Inspiration: Give ‘Possible’ Some Room to Breathe

I did not know that I could want pizza in the palm of my hand, and yet here it is. Just when you think you’ve seen it all…someone rolls pizza into a cone and serves it up at the mall. No more messy slices or sauce overflowing onto your shirt. Here all you could want on your pizza comes in a neat cone. When I passes the kiosk that was selling this product, there was a line…Who thinks of this stuff? 

I mean really…innovators are all around us. I think my world is pretty complete, and yet I see new ideas like this and am amazed and proud. There are people all over thinking of new and exciting ways to change our world, one pizza slice at a time. If you would have pitched this idea to me, I’m not sure I would have seen the need, and yet someone did and here it is in the mall. All of this makes me think of a couple thing:

• Be careful who you share your idea with...not everyone is supportive. You know who I mean, the negative people who no matter what your idea is they poo poo it. It’s too expensive, it’s unrealistic, you can’t do that…and the negative goes on and on and on. They either do not know how to think big or different or new OR they don’t want you to do something they couldn’t imagine doing. Amelia Eirhart made a great statement about this group. “Get out of the way for the people who are doing what you said could not be done.”
• Let your ideas run wild…no one could have imagined that rolled up pizza or pet rocks or hula hoops would make someone money, yet they do. Sometimes we think we have a good idea and we are afraid to let it grow. We either can’t imagine that people would want it OR we can’t figure out to how get it off the ground. Before you poo poo your own idea, give it a chance to grow and bloom in your own mind. Let your idea run wild, write it down…then figure out what might come next. When you get the idea you don’t have to figure it ALL out right way, some good ideas need time. 
• Don’t let your fear keep you from trying…if you are like me you can think of all the reasons why YOU can’t do it, why it won’t work, what the worst case scenario is and why you will never succeed. And you can do all that within three seconds of even thinking of a new idea. It’s called human nature. It’s called being beat down by life. It’s called being ‘mature’ and living a practical life. It’s just called being scared. If time and money were no object, how would you think differently about your idea? Don’t let fear make you think ‘practical’ before you think possible. Give possible some room to breathe before you tear it apart. It’s okay to be scared, the best innovative people are at one time or another…they just don’t give their fear enough oxygen to survive. 

So when you get this great new idea, or a though about a new kind of art or product or process change…take a deep breathe and give your ‘new’ room to breath. Before you go practical think possible…who knows, you may be the inventor of the next great mall food like rolled up pizza. Some has to, why not you?