What is the one thing YOU really want to do? Sure you may be working toward or in a career, have hobbies, enjoy sports, love spending time with family and friends – but what is your one thing – the one dream that you have? What is your Big Idea?
Last week I posted a blog (thanks for the great response on that one!) about how finding just four hours a week gives you over 2000+ hours (a full working year!) in just 10 years to pursue your Big Idea. A few folks have courageously shared with me that they don’t know what their Big Idea is. If you don’t know, then I suggest using those four hours a week to figure out what you passion really is – but let’s be clear here – this is not your parents, or spouses, or friends, or teachers goals for you. This is YOUR Big Idea.
For my teenage readers – you are at a stage in life where your Big Idea may be to raise your GPA, to get a summer internship, or to secure your first full-time job. These are all hard, worthy, important goals. As someone who has been involved in hiring college graduates from some of the top universities in the world, I assure you it is a competitive market and you need to do everything you can to position yourself. Should you have fun in high school and college? Yes, definitely. But these are the launching pads of your career and getting the most out of these years will serve you well.
For my adult readers – you may be focused on the early stages of your career, or ensuring your kids have everything the need and get to all their activities on time or you may be caring for your parents, whatever you are doing you also have time and energy for your Big Idea. Yes, I know there are demands on you, but I am sure there is something else – something you want. Perhaps it is to learn how to play an instrument, learn a new language, start a small business, or travel to a new country.
For me, my Big Idea was to publish a book. On Sunday, April 5, 2009, I sat down, turned the TV off and wrote 4,626 words which is now Chapter 1 of my debut novel, Lindsey: Love & Intrigue. Please enter a comment with your Big Idea!
“Good ideas are common –
what’s uncommon are people who’ll work hard enough to bring them about.”
Ashleigh Brilliant
is an author and syndicated cartoonist born in London, UK, and living in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
(Born 9 December 9, 1933)1
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