Ideation

I've been reading a book on identifying your strengths, and when I did the on-line self-survey, one of my main strengths was 'ideation', which seems to mean, 'coming up with ideas.' This fits with what the author of "Refuse to Choose" (I've been reading a lot of books like this lately) suggests, which is that there are some people who excel at creating ideas and that you are not meant to follow through on all of them. While that's a liberating concept in many ways, the fact is that I do have to take action on at least some of my ideas if I want to advance in my professional life. The problem is, which ones?

As I start my Masters degree, my mind is swimming with ideas about what I would like my first project to be. I have so many areas of interest. How am I going to focus enough to get anything done?

One thing the strengths book suggests is that in order to excel, you need to build on your strengths and manage around your weaknesses. Putting my ideas into action is one of those weaknesses I need to learn to manage around.