Our ideas spring up from the depths of our mind and pool together in a well. We can dip into that well when we need an idea.

Sometimes though we fear the well will dry up so we hoard what we have. We ration it. We save it for another time.

We believe a time will come when we need that idea more. We tell ourselves we’ll use the idea then. We dare not use it before then. That time never comes. Or it did and we didn’t recognise it so caught up are we in saving it for our day of need.

The idea goes unused.

Instead of running dry from overuse the well stagnates from lack of use. The ideas we hoard go stale. Thick weeds grow up around the well, hiding it, making it difficult to get to, impossible to dip into.

Don’t let this happen to you. Keep the well fresh, use it.