Jennifer and I recently hung a cork board on the wall to start our very own dream board (a dream board is where you put up images, writing, drawings, etc of all the things you want to do or have, to look at every day – a pretty cool visualization tool).

Well.

After a day or so it was still empty and eventually she printed out all the specs of the car she wants and tacked it up on the board.

Damn.  She beat me to it.

So, we were sitting around and looking at it and she said “You need to hang something on there! I am so way ahead of you!”

I wanted to say, “yeah, about 100% ahead” … but then I thought about it and said “you are INFINITY ahead of me!”

The difference between 0 and 1 is not 100% – it’s infinite.  One exists, and the other doesn’t.  She had taken an action step, and I was still just thinking about what to put up on the board.

Are you getting me here?

Ideas are WORTHLESS.  Utterly, completely, bottomed-out worthless.  No matter how good they are.  Until you take action.

Yesterday my friend Jordan called me with a damn good idea for how to make an absolute killing off of video gamers.  I won’t say more than that, but it sounds genuinely workable to me and could make the man a millionaire.

Will Jordan take action? Only time will tell.  I don’t think he reads this blog, but if he does, let this be a shout out to him that he should do something.

How about you?

What ideas or inventions are you sitting on, thinking about how they “might maybe someday” happen?  I know I’ve had a few over the years that I’ve not pursued … makes me wonder what would have happened if I had.

Would I still be writing and selling sign pricing software? I like to think I would, I’m kind of partial to our industry.

If you have any good ideas or plans that you haven’t started yet, let this be your call to action.  Get off your duff and get moving.

Goethe said, “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.“

Randy Gage is a speaker and author I like a lot – and I suspect many of you would, too.  People have called him the “millionaire messiah” and he has a lot of good things to say about action, too.

Go read Randy.  Then figure out what you’ve been dragging your feet on, and get started!

I’ll be over here staring at my dream board.