Of all the quotes I have come across, Les Brown’s “The Richest Man in the Graveyard” resonates strongly with my imagination and emotional pride. We are all creative creatures, with our unique talents. Somehow we get lost in the everyday expectations of a society that exists to keep the wheels of commerce and industry turning, to set boundaries around our lives that keep us safe and fed, ensuring we stay focused with aspirations for progress and reward. Like mice following the bait. Our dreams and aspirations are cast aside and before we know it, our time is up. We are on our death beds wondering what happened. What stopped us from living the dream?
We can all make plausible excuses. We didn’t have the chance. That’s not the way our lives worked. Too many people trusted us. Every excuse adds to the weight of unfulfilled dreams on our shoulders. One common reason is that people just didn’t know where to start. If only they had, then things might have turned out differently. How do you harness that creative idea and turn it into gold?
The first step is to get it out of your head. Write it. Use the ten digits you were born with on the back of your hands and translate that inner voice into your plan for a different life, possibly the life you imagined but never dared to dream of. Let that spark flow.
When I established my business, I realized my passion for helping dream makers turn their ideas into real life by helping them focus on what they want to achieve and turn their ideas into action. We have helped clients take vague notions and turn them into real business, many of them winning awards for what they have achieved.
My personal dream is to create as many entrepreneurs as possible who can contribute to enlightened change in the world, one community at a time. So I designed an app to capture some of those creative ideas so that they can be turned into a plan to access grants. As I was putting it together, I realized that it could be used beyond grants, as a powerful tool for generating ideas and putting them on paper into a tangible business case. Imagine being able to act on at least one good idea before it disappears into the halls of forgotten memory.
