This is really what it’s all about folks. This is where heroes are made and hearts are broken. More than anything else, without having your head screwed on right you have no chance of success.
They are everywhere; they are all around you. They will work to shave the jagged edges from your ideas. And it is those very edges that make your ideas unique, that make them cry and sing. Don’t give in to those who belittle the power of your ideas. A person with a great idea is a unique individual. Be that individual!
Focus on your goal and do not be dissuaded by limitation thinkers who cannot even imagine other ways of doing things; their disease is contagious.
There is a tremendous little book I read for the fist time many, many years ago. It is Og Mandino’s, The Greatest Salesman In The World. It is available on Amazon here. I have reprinted the passage below the following image with permission from LifeTime Books.
“I will persist until I succeed.
I was not delivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.”
You have a responsibility to use your great ideas of moment and purpose to benefit mankind. To do less is tantamount to cheating the world of your power to bring about meaningful change. I don’t care what the topic of your product is. It could be about building doll houses, collecting seashells, building dog houses–but your ideas can change the world. They can have an impact on how people live their lives.
Whatever you choose to write about, do it with passion–with a grit and honesty that will make you stand apart from the herd of non-thinking automatons that surround you. I expect nothing less from you; I demand that you do this!