Building more ideas, part VII - The roof

It might be a while before you get to adding the roof, but I'm including it here for the sake of completeness.

When you've been practicing the system for building ideas outlined below, I guarantee you'll have more ideas. It will be great. You'll be on an idea high. But then you'll have a new problem.

You'll have so many ideas, you'll lose focus. All these amazing things to implement and no time to do all of them. This is when you have to add the roof to your idea building.

What's the roof? Pick and prioritize.

Take all your ideas, write them down, pick the top 5 or 10 or whatever is doable, and let the rest go for now. Save them in your idea file and come back to them later. When you get new ideas, add them to the file, but continue to focus on the top 5 until one is complete. Then pick a new one.

Having a lot of ideas, but never acting on any of them is like a rich person who never spends any money. What is the use of dying with $5 million in your bank account? Why did you work hard and save for all those years and never enjoy at least some of the fruits of your labor?

The goal is not to be the person who has the most ideas, but the person who does the most with them.

Building more ideas, part VI - Fourth Support

By now, if you've been following along and building your idea machine, you should be seeing some noticeable results. You're getting more ideas.

The last support in our system is Generosity. Now that you have a bunch of ideas, don't hoard them.

There will be a time when you come up with something really grand, but you don't feel the time is right. Or you don't want to share it with someone else because you're afraid they'll get all the credit.

Don't listen to thoughts like these. The timing is never right, everyone will always try to steal your ideas, and all the other excuses you might have for not sharing ideas will be valid too. Let it go. Tell people about your ideas. Act on them. Don't wait.

Ideas that are hoarded will wither and die. Ideas that are shared will snowball.

Do you have any ideas you can let go of?
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