24/Seven October 2017

Daniel DiPiazza
WE NEED TO
HAVE MORE
RESPECT FOR
OUR OWN IDEAS
There is an immense joy in “closing the
loop” on your ideas, even if nothing ever
comes of them.
Sometimes, we aren’t meant to work on
a project or months or years. Sometimes,
our brain just craves play.
We want to enjoy the process of building
something. We want to enjoy thinking
about what could be. But since we never
get past the initial planning phase and see
our project in the real world, we never get
to “close the loop” on our ideas.
Now, the idea pops up everywhere.
We see it on TV commercials, on the
billboard on our way to work and on the
side of the bus that just cruised by.
We think about it before we go to bed
and wonder “what if.”
Sometimes, we even see it on Shark
Tank and get angry. (Hey! That’s my idea!
Honey, she stole my idea!)
Maybe the idea was nothing. Maybe it
was no good after all. Maybe it was lifechanging.
But we’ll never know — and that’s the part
that kills us. This is why one unexecuted
idea can bother us for our entire lives.
I’d suggest you start respecting your
ideas. If they come to you, they are there
for a reason.
You’re only here for a few decades before
you turn back into charcoal and stardust.
There’s no reason why you shouldn’t
actually try to do the thing you’ve been
obsessing about.
At the very least, you’ll relieve some of the
tension that comes from the “what if’s” of
not knowing.
Why not just close the loop on your idea
and see what comes of it?
Daniel DiPiazza is the founder of the website, Rich20Something.com. He writes for the Huffington Post and contributes regularly to Time
magazine, Fortune, Entrepreneur, and Fox News. He is the author of RICH20SOMETHING: Ditch Your Average Job, Start an Epic Business,
and Score the Life You Want. www.Rich20Something.com