I have more “great ideas” that I have time, energy, or money to bring to fruition. Any one that I commit to means giving up on a dozen others. Unfortunately for me, it’s often the case that none of them stands out as extraordinarily good in any way: not something that I feel more passionate about, not something I think will be more successful in the marketplace, not something I think will make the world that much better than any of the other ideas. Usually I just go on talking about them, working on them, until finally something clicks, but sometimes that never comes and I just finally have to pick one and do it. Sadly, that usually is an odd kind of funeral, as what results has never been that great. But personally it’s the only way I can get over it and move on. Still, I can see why some people never get to that point. It’s one thing to give your life over to your dream calling; it’s another to give it over to the idea you’re sort of excited about they way you were excited about getting a Christmas toy when you were a kid.

Just take the risk and whether you fail or succeed at least you know otherwise everything is in limbo.

Dont fear failure, fear regrets and never been able to fulfilling your dreams

Norm

Nice site Maya – Good luck with it!

At the end of the day, all there is is choice. Where you are is “here” and where you’re going is “there.” In the middle is a series of choices.

Damn the torpedoes! (Just in case you didn’t get enough worn out sayings).

I recently started to share the progress of my start-up. I revealed my idea at http://www.geekdance.com . It has only been good really. I had pangs about it, but revealing my idea has let to awesome and interesting input from so many people – it has been an amazing value-add.

I am pretty convinced that nobody is inspired by my idea the way I am – ideas are dime a dozen – but not the execution/inspiration.

I was a little nervous too – but I will now do this every time in the future. People can help only if they know what you are doing. Nothing will ever get done if we want to hold on to our ideas!

By the way Jonathon, I enjoy reading your blogs which I find insightful and full of sage advice. I will pick up and read over the holiday season your new book “Career Renegade”. I wish you and yours a happy holiday season!

By the way Jonathan, your blog sure looks nice and tidy now.

I’ve thought of ideas that have come to fruition, that everyone’s had. And the fact that I wanted to figure out how to protect ‘em in lieu of Doing Em…well, they didn’t get made by me.

Abundance. That’s the concept. If you believe that you’re a font of ideas, that each idea is precious but *not* scarce…you’ll have the generosity needed to collaborate, to make stuff that’s cool and to have a genuinely great time.