The Great Idea: Do Better Than Most People
March 18th, 2007 by Remon
The Great Idea is basically an idea that will or has become a great success. All of you, the readers of this blog, probably know someone who is waiting for The Great Idea so he or she can become wealthy and/or successful. Maybe you are that someone, maybe a friend or a familymember.
Waiting for The Great Idea
The problem with The Great Idea however, is that you keep waiting for it to hit you. A friend of mine, “John”, talks about wanting to start his own business everytime I see him. He is just waiting for The Great Idea before he is gonna take any action. It has been the same conversation for at least 3 to 4 years.
John: Remon I really want to start a business
Remon: Oh really? What kind of business?
John: I don’t know man, I need a great idea.
Remon: I see, what about <insert>?
John: No that’s not original, I need something new, something that doesn’t exist yet!
Remon: Ok… well I hope it will hit ya someday!
Dreamers
To be honest, most people waiting for The Great Idea are just dreamers. They dream of coming up with a great idea someday so they become wealthy and never have to work again! Dream on, I say. The odds of coming up with a real great idea are slim to none, and slim is out of town. You have better odds winning the lottery.
I think most dreamers are just making excuses for theirselves. If they keep telling theirselves that they’re waiting for that Great Idea they have a reason to take no action. The truth however, is that taking action is the first step to realizing your dream.
No need for The Great Idea
See, you don’t need a brand new, original, nonexisting idea to make money. You don’t need the whole pie, a piece of the pie is good enough. You don’t need a Great Idea, you need to get up and start taking action NOW. There’s no better time to start then now.
Starting something puts you one step ahead of most people and one step closer to living your dream. Take a pen and a piece of paper and start brainstorming what you would like to do. It could be something online or offline, in fashing, jewelry, music, animals, anything really! Just make sure you have a passion for it. It doesn’t matter if you know nothing about it, passion is enough. The knowledge will follow.
Once you figured out what you would like to do start thinking about how to come closer to that goal. Say you want to start your own clothing line someday. Working at wal-mart isn’t gonna help you, is it? Start looking for a job with potential, one where you can network with bigtime fashion people! Or at least, a job that has the option of doing that sooner or later. Once you have the right connections, you can start your business and market it to the right people.
Reaching a goal really isn’t that hard if you think about it. Just do it step by step. Maybe you want to be a successful internet marketeer. Instead of waiting for The Great Idea, something unique, start a website with a subject you can talk a lot about. Even if it only makes $5 a day that’s $1825 a year. While it isn’t much, it’s a start. Once you know what works and what doesn’t you start scaling. Build 10 or 100 of those sites or put all your effort in growing your current site, whatever you want.
Conclusion
Overall I’d say The Great Idea is something you shouldn’t be thinking about. You keep searching for something you’ll probably never find. Instead just take action, now, if you want to do better than most people waiting for The Great Idea. The Great Idea, if it hits, will hit you someday wether you have a job or are self-employed. The only reason for not starting now, is you being afraid to take a dive in the deep. Don’t be. If you do it step-by-step you’ll enjoy the freedom and benefits self employment gives you.