Your Idea Can Work
“Once you’ve thought through your idea and believe in it, everything else is just logistics.”
It's brewing inside you. That idea to make people's lives better.
So, what's stopping you from making it happen? You may feel confused about how to proceed. Or afraid you can't pull it off.
I want you to believe you can do it. Let me explain:
A few years ago, my son invited me to visit him in Silicon Valley. I walked around in awe seeing companies and billionaires who had changed my life.
There, and in other hotspots of innovation, taking an idea and making it into a world-changing reality is commonplace.
What do they possess that you don't? They have a repeatable framework that takes their project from idea to market.
Here is a model used by successful start-ups. Use it to complete your dream project:
“A start-up or startup is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable economic model.”
One start-up model is:
Seek
Develop
Validate
Scale
Let's apply this to your endeavor.
Seek
You have a good idea. But there is a precursor to making it happen: belief.
I had a client who needed exactly one session with me to get unstuck and create the life he wanted. He felt different, more extensive than his environment. He felt dissatisfied and wanted more.
The problem was, no one understood him. As his anxiety and longing grew, he sought the counsel of a therapist who promptly quashed all his dreams and told him that he suffered from delusions of grandeur.
Wait. What?
"No," I said. "You can do it."
Overcoming our self-doubt is the first step in creating something different and meaningful. But, like my client, many of us live in situations where no one else understands our vision.
You can increase your belief by looking for proof that your idea can work—by researching people who developed ideas that were far above what people could imagine at the time. Do a Google search of inventors, watch Elon Musk and Steve Jobs biographies, or study the masters who ushered in new movements.
Develop
Once you've thought through your idea and believe in it, everything else is just logistics.
What separates the delusional from those who accomplish their goals is this: they do the work.
I understand: building out your project can be arduous work. You just have to take it one step at a time.
Here is how to do it:
Lay out the possible steps. You can use post-it notes on a window or use an idea-gathering app.
Re-arrange and add to the steps. As you collect information, you will have an infinite amount of tasks and sub-tasks.
Make a time-line. Starting with an end-goal in mind, create a time-line of when you want things done.
Assign action items. Whether it is yourself or with a team, break down tasks into daily things to do.
Remain flexible because things will change all the time.
Validate
If you do something that has not been done before, you can't possibly know everything needed to get it done. Go into your project not knowing and with a curiosity to learn as you go. Mis-steps and failures are part of the process.
Once you've set in place your time-line, the action items will change as you collect more data along the way. Be flexible, yet stay determined.
You can set weekly reviews to analyze data on what has worked and what hasn't. And know that daily, sometimes hourly, you will encounter new ideas, challenges, and problems that will require pivots.
Scale
By developing and validating your project, the components you want to keep will become more apparent. You'll also see which parts you want to get rid of.
The refined project is what you'll take to market.
Silicon Valley endeavors may need to scale so that they achieve worldwide dominance. But the concept applies if you want to sell a single painting: you have to talk someone into buying it.
You have to get your shiny new product in the hands of the audience who needs it. Which can elicit all the self-doubt you felt when you started. But again, remember that it's just engineering a plan. And to do this, you will use this framework all over again.
I guarantee that the journey in and of itself will grow you. Don't be afraid you can't. You can. And you will be amazed at the people who join you along the way.
Join the discussion and comment below! I believe I can change my corner of the world, do you? What will you do today to move your project forward?
Tami Green, America's Most Respected Life Coach, inspires others to believe in themselves and helps them sustain the effort needed to make their dreams a reality. You can schedule a coaching session with her here.
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