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Idea Discovery: Article – The 12 Things That Successfully Convert a Great Idea Into a Reality

Make your IMPACT(c) … one idea at a time! Here's my Idea Discovery for today to help you do just that. I really enjoyed this article pertaining to ideas and entrepreneurship – “The 12 Things That Successfully Convert a Great Idea Into a Reality” by Glenn Llopis, contributor at Forbes.com. When it comes to turning your ideas into reality, so much of it is attitude as you’ll read here. I hope you all enjoy it and share it as well. My goal is to serve you with resources and strategies that help you clarify, organize, and implement your…

Decisions, Decisions: It’s Idea Madness!

“March Madness” is the period of the annual NCAA college basketball tournament, with the majority of the competition set in March. Fans and followers use a visual chart as a decision tool to track team plays and statistics throughout the tournament. The tool identifies team pairings as brackets that show who plays whom at each stage of tournament progress. Such an organized chart is effective as a visual tool for keeping track of the details involved in deciding on which teams to focus as the winners of each round of play winnow down to the final championship team. We can…

Idea Discovery: Website – We Rock Your Web

One of the most difficult aspects of putting our ideas into action is the time it takes to research tools available to us, and the overwhelming access to tools we can use. If we're technology immigrants rather than technology natives, then implementing our ideas using technology is overwhelming in and of itself. I found this resource that seems to offer unbiased (by the researcher/reviewers anyway!) and thorough reviews of a variety of web-based and digital tools. It looks to be a Consumer Report(TM)-type resource for web and digital tools. The dates of their research publications are clearly displayed so that…

Look Back to Move Forward

You are more certain to succeed with implementing your ideas when you develop a strategy for doing so. One way to determine your implementation strategy is to work backwards. Determine your end result – what does your world look like when your idea is fully implemented? Then work backwards, identifying milestones along the way that must be in place in order for the next milestone to take place. For example, I have an idea for a craft project. Working my way backwards to create my implementation strategy I identify the following milestones: (9) End result (idea completed) = the finished…

Power of Community

How do you define "community"? Is it the houses or apartments in your neighborhood? Is it the people in your neighborhood? Is it the people who support you personally and professionally? Is it "yes" to all of these? I'm writing about the later in this article – the people who support you personally and professionally. These are folks with whom you can collaborate to help you make your ideas reality and who can support you when you need support emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually. You may have two separate support systems – personal and professional. Some of the ways in…