How to aces the gold mine inside yourself
The Power of Impractical Ideas
When thinking about success in life, I asked myself what is the
main thing that has held me back. If you had to trace all your
major successes and failures, what is the one thing that you
feel caused the difference between succeeding and failing?
If you really look deep inside yourself, you will realise one
surprising thing. It is: you have probably had many ideas on how
to improve your life. If you are anything like me, though, you
probably never made a start on most of them!
Why is this? The reason, of course, is that we dismiss most of
our ideas as impractical, unworkable and impossible. "This idea
would work if I had capital, time and business ability" or
"People like me should not think of impractical ideas like
this." You get the idea....
When thinking about verysuccessful people, one thing stands
out.....a lot of these people risked and even failed a lot
before they succeeded. Thomas Edison apparently made over 1000
failed attempts to create the electric lightbulb. Not once
though did he dismiss the idea as impractical or impossible. He,
of course, eventually did it.
Another example is the life of Sir Richard Branson, owner of
Virgin. After high school he decided to start a mail-order
record company. His 2 close friends thought he was crazy, but
had nothing better to do! They are now directors in Virgin, and
are thanking their decision to go along with Sir Richard's
"impractical idea".
A lot of modern life is run by things that were formerly thought
of as impractical. Television, computers, the internet. Even a
simple thing like a car manufacturer coming out with a new car
is impractical. Why should the manufacturer spend millions when
there are so many cars already on the market?
Why do we not follow up on our own "impractical" ideas? The main
reasons are probably fear and inertia. Inertia in the sense that
we either stick to what is safe, or want to accomplish a huge
goal all at once. Very successful people do not think like this.
They back their ideas, and are not afraid to put in time to
accomplish these ideas.
If you have an idea that could work given time, perhaps you and
I should ask ourselves: " Is it really as impractical or
impossible as it seems?''
You might surprise yourself and do that which you always wanted
to do.
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