Talk, Talk, Talk…Thats All You Ever Do
So I hear you have a great idea. You claim that it will revolutionize your industry. You admit that your approach is unique. You boast that it will make you and your team rich. You gloat in the featureset that you will be offering your users.
So frikkin what. Your idea means nothing.
You haven’t taken a single step towards reaching your goal. You haven’t done any market research. You aren’t willing to make the time or spend the money necessary to see your idea become a reality. You have accomplished nothing.
Why haven’t you done anything?
Too busy with other work? Not willing to risk anything? Are you lazy? Are you scared?
Get off your butt and do something! Make the time, spend the money, take a risk, be the best…or shut up!
The key to making your idea a success is not the uniqueness of your idea (though that helps), its not the efficiency of your idea (though that helps), its not the revolutionary qualities of your idea (though that helps), its the implementation of your idea. Actually taking your idea and doing everything within your power to make it a success.
I’ll be the first to admit, I’m scared. My idea isn’t revolutionary, it isn’t all that unique, and it won’t make me insanely rich. I’m just afraid of it being successful. I’m afraid of the unknown. I came to this realization the other day after talking to my wife about one of my “wouldn’t that be cool” ideas, and it really irritated me. I plan on facing my fears here in the near future.
What’s your excuse?
on April 16th, 2006 at 9:33 am
I agree 100%. Talk is cheap — that’s why there’s so much of it. Telling everybody and his sister about your next Great Idea is, unless your doing some kind of weird marketing research, pointless. You should be Doing, not talking.