In today’s society dot-coms and fortune 500 companies surround us. We see success at every corner, and many times, we wish we could have just come up with that idea that made a company rich a year earlier.
Even when it comes to dabbling in the stock market, we find that if we would have just taken the plunge a week earlier, we could all be rich by now. Speakers and books push us to “think outside the box.” However, thinking outside the box isn’t always the hardest part.
A lot of you have probably developed some great ideas over the years. Every great strategist has been sitting in their great room and had the light bulb go off in their head — maybe it’s that light bulb that spurred you to open your first club.
I don’t believe thinking outside the box is difficult for the typical entrepreneur. There is too much time spent focusing on the business at hand to not realize something inventive. However, what do you do when you come up with that inventive idea?
You probably bounce it off your partners, your wife or whomever you trust the most around you. You may even go as far as to do a little research on your idea. But, it’s what comes next that most people don’t see through.
Here is an example. When I was a younger, someone told me a story about Paul McCartney. You know, that guy that played in the Beatles? Apparently, Paul had spent an inordinate amount of time on a song. He had been singing it in the shower, playing it on the piano and just immersing himself in this song. But, the song wasn’t going anywhere.
Paul started calling his family and friends to play the song for them. He swore he had heard the song somewhere before. He knew that the song wasn’t his, but he didn’t know where it came from.
Out of all the great musicians around him that he shared the song with, no one had heard the song before, but they loved it. Eventually, Paul had to record the song and share it with the world.
“Hey Jude” was released to the world in 1968 as a single. Singles were the big thing back then. Maybe some of you remember that time.
Anyway, “Hey Jude” went platinum four times and is still considered one of the greatest Beatles songs ever recorded. Now, what if Paul had discarded the song as a bunch of rambling in his head? What if he wouldn’t have made a move on the idea that kept playing in his head?
Had Paul not taken a chance with a song he wasn’t certain of, we would have never heard of “Hey Jude.” The point being, don’t discard every idea that comes floating through your brain. Be confident enough in yourself as an entrepreneur to implement good ideas.
In today’s society dot-coms and fortune 500 companies surround us. We see success at every corner, and many times, we wish we could have just come up with that idea that made a company rich a year earlier.
Even when it comes to dabbling in the stock market, we find that if we would have just taken the plunge a week earlier, we could all be rich by now. Speakers and books push us to “think outside the box.” However, thinking outside the box isn’t always the hardest part.
A lot of you have probably developed some great ideas over the years. Every great strategist has been sitting in their great room and had the light bulb go off in their head — maybe it’s that light bulb that spurred you to open your first club.
I don’t believe thinking outside the box is difficult for the typical entrepreneur. There is too much time spent focusing on the business at hand to not realize something inventive. However, what do you do when you come up with that inventive idea?
You probably bounce it off your partners, your wife or whomever you trust the most around you. You may even go as far as to do a little research on your idea. But, it’s what comes next that most people don’t see through.
Here is an example. When I was a younger, someone told me a story about Paul McCartney. You know, that guy that played in the Beatles? Apparently, Paul had spent an inordinate amount of time on a song. He had been singing it in the shower, playing it on the piano and just immersing himself in this song. But, the song wasn’t going anywhere.
Paul started calling his family and friends to play the song for them. He swore he had heard the song somewhere before. He knew that the song wasn’t his, but he didn’t know where it came from.
Out of all the great musicians around him that he shared the song with, no one had heard the song before, but they loved it. Eventually, Paul had to record the song and share it with the world.
“Hey Jude” was released to the world in 1968 as a single. Singles were the big thing back then. Maybe some of you remember that time.
Anyway, “Hey Jude” went platinum four times and is still considered one of the greatest Beatles songs ever recorded. Now, what if Paul had discarded the song as a bunch of rambling in his head? What if he wouldn’t have made a move on the idea that kept playing in his head?
Had Paul not taken a chance with a song he wasn’t certain of, we would have never heard of “Hey Jude.” The point being, don’t discard every idea that comes floating through your brain. Be confident enough in yourself as an entrepreneur to implement good ideas.
Tyler Montgomery is the Editor of Club Solutions Magazine. Contact him at tyler@clubsolutionsmagazine.com
