BRX Pro Tip: How to Move From Idea to Action
Stone Payton: [00:00:00] And, we are back with Business RadioX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, let’s visit, if we can, this process of going from simply having an idea to taking action.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:16] Yeah. If people are like me, they have tons of ideas but they don’t execute anywhere near the amount that they could if they really wanted to do this, this is an experiment you can try. It takes an hour to do this experiment from start to finish. So, this is a way that if you want to really narrow down and make hard choices and actually execute a plan, you can do this in one hour.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:41] So, here is the plan. Set a timer, 15 minutes, and then start listing ideas. That’s it, 15 minutes start listing your ideas, then pick, at the end of the 15 minutes, pick your top three ideas. Okay. Once you’ve done that, set a timer for 30 minutes and then sketch out a rough outline, a one-page action plan for each of your three ideas. And, all you have to do is include in this action plan the pros and cons of taking that action. That’s it. So, 10 minutes each, you got your three ideas. Ten minutes each for each one of them. Write a one-page plan. These are the pros and cons of doing each one of these things.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:25] Then, finally, the last thing you do. Now, you have three pages, three mini business plans of three different ideas. Now, send those three pages to three business colleagues, friends that you trust their opinion, you respect their opinion, and ask them to read through each of those three and to choose the best ideas/plan for you. And, you tell them that look, whatever you pick – you know, I’m sending this out to three people. Whatever the consensus picks, that’s what I’m going to be starting on Monday and then just do it.
Lee Kantor: [00:02:03] And, this way you have a structure. You have things you can execute. You can get the idea out of your head. You’re going to kind of play out some scenarios, some trade-offs, and you’re going to send it to somebody who’s going to help you make a decision and you’re going to take action. So, in one hour, you can move three of your ideas from in your head to into the real world if you kind of do this plan.
