Three ways to harness and develop your ideas

1.  Don't let ideas escape. Write them down. Every day lots of good ideas are born only to die quickly because they aren't nailed to paper. Memory is a weak slave when it comes to preserving and nurturing brand new ideas. Carry a notebook or a small cards with you. When you get an idea, write it down. A friend who travels a lot keeps a clip board beside him so that he can write down an idea the instant it occurs to him. People with fertile,creative mind know a good idea may sprout any time, any place . Don't let ideas escape, else you destroy the fruits of your thinking. Fence them in.                                                                      
2. Next, review your ideas. File these ideas in an active file. The file can be an elaborate cabinet, or it can be desk  drawer. A shoe box will do. But build a file and then examine your storehouse of ideas regularly. As you go over your ideas, some may, for very good reasons, have no value at all. Get rid of them. But so long as the idea has any promise, keep it.                     
3. Cultivate and fertilize your idea. Now make your idea grow. Think about it. Tie the idea to related ideas. Read anything you can find which is in any way akin to your idea. Investigate all angles. Then, When the time is ripe, put it to work for yourself, your job, your future.