[foxbivvy]

Thanks Steve. Great value blog for me as an ENTP. The advice for my type has been: prioritize, focus, follow through. You make it so dam clear. Your value is in how good a writer you are. We always have to DO something with an idea - or it is pointless. Put as much effort into selling it - as we did making it.


However, it seemed you were talking about ideas being something people throw out randomly.

The best ideas are the simple ones. As these are easy to sell. I agree these can be rare! But so are people that work from home. Just because something is rare does not mean it is also not within reach. Anyone can work from home. And many of us can get simple ideas. If you do the work to set the area where you get an idea first, you can stand a great chance to get one. This again is work, not selling, or implementing, but idea work. A summary on how to do work to get a valuable idea in its own right :-

1. See how simple ideas are easy to sell.
2. Just because few people have simple ideas - does not mean you cannot do it.
3. Do research / explore fully - where you can get a simple idea that is valuable.
4. Stay with the problem / area, look at it from different perspectives, learn more about it. Be open minded.
5. Eventually this may well lead to a solution : a valuable idea that is easy to sell.

It's not certain you will get an idea. But perceiver types actually enjoy this risk. Make sure you have enough to support yourself. One way you can do this is by proposing a job to a suitable employer working on how to solve your identified problem area. And asking for a cut of the profits if it comes off.

Some like myself, love creativity so much (number 1 signature strength) that they will happily spend ages working on ideas. But must remember (or work out a system to automate) them being put into action. As Martin Seligman said - we each need to work out how to spend as much time as possible using our number 1 strength.

Like many, I am looking forward to your book!

PS. update. My conscience just came back to me and said, yes, right now I am spending too much time on ideas, not enough following through. My karma will be bad unless I update this. Plus I may never learn unless I get it out. Solution: I can phase what I am doing, try to sell my basic concept to a corporation, and myself, and my interest in solving the problems to make this idea workable. And proving it to them. PPS. I've gone raw recently, enough energy to do this now, was soo tried before. My level of consciousness has expanded.

PPPS. There is something in simple valuable ideas I feel, but I have not yet got one. I just feel drawn to this project.

Ok, must get down to work on DOING the document that will sell it. I must work out the key selling points, and explaining it easily. And remember: as much as anything I am selling myself, not just the idea. When I get in there, I can impress them enough to let them have me work from home. This is my first phase of attack, if it fails, I can always try another idea, more practical if need be. But my intension is to make this work. I don't want to be a slave to others but I am being guided to this one corporation. Perhaps the best place to implement the idea.