It’s all your fault.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
Your brain has been providing you with life-changing ideas all along and you have just been ignoring them. Not even giving them a second thought.
Big ideas. Like “the next big thing” ideas. Ideas worth millions, even billions of dollars, and you just brushed them off because you thought “it will never work.” Me too.
For instance, remember back in 1995 when you thought “wouldn’t it be great if you could just jump in someone else’s car and have them take you wherever you wanted to go, like on-demand.”
Or that time in 2003 when you thought “wow, look at that amazing house. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to live that person’s life for just a few days. Wake up with that view. Have an amazing kitchen like that. Swim in that ridiculous pool without having to buy that house.”
Yep. Crazy, right? You had those ideas, but you didn’t do anything with them. You thought it was too crazy, just a pipe dream and nobody would go for it. You couldn’t make something like that into a reality.
Well, Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp had that crazy idea several years later when stuck in Paris without a ride. Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia also had that crazy idea when they needed a creative way to make rent in San Francisco. Once a “crazy idea” and now a reality.
And those are just two out of who knows how many other ideas your hippocampus gave you that you ignored. All your life, your brain has been quietly sending you amazing thoughts, ideas, that you let someone else take to market because you couldn’t fathom that you could make it happen.
But someone else could, and they did.
So what is the difference between them and you besides now they are worth millions and you, well, you are not……yet?
The difference is self-confidence. Someone else had enough self-confidence to put themselves out there and sell an idea that no one else had tried before and did it so passionately and with such commitment that today it is no longer even considered a disruptor of the social norm, it is now just a norm. Crazy right?
You can make excuses by saying, sure Kristen, but they had all the resources. Even if true, they were still crazy ideas. Crazy ideas that they believed in enough, became so passionate about, obsessed even, to create a plan and execute, and kept putting one foot in front of another until their dream became a reality.
You can make excuses, we all do. You can tell yourself you don’t have the money, the right connections, the time is not right, people will never go for it.
You can keep telling yourself this, because it is easier to tell your hippocampus to mind its own business. Or, you can change your mindset, and start taking action.
Believe in yourself and all you can accomplish.
There is no difference between you and them. We are all just people with great ideas. They just believed in their ability to make it happen more than you.
So what crazy idea did you just have yesterday that may become the next norm? Will you be the one that takes it to market? You should be, it was your idea.
***And let me remind you to believe in the phenomenon that occurs when you combine desire, faith, and simple planning to catapult yourself into the realm of all things possible.
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