Thinking Travel

I have a lot of ideas. Projects, travel, businesses for me, businesses for Aaron…lots and lots of ideas. But I bet there are people who know me who wouldn’t guess that about me.

My problem isn’t coming up with ideas. My problem: believing in my ideas.  Telling people about my ideas. And taking action on my ideas.

Reasons? Oh, there are many. But I don’t want to go into them. I’d rather get out of them.

So. Over the weekend I read Seth Godin’s Brainwashed: Seven Ways to Reinvent Yourself e-book promo for his new book (which I haven’t read) and saw his list of “seven levers available for anyone (like you) in search of reinvention”:

1. Connect
2. Be generous
3. Make art
4. Acknowledge the lizard
5. Ship
6. Fail
7. Learn

I’m not really trying to reinvent myself. Rather, I’m working on getting the ideas out of my head so I can take action so I can achieve my goals/dreams and stop talking Aaron’s head off about all of the ideas I have that I never do anything about.

I like this list of 7 levers and thought they’d be good things for the next 7 weeks.

I’m starting with connect.

The easy: I just joined a thing that will help me take action on my ideas. I’ll have lots of people to connect with, and I think it will be a supportive environment.

The hard: I tend to be a lurker more than a participator. When I’m figuring something out, I prefer to mull it over on my own or possibly talk with someone I know very, very well, as opposed to throwing out half-baked ideas to a bunch of people I don’t know.

My commitment: I will make a concerted effort to connect with strangers every day in this new thing I joined. Instead of lurking, I will participate above my normal level of participation. I know I’ll make more progress on putting my ideas into action that way.

I may or may not tweet about my progress on this thing throughout the week. We’ll see. But I always welcome accountability, supportive comments, and hearing about your own projects for 2010!