Don’t Toss Your Ideas Aside, Plant Them!
You’ve gotten clear on the overall objective for your life and business. You’ve analyzed your ideas based on how soon you need to generate revenue and the resources, time and energy you have available to invest.
Let’s say you’ve narrowed down three ideas that fit the best. You’ve selected one that you’re going to act on now while you’re feeling a burst of productive energy. The other two align and you love them, but you don’t have the time, energy or resources for them.
Don’t throw them away. Put them on your master list. Doing so is like putting seeds in the ground. You’ll be amazed at what happens when you do this with your ideas. When I first started IdeaMarketers.com, I created it to promote experts — talented people I believed in. I even put up a site that featured a few of these people. But within a few weeks, I quickly discovered I didn’t have the traffic to make this site work the way I wanted it to.
So when the idea for an article directory came along, I took the domain and used it for that. In time, over the course of a decade, that site became an ideal place for me to promote experts. That is what it’s about today. So even though the idea took the back burner for a time, and I even forgot about it for a spell, it still came to fruition when the time was right.
Write your ideas down. I found an old list when I was cleaning my office a few years ago. On the list was a goal to write a book that was sold on the shelves of a particular bookstore. The list got filed away in a cabinet, and I didn’t think about it. By the time I found the list again, the goal had been accomplished. Today I’ve had several of my books sold on that bookstore’s shelves.
So write your ideas down! Writing them is part of “planting them.” If the time, resources and energy aren’t available now, one day they will be. Trust that it will happen in a very organic, natural way that is for your highest good. Don’t try to force things outside their time or season. Let them happen organically by taking what actions you can and trusting the pathway will open up for you in the perfect time and way.
I’d love to hear your experiences! Have you had an idea that you weren’t ready to implement, but wrote it down, and found that the people and resources started gathering?
About Marnie Pehrson Kuhns
Marnie Pehrson Kuhns is a Certified SimplyAlign Practitioner™ who uses music and creativity to mentor you past barriers, fears and doubts to discover, create, align with, and deliver your soul’s song (the mission, message or purpose you are on this earth to live). Marnie is a best-selling author with 31 fiction and nonfiction titles. If you'd like Marnie and her husband Dave to work with you personally on Your Great Reinvention, get a FREE 20-minute strategy session with Marnie here.
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Marnie, perfect timing for this post to come into my life! I’ve been searching for creative ways to overcome my current situation, which includes an extreme loss of income, complicated by chronic illness and disabilities.
I’ve been challenged by a supported employment advocate to come up with 5 products that I could sell, using only materials that I have on hand. In that process, I’ve had inspirations that simply can’t be followed at this time.
Your post reminds me that I don’t need to toss those ideas/inspirations; that they are still possibilities. I not only have a challenge to meet, but a garden to plant! And just having that image in my mind is, I think, generating inspiration for some art journaling and collage too- hooray!
I’m so glad it helped Marta! Keep on growing that garden! 🙂
Marnie, the comment showing as being from Marta Hanna is actually from me. My daughter used my computer and didn’t sign out of Google when she was done. I wasn’t able to delete my comment and my computer is still showing that this is posting as her.
My apologies!!! I hope it’s okay to put my info here, but will understand if you delete this.
My email is creativeartitude at hotmail dot com and my blog is http://creativeartitude.blogspot.com
Thank you for a wonderful article!
Cynthia
No problem. I can relate to the kids getting on your computer. I’ve posted as my 12-year-old son to facebook before… not realizing it. LOL