Show me your first draft.

Tell me about your new ideas or project.

I know you have them.

How do I know?

Because its human nature, we’re all designed for growth, and growth stems from ideas. I know you have an idea or project rolling in around in your mind trying to find its way out, but you’re hesitating to share them.

Why do you hesitate?

Because you’re not being encouraged to share them. Or, you’re remembering back to what happened the last time you shared an unfinished piece of work, or a half-baked idea. It was dismissed as not good enough or a ‘that will never work,’ from someone that you respected, but in reality new nothing more than you did.  

Well, maybe today’s the day you decide no more. Today is the day you’re finally going to give life to your idea. You’re going to start with a first draft. Not a perfect fully baked idea, but a small outline, a brief description, just a line or two describing what it is you want to bring to life. And the most important thing is that you’re not going to share it with anyone yet. You’re going to protect it, at least for now. You’re going to allow it to take its first breaths in your safety before you show it to the world. You’re going to allow your idea and yourself to develop resilience against the critics and naysayers that you’ll inevitably encounter.

Once you’re ready then it’s time to find allies, others that have struggled in bringing ideas and projects to life. Those that understand that while it’s true that not all ideas are good or viable ideas, that no one really knows which ones will fail or succeed and just how big of a role luck plays in ideas and projects succeeding. Find those that know that the first draft is not the final draft and the thing you need most during the precarious moments of bringing a new idea to life is encouragement and an offer to help, not an unqualified naysayer telling you it will never work.

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