How To Turn Your Idea Into A Reality
How To Turn Your Idea Into A Reality
How To Turn Your Idea Into A Reality
Not Just An Idea
As you know, once upon a time the car and motorbike were just clever ideas. So too was the wheel, for that matter. Of course there was a time when things like space travel, the internet, Facebook, the Harry Potter series and even mundane things like long-life milk were just wacky concepts floating around in the minds of some very creative and clever people people who identified a need or opportunity and came up with an idea. A concept. A possibility.
A potential something.
A Business Idea
I remember having an idea to open Australia's first Personal Training centre in 1987. Of course, I didn't invent PT but at that time there were no such places in this country (stand-alone commercial PT facilities). In my mind, the idea seemed to be a good one. The business itself took a few years to materialise we opened the doors in 1990 but nonetheless, despite my lack of skills, experience and maturity, we got the job done.
The idea in my head became a physical reality and we went on to train thousands of people and give jobs to hundreds of people over more than two decades. For me, the creating-a-business process was a terrifying, euphoric, educational and transformational one. Despite my (mildly) academic background, I have always been an experiential learner. That is, I learn best when I'm thinking less and doing more. And now, every day when I walk into Harper's (my PT centre) to do my daily workout, I walk into a 10,000 square foot physical representation of what was once a simple non-physical idea in my head. An idea, by the way, that many people said wouldn't work.
Pfft.
More Ideas
I went through a similar process when I decided to write my first book. It was yet another idea. One of many. Like you, I have plenty. In fact, it was more than that. I had an incredibly vivid mental concept of what my book would look like, read like and achieve when it was done and that was before I had typed my first word. Once I knew what I wanted to do, I simply sat at my computer and started writing despite the fact that I wasn't a writer' (I figured all writers must write their first book at some stage). And despite the fact that I didn't have a publisher or any clues about how publishing worked. Despite the fact that I'd never written anything longer than a gym program. Despite the fact that my typing speed was an electrifying eight words per minute. And despite the fact that I was working eighty to ninety hours per week running my business.
For me, the sense of achievement in writing a book came mostly from seeing the finished product in my hand for the first time. Sure, it's nice to sell books and for the original idea to become a commercial success but I've always gained the most satisfaction from doing what I set out to. From turning my mental something into a physical something.
A Weight-Loss Idea
As a teenager, I had one constant idea: lose weight.
It dominated my thinking. After having the idea thousands of times, I had an experience that flicked my action switch. Of course, I always had the potential to lose weight and transform my body and reality but, for a range of reasons, I didn't. Finally, the idea became a reality. I stopped thinking and started doing. I wanted it enough.
A Stupid Idea?
Of course, there was a time when this blog, this electronic-pit-stop of inspiration, motivation and education was nothing more than an idea. A concept. And, I must be totally honest; it wasn't even my idea. It was Johnnie's (my business partner). He ran the idea past me and I must admit, I wasn't excited about it. At all. I possibly even thought the idea sucked.
So, being the stubborn f*cker that he is, he ignored my lack of enthusiasm, walked out the door and, over the following two days, created a mock website (blog) complete with some articles that I had written (for magazines) and a few well-chosen pictures. Forty-eight hours later he walked into my office with his laptop (with that smarmy look on his face) and said "I want you to take a look at something".
Five minutes later I was a blogger.
Okay, I never said I was clever. And I never said I had a monopoly on the good ideas. Sometimes in life, success or failure comes down to what we do or don't do with our ideas.
What's your idea?
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