Can Your Idea Come Out to Play?

Once upon a time, there was this little idea. It was a funny looking thing. The little idea would repeatedly ask its parents could it go outside and play with all the other ideas. “No,” they would say. They were afraid that if they let it out, they would never see it again and it’s true, they wouldn’t. They worried about how it would fair in that big scary world. Would others laugh at it, make fun of it, or would nurture and help it grow as they would? So the little idea gave up. It decided it would lead a mundane life until its death - and so he did.

Such a tragic story for the little idea, and to think, this is exactly what you allow to happen to every idea sitting up in your brain and never escaping the prison of your mind!

Today in our society, children spend more time in front of the TV or computer than they spend outside playing and interacting with other children. While adults say, “Back in my day, we use to go outside and play,” the fear that something will happen to their kids prevent them from allowing the same for their children.

No doubt, you want to keep your children safe from harm and protect them with all of your ability, but are you allowing them to breath. Parents don’t allow children to explore or have the freedom to make mistakes and learn from them. Unfortunately, the way children are handled is the same way you handle your ideas. You don’t let your ideas out to breath, explore, to be free or make mistakes.

Every time you don’t act on that great idea, you are slowly killing that idea. Then the next and the next, until no more ideas want to come to you or until you die, which ever comes first. There’s a quote floating out there, “Don’t die with your music in you,” that I’ve heard people say and read it in places that sums up just what I wrote perfectly. Your ideas want to be released. They need to be released.

Only you know what these great ideas are which you keep locked up in your head, like Rapunzel. It could be the next cure for that disease or the next big idea for that business or possibly the greatest invention ever known to man. Alternatively, quite simply, just a better way of doing something that already exists.

No matter your idea is big or small, it is dieing to come out to learn, explore and grow. You have the ability to let your ideas out. So please, will you let them come out to play.