I have an Idea….

Empower to Excel – 60 Days Challenge

Day – 56

Too many of us over value our ideas.?

Ideas are like butterflies, Excitedly whispering in any ear that’s willing to listen.

On one hand where it is important that we eagerly listen to these ideas that we get for us to taste success, but let’s be very clear the idea alone has no value at all.?

It is those who move to execution, that really understand that an idea only matures once u start to work on it?

It’s just the starting point and where you end up maybe a completely different place.?The job of the idea is just to get you excited enough to get you started, After that it all depends on how you nurture it.

According to Rod Serling, “Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you either witness or have heard about translated into your brain in your own sense of dialogue in your own language form. Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized. Ideas are probably in the air like little tiny items of ozone. That’s the easiest thing on Earth is to come up with an idea. Then the second thing is the hardest thing on Earth is to put it down.”

What happens when you miss these ideas or don’t take them seriously when they come your way….?

you regret when we see your idea being executed by someone else because you didn’t have the courage, and believe me this is a sad place to be in - choose differently today.

Regardless of where the idea come from, the important thing to get from this is that if you have an idea, you have to do something with it or risk losing it to someone else.?

The idea is important, in and of itself, but what you do with it may be even more important, for you personally and for the world at large.?

So,??what do you do when you get an idea.

Here are 5 steps to taking that idea and putting it to work for you.

1. Make a Record

The moment you feel an idea popping up, could be in your mind or in your ears. Take a deep breath, listen to it carefully, repeat it to your yourself ensuring you understand it clearly, now pen it down, or just record it somewhere where you feel you can find it later.?I like to draw diagrams. This could be as simple as one word, two or five words, the first words that comes to your mind when you think of the idea. The words you write or diagrams you draw do not have to make any sense at this stage. Writing your ideas down on paper is a powerful manifestation tool. It tells your mind that this idea is now ready to take form from etherical to physical. It starts the process of shaping your ideas.

The idea may turn into a beautiful reality or may not be anything meaningful, but that you will only know when you note it when it comes and work on it later.

So, never miss any idea that the butterfly sings into your ears.

2. Make a Decision

Whenever you are free, say towards the end of the day or during weekends, re-visit all the ideas that you have noted since you last visited them. Re-evaluate them carefully. The ideas which come knocking right on your face, attend them first. Any of the ideas which might seem as not important or those which you feel have no meaning, keep them in a separate draft folder. NEVER DELETE them, they have come to you from the universe for reason and you never know when they would materialise into beautiful realities, so just keep them there and keep re-visiting them once a while.

3. Visualize

To bring forth an idea from imagination/spirit to physical reality, brainstorming is not enough. Allow yourself to visualize in your mind images of what your idea invokes in you. Just lay on your bed or sit comfortably in a chair and just think of your idea. Allow yourself to fantasize and daydream. Let your mind drift. What images come to mind? What do you see? What you see will help construct your idea in the physical world. Write everything down on a notepad.

ASK Questions?: To help with the process of brainstorming and visualization, ask yourself open-ended questions such as “How can I bring this idea to pass?” “What is the next logical step for me to take?” etc. Again ponder, meditate, take notes.

As you go through each step, you will notice that you will be guided step-by-step to take actions and weave the webs of your idea into concrete metamorphosis. Mix both logic, intuition and imagination. Allow the idea to grow through you.

4. Make a Plan?

Now for all those ideas which you have identified and you wish to take them forward, pull them out and evaluate them. See what you can do with them and make a plan. Once you feel you have a clear plan, make a strategy.??Put the strategy down on paper.?

You may not have all the materials; you may not even know how to start. By making a strategy, you can take a big idea and make it easier to accomplish.?

Write down what you know, what you need to know, what you have and what you need to get.?

Ensure you have a launch date attached to it?

Remember, Plans materialise Only then you have something concrete to focus on every-day.

According to Benjamin Franklin, “if you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.”

5. Make It Work

Once you have a strategy, get started. Make the first mark on the paper or canvas, attach the first boards, do whatever it takes to get started. You may have to adjust on the fly, or change your methods midway through the project, but that’s part of the creative process.?

The hard part will be not giving up when something goes wrong or the original idea doesn’t work.?

Challenge for today –?

1.?????Record every single idea / thought that pops up in your mind / ears today. Give yourself 1 Point for every single idea that popped up and you made a note of it. If you get no ideas at all, mark yourself a zero. Now, visit this list every Sunday and see your score. See how well you have done. If you have a higher score celebrate it. Do not worry whether the ideas will work or not, celebrate for paying heed to the ideas. Just remember, you never know which of these ideas may become your beautiful reality tomorrow. Now, just Celebrate for listening to yourself. Repeat this next week and see how you develop your thought process. As you continue to do it daily, you will realise it slowly becomes a habit, a ritual.?

2.?????If you are already working on some idea, some project, Type below - name of your project and by when do you plan to launch it - just announcing it makes you 78 % more likely to do it?

Do u have the courage to put it here?come on … Allow us to bless your endeavour?

To your success

Meenakshi Roy

Futurezen Lifestyle Academy

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