Today, I want to remind you of an obvious truth, but it’s a truth we like to avoid. You’re going to die someday.

When you die, what happens to all those ideas you’ve been storing? All those books and stories you wanted to get to someday, but didn’t? What happens to all those plans and dreams?

The truth is that all those things will die with you unless you do something with them while you’re still alive.

The exception, of course, is if you’re one of those authors who leaves notebooks full of amazing ideas, and publishers turn them into books years and decades after your death. Or, they have other writers flesh them out and list you as a co-author. But I digress.

The fact remains that for most of us, our creative ideas will have no value once we are gone.

Here’s another way of saying it: It all goes back in the box when YOU go in the box.

So, make use of those ideas now. Don’t wait around for the perfect time because it will never come.

Great ideas are like fireworks. Until the fuse is lit, a firework is just an object made of paper, powder, and a fuse. But when you light the fuse, you set in motion a chain reaction that produces a BANG.

Your ideas are the same. You have to light the fuse by putting them out there on blogs, podcasts, social media, books, articles, or workshops. Your writing doesn’t have any impact and doesn’t produce a BANG, if it’s just sitting on your computer hard drive where nobody knows about it.

Remember: your life has an expiration date. So make use of the time while you still have it.

Today’s Challenge: Are you making a habit of getting your ideas out there, or are you storing them for the “someday” that may never come?