7 Simple Tips To Generate Unlimited Content Ideas While Working Full Time

Are you tired of struggling to come up with content ideas while trying to balance a full-time job?

Working a 9–5 makes it really difficult to come up with content ideas. Why? Because answering emails, responding to pings, updating PowerPoint slides, and answering client demand for 8+ hours straight isn’t really conducive to creativity.

Here are 7 habits to help boost your creativity so you can come up with more content ideas:

1. Prioritize sleep: Lack of sleep can affect your mood, memory, health, and ultimately your ability to think creatively.
2. Go on long walks: Morgan Housel, the author of Psychology of Money, has mentioned that most of his ideas come from going on long walks throughout the day. Many creatives do the same thing.
3. Eat real foods and not too much: If you’re eating a diet comprised of fast food, seed oils, and added sugars, it’s going to hurt your ability to generate good ideas. If you’re serious about creating high-quality content, you have to get your diet in check.
4. Curate the content you consume: There’s a lot of garbage content out there. If you’re looking to come up with novel and interesting content ideas, you need to curate your content diet.
5. Schedule time to consume content: What gets scheduled gets done. Your idea engine only runs if you regularly feed it with fuel.
6. Collect ideas you find interesting: The best ideas are the ones that get written down. There’s nothing worse than coming up with a great idea and forgetting to write it down.
7. Discuss ideas with other creators: Prioritize time spent riffing on ideas with your friends or other creators. You’ll find it’s a great way to test your thoughts while getting your gears turning to come up with new ideas.