| Life is short right. Well when you're young it doesn't seem that way. As we age the percentage of our lifetime complete compared to left to live changes and so does our perspective. TImes feels more finite. Meaning and purpose seem to take on a greater role in our daily activites and we want to make a meaninful difference in the world - I hope you are with me on this one? So if we are going to/want to make a meanful difference and we don't think it's exactly what we are doing right now we need ideas right? The definition of an idea is a formulated thought or opinion. In her best-selling book, Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert says that people don’t have ideas, that ideas have people. I love the idea of this. She explains using the metaphor of a butterfly. |  |
An 'idea butterfly' lands on someone's shoulder. If that person activates that idea - if they do something with it, it is theirs. If they don’t, the idea moves on and lands on someone else. For me, this is a wonderful way to explain how many ideas are shared by many people. Not to say that there are a limited number of ideas in the world but that it is possible for many people to think the same thoughts.
“Ideas have no material body, but they do have consciousness, and they most certainly have will. Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest. And the only way an idea can be made manifest in our world is through collaboration with a human partner. Ideas spend eternity swirling around us, searching for available and willing human partners."
I want to bust a myth you have all bought into. “It's NOT the thought that counts! It’s what you DO with that thought that really matters. Ideas are nothing until they are captured and shared. Until they are explored and explained.
Execution is where it's at and if you only have ideas then nothing will get done and thew world will miss out on your legacy or at least impact. So: think, collaborate, but most importantly DO....again and again and again.
Execution is where it's at and if you only have ideas then nothing will get done and thew world will miss out on your legacy or at least impact. So: think, collaborate, but most importantly DO....again and again and again.
