Ever think to yourself, “I should do…” such and such. You cultivate this amazing idea, have the high points all planned out in your head and can even see it as a success! What an amazing feeling isn’t it? You sit and google it to see if anyone else has thought of this. Amazingly, this particular idea hasn’t been explored exactly as you’ve imagined it. Wow, the people you could help if you sat down and started writing out your dream to turn it into a plan. Just think, one day people would say that they learned “XYZ” from you or they bought “XYZ” from your “company” (omg your own company!) and it made their life so much easier. The goose bumps have officially arrived.

You sit on that idea for a few days as you hash it out in your mind. You start to him and haw and can’t figure out on your own where to begin. This is where some people start to talk about their ideas. They bring them up in conversation to kind of bounce the ideas off other people and see what they think. Initially, it’s to see if their opinions will help you decide where to begin your journey. What it turns into is someone (or more than one someone) telling you how or why you can’t do it. The goose bumps are fading and doubt is setting in.

It’s not uncommon that people seek out the opinions of others. I for one used to do that to see if my idea seemed appealing and would gain traction or sounded good enough to get customers right off the rip. Looking back at those times now, I see that it was actually an effort to avoid failure. I was trying to do something that would be so good and so genius right from the start that there is no way I could fail. But why? I mean think about it, what does it matter if I fail? What does it matter if YOU fail? How else are we going to learn?

If you try something once and it doesn’t work out, then you learn that the particular way you did it might not be the right way to do it. It doesn’t mean it’s a terrible idea. What if you just marketed it the wrong way? What if that’s the only thing that was wrong with your brilliant, money making idea. People didn’t “get it” because you didn’t “sell it” the right way. Why would you just throw that idea away all together? If you burn a piece of toast, you don’t throw away the whole loaf.

Peoples opinions of you or what you do shouldn’t dictate what you do or say. Everyone always has their 2 cents to drop on other people, people have their own way of throwing shade and they have their own messed up reasons for doing it too! How bout you throw shine on yourself and pat yourself on the back? How bout you talk to yourself (meditate), pray, and try to do it all by yourself first? How bout you’re not so fast to share your ideas before you implement them? How bout you have your own vision board made from cardboard up on your wall, adding to it with little pieces of YAAASSS that will ultimately come together to become your creation?!

This post isn’t about preaching, it’s about trying to help you be the best you that you can be. Everyone has goals. They can be big or small. They can be life changing or just momentarily changing but they are changes. They are goals that were thought up by YOU. You’re the only YOU there is so why would you think that someone else can do it better? Whatever it is.

I guess my point here is to not give up on yourself so easily. Do it scared. Do it before you’re ready. Go for it with all you’ve got. But do it quietly, do it carefully, strategically and do it well. Let your debut, be the way people find out what you’re up to. Remember, the lion doesn’t warn it’s prey that it’s hunting. After all, what’s the worst that can happen?