Interesting , I've been thinking about that too. You still need to come up with something original, when opening a business , especially online. To stand out from the crowd, if you get what i mean. And that's one thing I can't really come up with. Guess I need to do more research , as for now I don't even know what industry to try opening a business in.
Great quote btw
No. you. don't.
I am so passionate about this because it was a major tripping point for myself.
Please try and deprogram yourself from the fact that you think that you need the 'idea'. YOU DON'T.
You don't need a world changing idea, you just need a fresh angle .
READ: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1452869375/?tag=tff-amazonparser-20
Read below (and then read it again, and again):
MISTAKE NO. 1
BEING A BIG THINKER...
And trying to dent the universe.
No eventual revolutionary leader started out imagining their likeness in a bronze bust and attempting to dent the universe. As universe-denter Sir Richard Branson said, “When my friends and I started the first Virgin business 40 years ago, we had no master plan— especially not one for a group of companies that by 2011 would number more than 400 businesses around the world and employ 50,000 people. Had we tried to plan for such a future, we would certainly have messed it up.”
If you start out with illusions of grandeur, you’ll likely never start, or as Sir Richard said, you will mess it up. Why? Because you will overestimate your projected sales, you will overbuild and overspend on the perfect “scalable systems” and while you are dreaming of your contribution to human progress, you will miss payroll—then it’s game over.
Learn to start small. Start where you are. Ship what you’ve got. Sell something today. Then improve.
I asked my friend and legendary leadership guru John C. Maxwell what his big goals are these days. He said, “I’m just trying to get better every day.” He explained that when he was a young man struggling as a pastor, he could never have set a goal for the life he has today—it wouldn’t have even been conceivable to him and most certainly he could never have written a plan to get here. By focusing on just getting better every day, versus some imagined, lofty goal, he far surpassed any goal he could have imagined.
Now, I’m not telling you never to set goals. In fact, if you don’t give yourself some direction, you’ll wander aimlessly into bankruptcy. But on a day-to-day, practical basis, thinking too big paralyzes you and keeps you from doing anything at all. You figure if your product or service isn’t revolutionary yet or you’re not changing the world, you have a convenient excuse to wait, delay, and continue to aim, aim, aim rather than work, work, work.
You’ve heard it before, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Think small. Think about today’s step. Then with each step you take, work on growing and getting better. In due time, you will look up and realize you’re much further along than you could have even seen over the horizon from where you first started. You might even travel so far in your constant and never-ending day-to-day growth and improvement that the world feels your step and is slightly dented by it. It can happen!
^^ From Darren Hardy