"Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings."
This is one of the best quotes about ideas I've ever heard. Wings and weight are needed for ideas to take flight. We know that, but it's much easier to offer this sage advice when we do not have the idea. When we do, we all know it's much more nerve-racking to give it legs. That is until you get used to practicing it.
This mini-episode aims to inspire you to dust off that idea (you know the one) and do something with it. All ideas sound great... in our heads. Where the truth comes is having courage and faith in acting on them. The actions do not need to be big at all. Most ideas built into something sustainable started with tiny action steps. In this episode, I share my company, Sow to Speak, as an example of something that started from a seed of an idea and grew from there. It had ups and down and all arounds, yet still, something stuck, and I followed it.
I hope this episode inspires you to let your idea lead you to follow its nudges. The more you practice listening in, the clearer you'll be able to hear the direction it gives you.
EXERCISES FROM THIS EPISODE
The 5 Whys Exercise
1. At the top of a paper, write down your idea. (E.g., "I created a workshop called Sow to Speak.")
2. Then write the question "Why?" and answer it. (E.g., To help entrepreneurs get clear on their messaging.)
3. Then write "Why" again and answer it. (E.g., Because then they'll feel more excited and connected to their business and audience.)
4. Repeat "Why" again (E.g., Because they'll have more integrity, confidence, and purpose for what they created and who they created it for.)
5. Repeat "Why" again (E.g., Because we need more conscious businesses and brands that better the world.)
The Short Senses Exercise
*This exercise is a shortened version of the 5 Senses Exercise. The aim is to have a strategy to catch when you're focusing on your idea, and the naggy inner voice pipes up in your head so you can quiet it down. It's fast, and it works.
1. Name three things that you see. If possible, pointing to or touching each item creates an even stronger result because it brings in the additional sense of touch.
If you want to expand to all 5 Senses, it could look like this:
1. Name five things that you see.
2. Name four things that you hear.
3. Name three things that you can feel (physically, not emotionally)
4. Name two things that you can smell.
5. Name one thing that you can taste.
Sow to Speak's The Closet Series focuses on bringing topics that we often keep in the closet to light so that you feel less in the dark and more relieved, reset, and ready to get out of your head and back into your life.
Because sometimes, the smallest spaces are where the biggest insights emerge.
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