What Are Your Ideas Worth?
A case for the supernatural.
If your mind can conceive it, then your hands can achieve it.
Are there people who become billionaires based upon ideas they think about? Oh, yes!
And are there people who remain in stark penury regardless of the multimillion dollar ideas that come to them every single day? Abso-freaking-lutely!
Do you know the difference between the two of them? Actions, decisions, and lack of it.
What are your ideas worth? They could be worth a million dollars, or they could be worth zero cent. It all depends on what you decide to do with them.
If you are an active and thinking human, at the very least, you will get one idea in a day, or say in a week. A problem to solve, a cause to pursue, a challenge to live upon, an opportunity to seize, you name it, and do you know why these ideas come to you from time to time, say in a single day, multiple times in a single week? It is because you can do something about them, no matter how tiny what you do is, no matter how insignificant you think what you do will be on a larger scale, the truth is, you can do something about them.
The ideas come to you because you can do something about them.
What are your ideas worth? They are worth what you do with them.
If the only thing you can do with your ideas is think about them, that's the only thing they will be worth; thoughts.
If the only thing you do with them is intend to take action, they will only be worth intentions.
If all you do is talk about them, that's all they will be worth; talk, and if you only talk about them long enough, someone else who's brave enough and recognises that he can do something about it will go on to do it and by then, your idea will become someone else's multimillion venture.
There are many reasons why people's ideas take different shapes and end up being valued at different levels.
Some people believe they are not worthy of doing such a great work. They don't feel smart enough, they don't feel righteous enough, they don't have the right esteem, and the idea in their minds almost seems like something that's not meant to be there. People like this go around talking about the idea, doing literally nothing about it, hoping someone who is ‘more worthy’ takes it off their minds so they can be free. These people are doing injustice to their genius.
I have heard tons of people say they don't have the resources to follow through on the idea. They don't have the money to establish the business on a large scale, they don't have the assets and capacity to solve the problem the way other people would want it solved. Hogwash!
Start with the 0.5% that you can do. Start manually! Start at the smallest of scales possible. If the idea came to your mind, it is because you can do something about it. It is because you're in a position to effect the tiniest of change in it.
If it is an idea that could potentially solve a problem for 100,000 people and you don't have the resources to reach 100,000 people, solve the problem for the one person in your compound!
Don't be bugged down with all the details of scaling when you haven't even solved the problem for your neighbour.
Charity begins in your closet!
Other people are just not brave enough. They haven't built enough strength of character to dare to do something they have never done before, and this is because they haven't whet their thoughts and eyes and mind with the stories of other people who have come from ground zero. They haven't paid attention to other people who objectified and materialised their ideas. They have been looking at the wrong things and not focused on the art of turning ideas into tangible materials.
If they have soaked themselves in the possibility of ideas becoming reality, they'd be a little braver, a little more courageous, and this would have propelled them into action, and action, when it is consistently done, grows into success and then a legacy is built.
My point is, the hot knife that separates ideas that are worth nothing and ideas that are worth millions is action! Deliberate, consistent, repeated, tiny action to solve the problem, to create the value, only if you are willing.
Ideas are supernatural. They are not yours forever. They have a life of their own. They come to you for a while because they believe you can breathe tangibility into them. If they stay with you for a while and see that you have done nothing with them, they go somewhere else. You don't own them.
Please read the previous paragraph again. Nothing comes into your mind unless it can come into your hands. If your mind can conceive it, then your hands can achieve it if you prove yourself worthy by taking action.
If your mind can conceive it, then your hands can achieve it.
If you think you aren't worthy, I promise you, nobody else is more worthy than you. The simple fact that the idea crossed your mind shows that the idea considered you worthy.
You have the resources to start at the smallest scale possible. Even the idea thinks so, that's why it came into your mind.
If your problem is courage, soak yourself in history. Watch and read about people who had even less than you do today and went on to achieve great things. There are people who did it in the past, many who are doing it today, and people who will do it after you have gone.
You are left with no excuse now. You can become a legend to the tune of what you turn your ideas into.
Will the ideas you have today be worth something in another 5 years? It is all up to the actions you decide to back them up with starting now.
To your growth,
Your Coach,
Abiola Okunsanya,
Handzinspired. ✨
Thank you for sharing!!!
Thank you, sir. 👏🏾