30 second voice memos

You just had a conversation that could change how you think about some part of your life.

Odds are you'll forget it before you change anything.

Why?

Because our brain doesn't hold onto insight unless we put it somewhere.

Here's a simple system:

Open your voice memos and record 30 seconds.

One observation.

Whatever you want to take with you from the interaction.

Then create a folder on your phone and drop it in.

iPhone, it's the Files app.

Android, it's Google Files or Samsung My Files.

Label it something like "30 Second Thoughts."

Tag it with a few words.

Search it six months from now.

What you'll find is a database nobody else has.

Your patterns.

Your observations.

Your frameworks, before they were frameworks.

Three memos about the same thing is a newsletter.

Ten of them is a chapter.

A hundred true lessons is the book you didn't know you were writing.

Whatever you walk out of next, record 30 seconds before you drive away.

One thing.

One tag.

Don't edit it.

Do it ten times.

Listen back.

Then use them.