The Seeds in Your Mind

One morning during winter, I was in the kitchen preparing breakfast for the family.  The weather that morning was extremely cold and it will be a sucidial mission for one to have a cold bath. Bearing this in mind, I decided to boil water in the spare burner of the gas cooker.

While the water was still on fire, all of a sudden my younger bro bounced in from no where and decided to help himself with the hot water from the kettle, I stopped him and asked him  who authorised him to take the water? He stood bewildered and he asked "who put the water on the fire?" I said I did, He was actually transfixed, in his mind he planned on boiling but then ... I laughed and  told him his plans on boiling water only ended up in his mind but wasn't carried out in reality.

In life, most times some of us are like that, we have so many wonderful, well structured concepts and innovative ideas all locked in our mind. We think about it, dream of them, envision it's reality but the fact is that unless you implement it or take practical steps to authenticate it, all you have in the whole wide world is still an idea.

If ideas does not results to visible manifestations as action, they remain mere thought and if care is not taken, someone else also has the same idea and is already working on it while you're still dreaming.

Ideas are just like seeds, just like every seed has the capacity to reproduce itself in greater measure, so does ideas. Just like no one has monopoly of seeds, same applies to ideas. The seed in your hands remains a seed until it is planted, it abides alone but when planted, it springs up into gigantic trees. Ideas in the mind of a man abides alone until it is acted upon.

The crux of the whole matter is not in having or getting wonderful ideas or being inspired, it is actually in implementing it.

We have so many young people moving up and down with business ideas, it's good to have ideas but it's not enough, implementing it is key.

Unless an idea is implemented, it abides alone in the heart of a man.

Practical and proven steps to turn ideas into reality.

1. Start with what you have: Most times when ideas springs up in our mind, we see big things that seems unachivable in reality because we don't have the resources to make it happen.
You don't need to wait till you are able to fix all the puzzles together, all you need to do is to start from somewhere.
You may see yourself speaking to millions of people in your mind and you are dreaming of when it's going to be a reality, all you need to do is to first bring together those around you, they may be 2, 3, 10 etc but you really need to start from somewhere. Stop all your excuses! Stop procrastinating!

Take action today! Yes! Now is the time, transform your ideas into reality by taking a step from where you are.

2. Sell/share it to trusted allies: "Without counsel, plans go awry,  But in the multitude of counselors they are  established." (Prov 11:14)

Another thing to do is to look for people of like minds or mentors to share your ideas with, these ones will help you in strategising your ideas, they will give you the push and the encouragement you require to move on.

I discovered that once your share idea you want to work on with someone close or higher than you, you become accountable to them. That's one thing I always do, whenever an idea comes up in my mind, after praying about it and am assured of it, I immediately tell it to a mentor or my friend, this is to keep my focused and accountable to my plans.

We most times become lazy in carrying out our ideas because we are not accountable to anyone. Please get an accountability partner! (if possible someone higher than you... I could also help you out with that *smiles*, just send me a mail to get started)

" Where  there is no counsel, the people fall;  But in the multitude of counselors  there is safety. "

3. Consistently keep on nurturing it till it's visible germination: yes! Nature your ideas by taking consistent action. In consistency lies the key!
 You may not be seeing the results at first, but then keep doing it, you may be speaking to just 2 people today, probably just 2 persons are viewing your post of facebook etc but don't give up, keep doing what you are doing.

 If there is a need to re-brand and restrategise, do that and continue but giving up should never be option.

"unless an idea in the heart of man is implemented, it abides alone but when acted on it germinates into inventions "

Plant that seed locked up in your mind today!