Making time to have time
In the world of innovation, we face that our personal most limited resource is time. As the day runs, we have conversations all around the day, that provide us with a lot of new ideas that can be done, while we have a very clear set of actions that we need to pursue to achieve the goals that we schedule for our regular activities.
The most innovative people reserve some amount of time to pursue their dreams and have time to do activities that are not related to the regular commitments. Discipline is a key element to use the reserved time for innovations, sometimes to explore new things, sometimes to converge ideas and provide the needed shape to make these ideas feasible to be converted in useful results. Now, managing this reserved time, also it has a lot of challenges. The list of new ideas never ends; the innovative people need to be smart to assign the limited time to make all the things that they would like to do.
It is here, where the creativity comes to play in our side. How can we do to make all the things we want to do? It is time to explore ways of managing our time. We can be an individual contributor, we can be a promoter, we can be a mentor or advisor, and we can be sponsor. Any of these options allows us to be involved in a different way to shape ideas into useful results.
Working as a individual contributor you have the pleasure to make things by your self, while integrating teams in different shapes is another story when you can provide leadership, you can provide your knowledge to develop ideas, people or projects. Is in this mode, when you are able to multiple your time by leading ideas and bringing people to help you achieve collectible the results that you are looking.
Been part of a team that you assemble to create things is an exceptional way of doing things, get rewards and provide fuel with little of your time and produce a result than without your help could never happen.
Think about your ideas, once you identify which ones worth to pursue, then elaborate a first draft how they can be converted into results, start thinking how that things can be done by other with your direction, help and support. It is the way that great people are able to make so many things happen.