend to following through on the ideas I'm most excited about.
  • I remind myself that ideas aren't a scarce resource, but passion is. So I don't feel bad tossing away the ideas that I've stopped caring about by the next morning.
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Paweł Ruciński

First of all, thanks for reply.

I use mixed techniques to store my ideas, sometimes it's onenote, sometimes I send an email to myself or write it on slack to discuss with coworkers later. Of course, there are always two sides of a story. After that, I am not done with thinking. I still find more ways to improve these old ideas, while more new ideas appears.

The real problem is when I have already a couple of them written down and still cannot fall asleep. Suddenly I realize it is already 1 a.m. or even later.

I don't find it as something wrong, but I am aware of that tomorrow is another day.

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Grzegorz Jońca

Have you ever tried a meditation?

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Paweł Ruciński

I have it on my TODO list :)