Stop for a moment.

Now think really hard. In a flash, how many great ideas can you come up with? One? A few? Several dozen?

Now, think about if, and that’s a BIG if, any of those brilliant ideas of yours came into fruition, how much major moolah would you make? How easy would life become for you? You can quit your day job and just collect royalties, year after year.

Astounding huh?

I mean, those ideas of yours don’t even have to be revolutionary! Think about the patent that merely adds wheels and handlebars to Rubbermaid coolers. What for? Just so guys can lug around that much more beer to their tailgate parties?

Or what about the “electronic toilet brush“?  Geeze, what are you doing to your toilet that requires a brush with a motor on it??

And don’t even get me started on the pet-rock, the Hawaiian Chair, the Chia-pet… And what about all the rave about bottling up everything in sight?! Bottled water, bottled air, bottled oxygen, the list goes on!

So how many brilliant and amazing ideas HAVE you come up with?

I bet quite a few right? And I’ll even wager that many of them are even better than many of the inventions you see today.

So then let me ask you something, pay attention.

How is it that those folks with those silly ideas (ideas that are certainly not as good, practical, nor desirable as yours) were/are able to make so much money off their one idea, while you are making none with yours?

What Must Follow an Idea: Execution

Get Off Your Lazy A**

Want to know what’s the difference between those who actually make money off of their ideas and those who make squat? In one word: execution.

That’s right. See, unlike what many of us are led to believe, ideas are NOT worth that much! I mean, sure you have to start with an idea, but that’s only a small portion of it. It’s what follows that will take you (and your idea) to greatness.

It’s the investment of time, effort, and perhaps even money… It’s the “get off of your a** and do something” factor that transforms your idea from just “an idea“  into reality.

“I Have an Idea.” (Yeahhh?  So What?)

It’s funny, I hear great ideas all the time. I hear them from friends and family; I hear them from associates. And they all tell me the same things to go along with their ideas:

1. “Don’t tell anybody else about this” (as if no one else had thought of it)
2. “I wish I had the money/time/energy to make it happen” (uh huh…)

And that’s about when I nod my head and smile, knowing that another idea in the sea of ideas generated daily by the 6.7 billion people that inhabit this planet, has just gone from “what could be” to “never will be“.

I’ve been there.

I remember when I thought it wise to hoard all my ideas for myself – thinking that there’s no way anyone else has thought of it or is thinking of it. I thought that what I hold onto in my head are worth millions.

Your Ideas are Worthless

Guess what? They are not worth jack.

Those ideas of yours? They are worthless!

It’s only when you go about implementing and executing will you even begin to wish for some returns; and even then that’s iffy.

It’s those who are able to execute with precision, deliberation, and speed who will make it big with the ideas of theirs.

So next time you have an idea, don’t hoard it thinking that if it stays in your head and your head only it’ll make you money. Instead, share it with your friends and family. Share it with those whom you trust.

That way not only will they be able to help you develop your ideas, they might even be able to help you make them into realities. And of course, by stating your idea to the universe, you are essentially holding yourself accountable – to the best of your ability. Now that you’ve said it, you gotta do it lest you appear the fool

Don’t just dream it, be it, and do it.

Raymond Fong