This is the season to reflect and be grateful.
I have a new challenge for you today!
Think of someone who started something in the last year and hasn't quit.
This could involve a change in their personal life, the start of a new business or job, or anything else.
Let them know you appreciate them for sticking with it by sending them a message expressing your admiration for their tenacity.
Action and resilience are not at all simple things to do.
Your supportive remarks could make a significant difference.
Have a wonderful weekend!
You might assume that the idea you had is similar to an ongoing project or sounds like a problem that has already been solved, but your assumptions might not be accurate. Continue with your plan if you have one and are willing to put it into action. When you have an idea, it will be best to write it down first and consider how it might work rather than analyzing how it might not work while in your head. Before you know it, you will have talked yourself out of it, and the idea will have vanished.
The phrase "The Problem Has Been Solved" is frequently used as a stall tactic or as a means of evading accountability for implementation. What problem will the proposal fix is the most crucial question to ask; once you are satisfied that the problem is a genuine pain point for the users concerned, that is the go-ahead you require. If the thought of having to come up with the funds for execution scares you, you can make a prototype with little or no money using materials that are readily available, test it with the intended users, and use their feedback to determine whether you should proceed with the execution or alter the features to better suit the tasks at hand. The more you work towards production the more you'll begin to see the 'blue ocean' part of your idea, that is what makes your idea different from the competition.
In a conversation I was having, I asked a friend if he had ever abandoned a plan because he believed the issue might have been resolved. He admitted that he had. Most often, we give up before we even begin when we try to use comparison to demonstrate the originality of our idea. He said "your idea doesn't need to be original it only need to be useful." Consider a more effective approach if you feel your idea isn't unique enough. Redefine the market! that's Innovation. Apple did that with the first iPhone.
Think back to the mobile phone you owned before 2007. It probably looked something like this: A silver clamshell device with numeric keys on the bottom and a low-resolution screen on the top. It probably had a simple camera, a calendar, and was capable of running a few basic games, but you used it primarily for voice calls and texting. In the early 2000s you might have upgraded to a BlackBerry 6210 — a favorite among text-obsessed teens and corporate employees tied to their email inboxes.
But in 2007 the cellphone industry was sundered. In hindsight, there is only before and after the iPhone. “An iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator,” Steve Jobs famously said on stage at Macworld in 2007 when unveiling the first iPhone. “Are you getting it? These are not three separate devices. This is one device.”
So-called smartphones existed before the iPhone, but many of them were unwieldy and expensive. IBM’s Simon, which launched in 1994 and is widely regarded as the world’s first smartphone, had a touch screen and even supported basic applications like email, an alarm clock, a to-do list and faxing. But it weighed more than a pound, cost around $1,000, and wasn’t very intuitive.
With a dynamic touch-friendly interface and a central repository for discovering new applications, the iPhone was unlike any other mobile device. But the influence of the App Store — which launched in July 2008 to support the iPhone 3G’s release a few months before Android’s own marketplace debuted — can’t be overstated. It’s the reason we can summon taxis without speaking a word, dispatch magically disappearing photos and transfer digital payments with the press of a button. The Ubers, Snapchats and Venmos of the world wouldn’t exist without smartphones, and the iPhone was and remains the category’s foundation.
The iPhone did more than change the way cellphones were designed, it both revitalized and redefined the category. It carved out the notion that technology could be a status symbol, and with each iteration somehow elevated its allure such that buyers were willing to pay boutique prices.
After the iPhone’s launch, smartphones quickly adopted slick, candy-bar shaped frames with touch screens. Google famously rebuilt its first Android phone from the ground up after Apple’s keynote. “Holy crap, I guess we’re not going to ship that phone,” said Android creator Andy Rubin after watching the presentation, according to journalist Fred Vogelstein in his book Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution.
"There was a conversation between two people; one said that everything he wanted to write about had already been written by others, while the other person said that everything he wanted to write about might have already been written, but not by him." Go for it!
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Reference
Lisa Eadicicco; June 29,2017, TIME.com