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Still Growing · 12-26-2006, 04:39 AM

You said you like to create ideas but you never follow through on them, is that correct?

Well first of all, not everyone can come up with good ideas but guess what. Even fewer people actually follow through with ideas.

There are so many people who dream but not nearly as many people who do...

Give me someone with a half ass idea who will do and keep doing and they will usually be more successful then someone who never follows through.

Sure you like thinking of things... Doing them seems like work.

My father use to point out ideas that he had come up with first before other people did them. I use to think he was brilliant. Maybe he is but he's really more lazy than brilliant.

A perfectionist, people say here; I say fear of failure is what I call it.

You probably are a very bright person with great ideas. Jump in there and give some of these ideas a try and then if you're really a perfectionist you won't stop until you perfect your idea.

Give your next idea a try. As a matter of fact, start on that website you mentioned. You can do it! And if you fail then you still did it.... Because doing is so much more important than half baked ideas with no follow through.

12-26-2006, 04:39 AM	#25 (permalink)
Still Growing Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 944	You're not a perfectionist You said you like to create ideas but you never follow through on them, is that correct? Well first of all, not everyone can come up with good ideas but guess what. Even fewer people actually follow through with ideas. There are so many people who dream but not nearly as many people who do... Give me someone with a half ass idea who will do and keep doing and they will usually be more successful then someone who never follows through. Sure you like thinking of things... Doing them seems like work. My father use to point out ideas that he had come up with first before other people did them. I use to think he was brilliant. Maybe he is but he's really more lazy than brilliant. A perfectionist, people say here; I say fear of failure is what I call it. You probably are a very bright person with great ideas. Jump in there and give some of these ideas a try and then if you're really a perfectionist you won't stop until you perfect your idea. Give your next idea a try. As a matter of fact, start on that website you mentioned. You can do it! And if you fail then you still did it.... Because doing is so much more important than half baked ideas with no follow through.