Early last months i got a call from my longtime friend who we used to be together in different situations before we separated to face the world each on his own,in a low tone after greeting me he tells me “You know, am giving up on this struggle to so called greatness,” i first kept quite and he added “Look its a long while since i started on this idea, everyday i try but nothing seems to come out positive, do i have to borrow brains to make it work? no.. i have to let go,persistence seems not to be the road to take on this, maybe i should try giving up and see the results, whenever i think of all this i see no way through: Haters are everywhere to pull down what i build,our gov’t doesn’t support me neither, taxes are high, it seems even there is no friend to support me in this, everyone i share my ideas with expecting to give me a go ahead support, they instead steal my idea and turn it into a business of their own, i think it better the other side where u don’t have to think hard” after all this, i said “cool down dear Peter (not real name).. may be you tried to be stubborn instead of being persistent.
You may disagree with me but you have to know that Stubbornness is not persistence. Stubborn people will continue to do the same things even when there is overwhelming evidence to show that they should stop or change the way they do them. Some stubborn people fear being shown that they are wrong. Others may be convinced that they have been right all along and that they will prove it in the end. Stubbornness is like banging your head against a wall that won’t break. There’s no future in that and you won’t achieve your goals with this approach. . Remember.. your idea isn’t wrong or invalid but u are acting stubbornly to it, i think you should chose another way of approaching it other than giving up.
You had a chance of more than 300 days speaking to yourself, did u take that chance?, what major things have u discovered in yourself? What questions did the ‘Undeveloped you’ ask, what did the ‘bold You’ answer?. what did the ‘weak You’ tell & what did the ‘failing and procrastinating you’ tell? Yes, you failed to get the answers because the ‘Strong motivated, willing to learn and inspired you’ was always absent! OK,
You have started on multiple ideas and given up along the way before achieving, “Did any one pay you for giving up”? You have been complaining about the government for your failure to prosper, do u think those who are taking steps day by day are under a certain government from Mars planet? You have played and won medals in the blame game, u think someone is responsible for your failure and stagnancy , did they promise you this time to help u achieve success? “of course a big No”.
Don’t you think you have to do something?, get off that edge and heal the wounds PLEASE! I mean do something like knowing that no one owes you a living, something like knowing that no one is under the obligation to help you, , you must take 100% responsibility for your life , I mean do something like knowing that you have greatness within you, something like knowing that you have the best bright light within you that every one can stand to look at, U only need one match stick to light your candle, U only need to unleash your potential, u just need the empowerment to kick off your journey, It doesn’t matter how long you have been challenged and failed, after all no one had ever risen when already in the sky, to rise u start from down. all u need is some mentoring and motivation and remain focused, remember no seed has ever grown without being lost and dead into the ground, u need to sacrifice some good time and stay in the battle because no one could ever win if they never engaged in a battle”.
The fact he told me all this means he was probably wondering, ‘How to turn his own ideas into valuable commodities, and live well. Well it’s not that simple-.
Young creative people like him and me or tend to be possessive and impatient when it comes to turning ideas onto income and they end up making some errors. Many innovators’ problems I’ve read on over the past years are due simply to misunderstanding their roles in working upon their dreams; not knowing how to proceed rightfully and see the fruits of their ideas.
“Listen Peter” I said “There are some beginning steps for getting your idea further down the road to success.
If you have a creative idea you believe has potential, you must begin with knowing how your idea is viewed in the society if implemented. Since I am a business man I can say the safety of your idea is where you must start…
To encourage creation of valuable ideas, and protect them from being stolen u must watch intelligently the people u will share with about it.
Secondly If u can’t believe in your idea sometimes you will be discouraged by negative people who will keep telling u negatives about it, to overcome this u must always assume as if the idea is real today. Imagine a life u will live if it was true, practice it as if its real now; this will give you strength and motivation to keep going a step day by day because u will be creating hunger in u which makes you unstoppable until you reach the vantage point of your idea.
Develop the Marketing skill in you.
If you want to get that idea out of your head and into the marketplace, then be prepared to do more than dreaming but displaying your idea to those u will expect to buy your idea, make them like it, If possible change the greeting words from the normal greetings to the product or service name. Dream it,market it and speak it everywhere you go but remember to keep the intellectual property with you as people may steal your idea before u get it real, but above all never give up on an idea which u feel its valid”…
He answered after a long breath out and said let me set out, i must get, i will thank u later” its so amazing that a month after he called me telling me that his idea is now a business and he is getting more and more clients everyday, never give up because no one pays you for giving up!!!!
Nicholas Quest - Uganda. 
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