Keep All Your Someday Ideas on One List

An idea for a trip, a project, a book you might write — it surfaces in the middle of something else entirely, and now you are half-present, chasing a thought that has nowhere to go. Multiply that by a week and your attention has been quietly leaking the whole time.

Keep one running list for everything marked someday. The moment an idea appears, write it down in a single line and return to what you were doing. The list holds the idea so your attention does not have to. Review it once a month — most entries will keep, and a few will turn out to be worth starting.