Put Your Ideas to Work for You

This Week with Sara Fitts is dedicating this week's focus to putting ideas into motion. I read a powerful quote from John C. Maxwell in Thinking for a Change. It has powerful implications for all of us - especially self-employed professionals and small business owners.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

Too many times we have good ideas and don't take the time to act on them. Either we are waiting for the perfect opportunity to implement them, or we are trying to perfect the idea itself. I challenge you to stop waiting for the perfect moment and just jump into action with your good ideas. Be bold. And realize that waiting for perfection is another view of procrastination.

What ideas have you been putting off? What marketing tactic have you been waiting to use? Have you been waiting to hire staff? What is really holding you back from implementing your good ideas?

Too many times our competitors beat us to the punch - and our own ideas may have been better from the beginning! (Have you ever experienced that?) You will never know the outcome of your efforts if you don't put your ideas into action. I challenge you to make 2007 your best business year yet - by putting your good ideas into action before their expiration date - or before your competitor beats you to the punch.

Put your ideas to work for you - and start today!