Like most people, I have ideas pop into my head which seem like they’re ZOMGAWESOME and will make me eleventy million pounds. Also like most people, I don’t take any steps to realise almost all of those ideas.
This year I want to try to realise more of them. While I’m pretty sure that none of them will make me an eleventy-millionaire, I’m hopeful that some of them will be financially profitable, some of them will be socially rewarding, and some of them will be interesting projects. Maybe even one of them will be all three!
My instinct is that the first thing I should do is write out all the idea fragments in my head, perhaps making use of a TiddlyWiki or two. I’m not going to do that just yet, though. Thinking back I’ve noticed that if I commit my ideas to the written word, I frequently lose interest in them. I’m not really sure why – maybe the act of documenting them is enough for me to feel I’ve expressed them, and implementation doesn’t matter? I don’t really know why this happens, but I do know that I need to follow through on some of these ideas and I can’t afford to go ‘blah’ on them just because I wrote stuff down.
By leaving the ideas in my head it’s harder to properly define them, and cool product concepts (like the two I just had in the shower) might be totally forgotten. But I’d rather lose out on a specific idea or concept if it helps to force me to implement enough of an idea to keep interested in working on it.
After all, the odds are that most of my ideas are crap – 90% of everything is crap – so it’s no great loss anyway.
If I actually follow through on any of this, I’ll post the results here. If 2010 is another year of under 20 posts, then I’ve probably not ‘realised’ many ideas. Either that or I’m too busy realising ideas to write about it, but that seems unlikely.
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