Making Ideas Happen

Posted on January 21, 2010 | 0 comments

Today I saw that someone on Facebook had posted a link to a video by Seth Godin.  I like Seth and I follow his blog because, for me, he has a lot of interesting things to say about marketing and innovation.  So I clicked on the link and watched the video.

The video was on a website called the99percent.com and the site’s tag line is “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen”

Wow! What a powerful website with some great tips and suggestions on making things happen! TED is about big ideas and 99 Percent is about making them happen!  Do yourself (and your family) a BIG favor – for the next week, disconnect your TV and just watch videos and read articles on these two websites! (If any of you take me up on that challenge – let me know in the comments!)

So I’d like to share Seth’s video with you here.  Although his presentation is geared at a corporate audience and he talks a lot about “shipping” (which is tech industry speak for sending a new product out to the marketplace), the exact same principles can be applied to the CREATE phase of Choosing The Life You Want.

His main point is that we don’t suffer from a lack of creativity (or a lack of CHOICES in the language of CTLYW) but that we get paralyzed by our fears and never actually get down to the business of CREATING! He offers some interesting strategies for avoiding this.

So what steps are you going to take today in the area of CREATING?