Why Too Many Ideas Are Quietly Killing Your Focus - #2 May Surprise You

Growing a business, leading an organization, somebody has to have vision.

Somebody has the ideas.

I call it in our coaching circle the big, hairy, audacious goals.

Someone's got to step out on faith and lead the charge to go, this is what we're going to do.

And they paint the picture on the canvas to the team.

And everybody goes, wow.

But what if so many of those are actually crippling our ability to actually move forward? And I do believe this is a legit kind of epidemic kind of thing, especially to those of you that wake up every day with a new idea and you want to start to take action on every idea.

Now, we got to have ideas.

Here's the thing.

I want to be very careful here.

I'm not suggesting that we should stop idea-aiding.

We've got to have ideas.

But how? And what if we're moving on too many of them at the same time and it's killing our focus? That's what we're going to discuss.

An idea that never gets executed isn't vision.

It's a distraction wearing vision's clothes.

Okay? And so this is the fatigue, is that we wake up one day, oh, We should do X, Y, Z.

And we got...

There's dopamine, a lot of excitement.

We just cannot wait to share and start working on it or whatever.

I've done it myself a thousand times.

Lots of other folks that I know that are entrepreneurs, same thing.

And then what happens? Well, we'll get to the next day and the next day and we lose the enthusiasm.

Why? We haven't really properly thought about it.

And so...

We're never really lacking on ideas.