Unloading with Joey Reiman · May 15, 2008 · Old Posts

I made it down to Buckhead Church today to attend their staff meeting and here this guy Joey Reiman. He’s only one of the most well known dudes in Atlanta business world. He wrote a book called Thinking for a Living, which he gave one to each of us this morning. Anyway, he gets paid (sometimes millions) to teach businesses how to think. Pretty cool. I am not even going to try and pair down all the notes I took (which might be more in 1 hour than I took in 4 years of college). So here are all of them.

2 things first:

1. You must read through all of them. Don’t stop. They are all good.

2. You must leave a comment to tell me your favorite couple of thoughts.

Enjoy…

Joey Reimann-Thinking for a Living

-Big Ideas don’t appear they evolve.

-Most creative thing you can ever do is fall in love.

-Famillionaires-put you wealth in your family and friends.

-When I need a great idea, I go right to church.

-Never marry anyone that isn’t a fan of your excitement.

-Hot ideas are the currency for the day.

-Everyone is creative, but we have been told that we are not. Some of removed those layers and allowed to think better.

-Key to creativity is to look behind stuff.

-Define yourself or you will be defined by others.

-People lose their accountabilities in companies, their authenticity, and people tell them what their successes are.

-Don’t should on yourself…

-He was drunk with hope.

-Ideation

-If I take action on an idea, then it becomes a habit.

-There is trepidation about ideas and doing something about them.

-Omission of nurturing in relationships is abuse.

-Optimism is huge for ideas.

-Give the middle finger to fear.

-The safeway is a grocery store, if you never take chances, then you will be safe.

-When you create you are acting on behalf of something much bigger.

-He wanted to be alive again…don’t ask anyone what the world needs, but what makes them come alive.

-Make the difference between health and wellbeing (teach your kids that!)
-Talk about the stars and supernatural things.
-You lose your sense of wonder in 5th grade. When you discover your wonder, you create stuff.

-Whole foods impresses him experience wise.

-Adults are the corpses of children.

-5 places-Last place to think is your office

1. Church
2. Car
3. Shower-womb like
4. Gym
5. The Jon

-When your thoughtful, you make better decision.

-99% of all misery is comparing yourself to others

-Dreamers-We want once of a lifetime people

-Dreaming is the first step of creating

-No eyeball rolling.

-The most courageous thing we can do in our culture is take 1 hour a day and think.

-Go into companies and rediscover their soul.

-The church is the ultimate master idea.

-Skepticism kills ideas. Wonder creates them.

-Some ideas are clearly bigger than others. (Master Ideas)

-Wonder could be taught at the church, instead of curriculum.

-The idea of love is so huge.