by Robert L. Gisel
The whole essence of the 24 Qualities That Geniuses Have In Common is that when you bring out the best in yourself you can step out from mundane expectancies of life and live the adventures of your dreams. How well you do that has everything to do with how well you get your ducks in a row to meet the challenge.
In Sustainable Life Vs Enjoyable Sustenance I advise against full out abandonment of an income source into a dearth of no income or support. The other side of that is that you could land in Philadelphia with nothing but a few coins in your pocket and a loaf of bread under each arm and end up a renown author and philosopher. Benjamin Franklin did it, but not without visions of enterprise already jelling in the think tank.
A brilliant idea merits a brilliant plan of execution and positioning. It is often born out in your first flash of genius on the subject, where the creation first incubates. When you start to roll out an idea don't stop because the sun goes down or the clock says it is time for bed. Take it as far you can and document it. Write it, draw it, outline it even in vignette, place it in the physical universe where doesn't get lost because you later forget it in whole or in part.
For an invention you would want to encapsulate the idea from the need that it fulfills, and for whom, and even what would you call it that elicits a creative image of the thing. Consider how it would be built and marketed or the kind of expert that could be brought in to handle those aspects. You may only need to consider its possibilities, that it can be done.
You can always outsource or insource the details the way Henry Ford did. He didn't know how to build a V-6 engine, he only envisioned that it could be done to advantage, then demanded his staff experts do it until after many times of failure and repeated demand it was done. The dream was the most valuable piece of the engine.
A new business idea may be simply filling a vacuum in an absent market where the need and demand by lots of people provides a huge potential. Starbucks fulfilled coffee drinkers desire for specialty coffee in a fast-food format and then reached out with that to its market potential around the world.
Plan It Out
From initial thought to realization the key is to think it through.
The incredible advantage we have today is you can Google anything. You can rapidly learn what you need to know. Aside from that there are libraries, schools, texts, colleges and people more that willing to help you understand an area that fits any piece of the puzzle. These are the details of R&D, though. Before that you have to plan out where the idea is headed.
You can list the steps forward one to the next, say, each step of establishment of a facility to deliver a popular fast-food hamburger that could be duplicated in many locations, eg, MacDonald's. It might be more appropriate step if backwards from the final result, as in Edison's dream of electric lighting in every household.
Go back over it and think it through from different angles. For instance, there is the financial considerations. What will it cost, what could it be sold for, how does that compare with similar things, is there even anything like this extant, and if so, how does this differ. To pull it off can it be done on a shoestring, leveraging monies and resources as you make your way. How much development or establishment will it take? Will it require financing? If that, who would have an interest in backing your project?
It is your bright idea, you are the Granddaddy of it, get familiar with all its facets that you can answer questions on any of it or know what expertise could work it out. You only have to believe it is possible, even if all the mechanics are not yet worked out.
Breaking Out
At some point you will have the confidence of your particular grand scheme. You are source, and none know a dream or have a better feel for it than its dreamer. That is infinitely valuable, yet there is another ace in the hole.
When you have assured belief in something and take action towards it all manner of solutions, help and practical assistance will materialize. Doing nothing is as dormant as a dead log. When you set out and do, resources will appear. That is just the way it works. The key is do something, take any action, however small, towards the dream and the universe will align to help you achieve the dream.
Your decision accompanied with your doingness, fueled by your desired will part part the waters in sometimes the most uncanny ways. Remember that formula: decision, doingness and desire.
With all that said, you could well find yourself in a position to quit your job, cast all abandon to the wind and launch your ship into the unknown. Be unshakable in your resolve and practical in your ability without kowtowing to the naysayers, and then why not go where no man has gone.
Do it for the love of life.
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Friday, November 26, 2010
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Be in Control, Take Charge
by Robert L. Gisel
"3. DEVOTION TO GOALS. Geniuses know what they want and go after it. Get control of your life and schedule. Have something specific to accomplish each day." Dr.Barrios
It is a recurring theme in comments from others on the subject of genius, this sort of envy, of the ingenuity and brilliance of the Edison or the Einstein. The truth is, it is in you, should you choose to bring it out.
A correspondent expressed a difficulty she was having, something I've observed occasionally in myself and others, getting a mind to work at all, what with all the life problems and situations one has to handle or resolve. This is something more basic than having goals and being in control of your life and schedule. This is about being in control of your mind and decisive factors.
First off, one can be distracted by having a lot of things going on at once, which is okay, but keeping and juggling so many things in one's head at the same time becomes counter-productive. Sure, that is the purpose of the mind, but you won't control anything if you can't control one thing. To control one thing you have to focus on it. Even if it's only to take hold of something out of the corner of your eye, it's a focus and thus controlling something.
Here is a short set of actions that cures the dispersal. To do be able to do these you must disappear from all distractions for about 20-30 minutes; go somewhere you won't be interrupted.
1. Make a list of all the actions in your life (or work, separately, unless they are the same) that are open actions to do.
2. Make another list of anything in your life you do not feel in control of.
3. Another list, what do you feel in control of.
You should have experienced some relief at the point, a plateau by itself. Now you can do this short set of actions:
4. Go back to the first list and highlight realistically what MUST be done as opposed to what is just nice or desirable to do.
5. Pick one of those that can be done now (not something unreal, like contact the Court Clerk at 2 AM).
6. Do it. If it appears it has necessary sequential sub-actions like a, b, c, d, do a.
After this you can start to complete actions on the rest of the first list, one by one get some things done and cross them off. At some point you can re-write the first list and it will be more real and increasingly pertinent.
Get with me after you have done the steps 1-3 minimally, or preferably after step 6. Also get with me if it this bogs down for any reason, tell me what you are experiencing and I'll address that with you. This shouldn't be the case, unless some fiasco happens like you get arrested for loitering while doing 1-3. A fiasco has a different handling.
If you can't get started on any of this, if it's all too bad, select someone to take you out back and shoot you (just kidding). Seriously, your ability to do or accomplish anything you desire is your most valuable asset. Even if you don't believe that still take the baby steps 1-6, then write to me.
No one is devoid of the 24 Qualities That Geniuses Have In Common. Some IQ geniuses have said they don't have them, which is basically poppycock, being a put down of oneself. You innately have them. If only working on one trait at a time you can enhance or enrich these traits in yourself and be the next Edison, if you so desire.
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My blog is free and so are you. Contributions of any amount help keep me funded, if you so desire.
I also talk about this exercise from a bit different view at http://WhoWouldWrite.blogspot.com .
If you only laughed a little you'd be better for it; go here for a humorous viewpoint of blogging.
Another one, unique, designed to make you laugh, here.
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"3. DEVOTION TO GOALS. Geniuses know what they want and go after it. Get control of your life and schedule. Have something specific to accomplish each day." Dr.Barrios
It is a recurring theme in comments from others on the subject of genius, this sort of envy, of the ingenuity and brilliance of the Edison or the Einstein. The truth is, it is in you, should you choose to bring it out.
A correspondent expressed a difficulty she was having, something I've observed occasionally in myself and others, getting a mind to work at all, what with all the life problems and situations one has to handle or resolve. This is something more basic than having goals and being in control of your life and schedule. This is about being in control of your mind and decisive factors.
First off, one can be distracted by having a lot of things going on at once, which is okay, but keeping and juggling so many things in one's head at the same time becomes counter-productive. Sure, that is the purpose of the mind, but you won't control anything if you can't control one thing. To control one thing you have to focus on it. Even if it's only to take hold of something out of the corner of your eye, it's a focus and thus controlling something.
Here is a short set of actions that cures the dispersal. To do be able to do these you must disappear from all distractions for about 20-30 minutes; go somewhere you won't be interrupted.
1. Make a list of all the actions in your life (or work, separately, unless they are the same) that are open actions to do.
2. Make another list of anything in your life you do not feel in control of.
3. Another list, what do you feel in control of.
You should have experienced some relief at the point, a plateau by itself. Now you can do this short set of actions:
4. Go back to the first list and highlight realistically what MUST be done as opposed to what is just nice or desirable to do.
5. Pick one of those that can be done now (not something unreal, like contact the Court Clerk at 2 AM).
6. Do it. If it appears it has necessary sequential sub-actions like a, b, c, d, do a.
After this you can start to complete actions on the rest of the first list, one by one get some things done and cross them off. At some point you can re-write the first list and it will be more real and increasingly pertinent.
Get with me after you have done the steps 1-3 minimally, or preferably after step 6. Also get with me if it this bogs down for any reason, tell me what you are experiencing and I'll address that with you. This shouldn't be the case, unless some fiasco happens like you get arrested for loitering while doing 1-3. A fiasco has a different handling.
If you can't get started on any of this, if it's all too bad, select someone to take you out back and shoot you (just kidding). Seriously, your ability to do or accomplish anything you desire is your most valuable asset. Even if you don't believe that still take the baby steps 1-6, then write to me.
No one is devoid of the 24 Qualities That Geniuses Have In Common. Some IQ geniuses have said they don't have them, which is basically poppycock, being a put down of oneself. You innately have them. If only working on one trait at a time you can enhance or enrich these traits in yourself and be the next Edison, if you so desire.
gisel_creations@yahoo.com
My blog is free and so are you. Contributions of any amount help keep me funded, if you so desire.
I also talk about this exercise from a bit different view at http://WhoWouldWrite.blogspot.com .
If you only laughed a little you'd be better for it; go here for a humorous viewpoint of blogging.
Another one, unique, designed to make you laugh, here.
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