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If you’re a blogger, marketer, designer or any type of creative, your best ideas probably hit you when you’re not actively looking for them.  Rather, they strike when you’re engaged in another task, or sometimes quite randomly.  That is why it is vital to carry a pad and pen (or the digital variety) with you everywhere you go.

What happens to me in many cases is my best ideas strike while in the shower, driving my car, at the gym or while running/rock climbing/swimming — times when I can’t just stop what I’m doing and write down an idea (hey inventors, here’s an idea:  a water-proof white board for the shower).

Anyway while working out the other day, it struck me just how going to the gym is quite similar to blogging.  The analogy is as simple as:  going to the gym is good for your body, as blogging is good for your brain.

Think about it:

• People get equally excited about the ideas of blogging and going to the gym and start out strong thinking how easy this will be, however only a few push through the dip (133 million blogs since 2002, yet