Oct 18, 2005

If there is one thing I’ve learned about the world from my 23+ years of experience, it has got to be that “Talk is Cheap”. I get numerous “brilliant ideas” and hundreds of “lets do this together”. Generally when people say, “I’ve got a great idea…” It means, “I’m going to tell you this in hopes that you’ll make it happen and I’ll get rich from an idea.”

Brilliant ideas are worthless unless their implemented. If you have a brilliant idea and want to be rich from it, realize that you’ll never get rich from it, unless you are willing to implement the idea.

Enough ranting.

So, lets say you have a great idea. How can you take it to reality?

Let’s move past that, once you’re bringing an idea to reality, how do you foster the growth process?

Here are some things that I recommend. They are in no particular order and are all very important.

Having a “yes” person/group – This could be your wife, best friend, parent, or just someone that loves the idea. This person or group tells you how successful you’ll be one day, explains that you can do anything, or tells you why you deserve every reward you get. They keep you going because they never tell you about the sleepless nights, problems you’ll run into, or anything negative. They are 100% positive and are very crucial to continue your battle.

Ideas and Brainstorming Team– At any point, if you become complacent or come to some type of block, these are your people. These people understand that negativity is horrible to brainstorming. So, they play off of bad ideas. Why you say, “I want a product that cleans my house.” Instead of saying, “that idea is impossible.” They say, “It will have wheels with the ability to remember its path”. They are witty and usually don’t care about scientific, technical, or financial boundaries. All they know is they need to think out of the box.

Lists and Accomplishing Tasks – Creating lists is very motivating. Being able to make a list of all the things you have to accomplish allows you to calm down and prioritize your tasks. Marking through tasks once their complete allows you to see everything you have accomplished. When you create a to-do list, it is simply a goal list for today. Today’s to-do list should allow you to accomplish this month’s goals. This month’s goals should allow you to accomplish the quarter’s goals. This quarter’s goals should allow you to accomplish this year’s goals… and so on.

Delegating Responsibility – When you go to sleep and wake up to hear that someone just closed a deal for you, it picks you up for weeks. Knowing that you can be twice as efficient because you’ve delegated some responsibility to someone else, allows you to focus on what you do best.

With these things, I hope you can continue whatever goals you are trying to accomplish.