You had one of those conversations, right. where you just have THE perfect idea for a business, application, software product, website (add your thing here)?
Did you do it? Did you take the conversation from “Wouldn’t it be ace if…” to actually doing what you thought would be ace?
I’m going to take a pretty big guess that, for most of you reading this, the answer was no.
Why not?
Not enough cash? Not enough time? Ah, it wouldn’t have worked? Big ideas are for other people?
You disappoint me. I often disappoint myself for having the same conversations.
But why? No, honestly, why?
All of the above suggested answers are bull, and we both know it. You can change the world, so stop talking about it and start doing it.
You think you’re less able than a bunch of university drop outs? Well, that’s who created Facebook. And Apple. And Microsoft.
The core difference between an entrepreneur and you? They do it. You don’t.
Unless you’re thing is hardware, it costs less than $100 to get a website going, and you can program in your spare time.
Can’t program? Buy a book. Copy and paste it from examples on the hundreds of websites that are just dying to teach you. For free!
Don’t want to do a website, but a REAL application? Learn Basic to get a prototype up and running, Microsoft will even give you the tools for free. Hell, learn REALbasic and go multi-platform from the outset.
Don’t want to do a REAL application, but want to write a book? You have Word or Pages, right? No? You know each platform comes with a free text editor?
The excuses are endless, but the dirty little secret is: it doesn’t take money to get started, it takes a little courage and the ability to believe in yourself, now mix in your free time (you didn’t really want to sit on your sofa watching television anyway, did you?) and you’re set. If you start it, you’ll already be well ahead of the rest of 95% of the world that will never do it. After that, luck and skill kick in.
Whatever it is you want to do, don’t be put off by excuses that you make yourself. You don’t need permission. You don’t need money. You just need an idea that you believe in and the ability to get off your butt and do it.
Go do it, we need you to help make our world a better place.
Image Credit: Find The Idea by khalid Albaih flickr, used under creative commons with attribution license.
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