Look around you

Just look around you. What do you see? What is the closest thing to your right hand? Perhaps its the mouse you are using to click around on your computer. What is the first thing you see when you look away from the screen? Something hanging on your wall maybe, or the lamp on your desk. Look around you. What do you see that you or someone else paid for? Everything. The truth is, almost every single thing near you was paid for either by you or someone you know. And for everything that you spent money on, someone, somewhere received that money.
 
Every business, from individuals selling their products on their own, to large corporations spitting out millions of products a day, shares the common ground of creating things that people want to buy. If an idea is good enough, someone will pay for it, and all the things you own, at one point or another, were good enough for you to spend money on.

To think big, think small

Coming up with the next great idea may be easier than you think. Its not always about creating something huge and expensive that will net large sums immediately, but more about thinking smaller, as in creating something that everyone can afford, and many people will enjoy. Think about it. There are approximately 300 million people in the united states. Let’s assume you create something that is even remotely appealing to a third of that population, leaving you with a market of 100 million. Once you come up with your idea, develop it, etc. you are left with a fourth of that remaining population who want to use your product and are willing to pay what you are charging for it. Even if you only profit one small, tiny dollar from each product, you’ve made 25 million dollars. Not so small anymore, is it?
 
Of course, if things were that easy, everyone would be extremely rich, right? Not necessarily. The biggest thing standing between those who want riches and the riches themselves is a fear of impossibility. Tell almost anyone you know that you are going to make a million dollars in one year, and they will probably laugh at you and think nothing more of it. Do it, however, and they will be eating their words, and then some, because you are now a millionaire, and lots of people want to be your friend. Ok, maybe not, but you get the point.

Just do it

Maybe you already have a great idea that you have thought about and thought about forever, but haven’t had a chance to do anything with. That was my case for quite a while. I spent more time thinking about the things I wanted to do and how great the end result would be than I did actually developing my ideas and making something out of them. The hardest part was starting, but once I got past that, things began to fall into place and it is much easier to keep going. There have been obstacles, and I know there will be many more, but the desire to finish what I have started is more of a motivation than almost anything else. If you never try, you can never fail, but by that same token, you will never succeed. As soon as you find something you want to do, the best thing is to just do it.

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