Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Idea hamster

I have a coworker who is an idea hamster. Everyday he's got another idea to make things better. In fact, he's go so many ideas that he doesn't know what to do with them all. So he doesn't...mostly. He's paralyzed by information, and choices, and chances. And by perfectionistic tendencies. His fear to date with most of his ideas is that he doesn't have the time to make them good enough to stamp his name on it. None of us want to release a poor quality product.

Right now, he's got the time (if he makes it) and certainly the talent to take any of his ideas to an incredible place. Yeah, he could make millions off one of them someday, or thousands of several, or nothing off any of them. You never know til you try.

They say that life is a journey, not a destination, and that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Well, in much the same way as my starting this blog, not knowing if I'd have enough, or too much, to talk about, or if anyone would actually read this (outside of my immediate friends and family), we all have to "leave the harbor, because a ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are for" -- or something like that. What I'm trying to say is that whether you're an idea hamster, or someone with a single fantasy that you keep putting off because you don't think you're ready for it -- GO FOR IT! DO SOMETHING! START! You can, and will, make it better, but if you don't have anything to make better because you didn't start, where are you?

Good luck man!

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