I have million of ideas per day. I day dream a lot and that’s one of my biggest strengths. It’s also my biggest weakness (but I already covered that). My thoughts usually oscillate around what I can do with Japana and Untrite to grow those more.
Today, for example, I thought about recording a video podcast and calling it The Conversation Dinners. It wouldn’t be so much a simple conversation as a meeting of minds. Ideas clash or brain fuck, if you will. It would be recordings of mixture of different people conversing on specific subjects over good food.
Besides, it used to be a “thing” in Poland. It was, however, called Thursday Lunches and these were gatherings of artists, intellectuals, architects, politicians and statesmen held by our (Poland’s) King – Stanisław II Augustus during the Enlightenment in Poland.
As an idea, it would be an awesome addition to subtle relation to Japana as kitchenware. But is it doable today? Not really. Is is what the company needs now? Not really. What I need is our team’s (including myself) direct focus on sales and figuring our ideal customer for our new brand proposition. (We’re steering away from distribution towards our own branded kitchenware).
So off it goes to my idea list.
Don’t complicate your stuff. Don’t be like me. Be smarter 🙂
But keep those ideas coming, write them down and then sleep on them. If you’re equally excited about a particular idea the next day, and the day after, then you should probably start doing something about it. If not, it was nevertheless a great thought exercise.
Most people let their ideas slip into oblivion. They discard them as something silly. But you should write everything down.
I use for it simple Notes on my Mac and if I don’t have a computer with me, I use my physical notebook. You will see that majority of successful keep their journals (depending of course on what do you define as success, but for me it’s most entrepreneurs who build big businesses from scratch).
I am those people who get really excited about the conceptualisation stage and want to kick off implementing ideas into action immediately. My problem is that it’s too many of them. And most of them are either unachievable (with the resources you have available), unprofitable or won’t bring much value. That’s actually closely related to profitability. If someone is willing to pay for you bringing that idea into reality, then it is valuable.
If you really like some idea and want to explore it further, you first need a reality check:
- Is is doable with resources I have today?
- Can I test it without “building it”or spending too much time and other resources on it?
- Am I really passionate about this or it’s just something I find cool?
But first, write that shit down. Make it a habit. You will see that soon you will start producing better and better ideas. And if you’re seeking for one to start a project, it will eventually find you.
