If you have been a reader here at Quixoting you know that this site is about encouraging you to take action on your ideas. My historical malady may be yours. I spent years creating ideas and logging them into my idea book. A book that only I read and only I reflected upon.
Hey, at least I had the ideas and wrote them down, right?
I used to think that was good enough. Now I know the truth. That having ideas is 25% of the value. The rest comes in sharing, building upon and implementing your ideas.
Only then do you feel the excitement of innovation and creativity. Even if people don't love them . . . or even like them.
So now I am sharing my ideas with you on this blog and on my Tim's Strategy blog (job search strategy and psychology) and website. "So what's the big deal?" you might ask. Isn't this just an online journal vs. a paper journal?
The difference is that the ideas are being shared with the world in the most global way possible. They are now out there - available for supportive feedback, blistering criticism or no response at all. Quixoting, in a way, is my own online incubator. A place to learn, once and for all, whether these ideas were interesting quirks of my brain or real, sustainable ideas. Ones that could drive growth for me or someone else.
The cool discovery is that I now have an ongoing, living canvas where I can drop my ideas and let them grow. Either deep roots . . . or mold.
Either is OK. Because by sharing them I value them. And, in turn, value myself.
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