How often do you get a good idea and say, "someday?"
Winners are people who begin the planning phase almost immediately after they get an idea.
In another maxim, "There's Not Much New under the Sun," we make the point that much of our creativity comes from our environment and that others are spawning similar ideas from those same environmental conditions. Therefore, if an idea proves to be valuable it pays to strike the iron while it's hot.
Should planning reveal the idea is not worth pursuing, at least you can prevent further excessive and unproductive dreaming. Clear the idea from your mind to focus on more productive pursuits.
I once worked under a brilliant manager. On Saturday mornings we would meet for breakfast. Often, he would broach a new idea for our sales department. We would discuss the idea before returning to our respective offices. Later, when I would go to his office to ask about his plans for lunch, he would show me a complete set of plans almost ready for implementation on Monday morning.
I wish I could tell you how successful he became. I suspect he may have stumbled along the way because it was rumored in the office that one of his previous ideas had landed him in prison. That did not distract me from trying to emulate his quickness to convert ideas into action plans.
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