Good ideas are worthless unless you take action!

Good ideas, even great ideas, are plentiful! Talk to anyone and they can tell you how to make a better toothbrush or a better car. You name it and someone has a good idea for just about anything—even how to make your community better.

We often have the same good ideas. Ever watch late night TV and say to yourself, “Hey, I had the same idea.”

Since great ideas are everywhere, the key to making any changes or improvements is taking action. The difference between your idea and the one on TV is that some else took action.

Scott Belsky, in Making Ideas Happen, created an equation to illustrate the point.

Just having a great idea gets you nowhere fast. If you have a halfway good idea with a tiny bit of action, you get a good result. If you have a halfway good idea and you increase your action, the result can increase exponentially.

Belsky recommends we move to action quicker. We often spend a lot of time trying to come up with the perfect idea before we move to action. Act on your halfway good ideas now! Don’t wait.

Thomas Kincaid as an example of taking action on a halfway good idea. Kincaid is not Picasso, but he takes action and produces a product that people buy.

Shape and refine your ideas quickly and get them out the door. Take action as quickly as you can.

Heath Harding
Outlinc