There’s something I’ve been struggling with for the longest time and here’s how it usually goes…
A beautiful, sparkling biz or content idea enters my mind. It “downloads” into my head and my heart.
I feel the rush of excitement and enthusiasm. I’m buzzing. Vibrating with positivity. I feel like I’m floating and I want to jump up and tell everyone about it!!!!
Then, my rational mind enters the picture and let me tell you my rational mind is a massive party pooper!
I start to think “strategically” and I wonder…
HOW am I going to get this program, collaboration, book idea etc, going? It’s going to be hard. I’m going to need this and that and that and the other…
And on and on it goes.
Almost instantly, my energy and my enthusiasm begin to wane. The excitement dissipates. It feels like air seeping out of a bright red, bobbing balloon.
Everything goes flat. Lifeless.
Next thing I know, my sparkling new idea gets pushed to the back of my mind or listed under “Ideas to Explore” in Evernote.
And let me tell you, I never, ever open that file in Evernote except to add fabulous new ideas that are never seen or heard from again.
Here’s what I’ve come to realize…
Ideas are like lovers. If you ignore them, if you set them aside for too long, if you overthink everything, guess what happens?
They walk away… for good!
Elizabeth Gilbert talks about this phenomenon in her brilliant book, Big Magic.
She tells the story of this amazing idea she had for a novel that was set in the Amazon jungle.
It was something she was deeply excited about but then a whole bunch of other stuff started to happen in her personal life.
So she set the idea aside thinking she’d get back to it but she didn’t… not until years later.
By then another great author – Ann Patchett — had received pretty much the exact same idea about a story set in the Amazon jungle.
Ann didn’t wait though. She wrote the book and it became a bestseller.
Now here’s the kicker… Elizabeth hadn’t said a word about her Amazon jungle idea to Ann.
Her brilliant idea had simply found someone else to be with, someone else who would bring it to life.
Basically, she lost her lover to Ann Patchett.
Our ideas come to us like magic and they’re with us for a little while. If we worry, fret, feel anxious or think too long and too hard about everything, they get tired of us.
If we ignore them and put them on the back burner, they don’t stick around… they go away and they never come back.
The secret to avoiding this fate? Give your fabulous ideas ENERGY!
Take one small step. Research for more information. Tell someone about it. Think of a name for it. List out the tasks you’d like to get done to bring it to life.
Do something, anything. Just take action. Then add an action to that first one and and add another and another.
Every day.
When you do that tiny spark of an idea inside your head will start to acquire a life of its own. The right people will appear. You’ll suddenly have a whole lot of mysterious help.
There’ll be serendipitous meetings and opportunities. You might think, “Maybe it’s a coincidence?” but deep down you’ll know it’s not.
The Universe provides. Always. Everything you see, hold and touch. They all began with a single idea.
So act on those beautiful ideas. You’ll never know where they’ll take you 🙂
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