4 Ways to Prevent Good Ideas From Sabotaging Your Best Work
Don’t let your ideas prevent you from taking action
An idea — a brilliant idea mind you — pops into your head. This idea leads to more ideas and those ideas lead to you swimming in dollar signs.
Entrenched in your wealthy daydreams, you sit down to work.
“What should I do first?”
“Wait, how long is it going to take me to learn XYZ?”
“I need a giant whiteboard. Why don’t I have a giant whiteboard?!”
Flustered, you give up for the day. Maybe your brain just needs a rest. You’ll try again tomorrow.
Tomorrow arrives with more ideas and the process repeats itself all over again.
Soon, you’re left with a stack of ideas but nothing to show for it.
I know this situation all too well.
Ideas are fun. Ideas are sexy. But when it comes time to sit down and execute said ideas, we become overwhelmed.
It’s easy to see the end result without understanding the nitty-gritty it takes to get there.
But how do we do this?
How do we differentiate between good ideas and bad ones?
