Written by
Adeniyi Oluwaseyi
The quest to start a business is one fundamental need of any aspiring entrepreneur. Even in recent times people who have paid jobs seems to have interest in business and suddenly develop a mind strong enough to venture into enterprises in order to supplement their monthly pay. But one thing seems to be the challenge and that is their inability to bring up an idea. And at times the challenge does not lie in lack of ideas, but their inability to pick them has something meaningful to run with.
Sometime ago a friend met me telling me how he wish to start a business but lack an idea. After much talk I was able to make him understand that he does not lack ideas but he is insensitive enough to pick them up. That’s just the truth, every individual is built in a way that we all have the ability to perceive changes, develop taste, and having the inner ability to come up with new things. These traits are just natural and part of everyone, just that its functionality depends on how well you develop it.
The bed rock of every kind of business is idea. Without idea business will cease to exist. But one fact still stand and this idea are not good enough without it been built, pursued and maximized. The generation of ideas is not really a big deal because we live in idea, speak ideas, eat in ideas, sleep in idea, discuss ideas, play with ideas and sometime sell them out ignorantly for free without us knowing.
The truth also stands that all our existence is based on idea. Without ideas we will all be living in the Dark Age. Without wasting time let me put you through a list of how you can generate ideas with ease. Enjoy:
• Observation: this has been one of the major avenue by which I have generated several ideas. The eye is the window to our mind. So what we see makes up more of what we tend to perceive. Most idea are from what our eye caught on several occasion, some time on the road, street, market place, hospitals etc.
• Replication: there is truly nothing new under the sun. There is nothing you intend to do that someone somewhere has not done before now. Most time we stress the brain on nothing. There are good ideas somewhere that have not been explore in your surrounding for some reasons. Maybe because it has not been discovered by people in your immediate surroundings.
So in order to bring up with something unique in your immediate environs does not need much work. It just needs you to be more sensitive. Most time we travel and see one or two things that amaze us but give no proper attention to it. That which we neglect most time are the keys to the successes we’ve been seeking all day long.
• Intuition/inspiration: am sure you sometime back or even in the present have some flashes of ideas (hutches) through our minds. But the problem most people have is that they are not sensitive enough to pick up these signals. In real sense most of these hutches are not new things but they are things we’ve once encountered in time past that just flashes back through minds.
• Ask: in time past I have given away good ideas conscientiously and unconscientiously. Also I have been privileged to access some very good ideas both in the past and the present because I took the pain to ask people questions. It’s just simple, not too many people will be will to let out ideas, knowledge without been consulted.
• Buy: there are situations where some people with quality ideas will never release what they have to you unless you are willing to part away with something. At times life is met to be in such a manner. You should not always expect everything to be freely given to you. Free food is not the best kind of food to take always because they might be lacking in some vital vitamin and essential nutrients. Always be willing to invest in quality things.
• Partnership: to be financially buoyant and to be rich in ideas are two different things entirely. Some people have the money but lack what to use it for while some others have the ideas but lack the finance to bring it into reality. You can be one of them. Whatever group you belong to, you can find person with the other half of you to compliment you. Just that you should be wise enough to build such partnership on mutual agreement.
• Seek problems: most of the world successful fellows are not super beings, they are just normal people like us who took their time and energy to find a loop hole, a need and thereafter find a way to fill it up. If you can look long enough you will find vital human needs that had not been taken care of. In there lies numerous ideas you can exploit at convenience.
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