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This post will be rather short. I just want to lay out some ideas which I might continue at some other time.

So How can I successfully develop an Idea?

I found out through experience, that it is quite easy to come up with good ideas. I think that most people will say that this is probably the hardest thing but I would have to argue. It is the easiest, mainly because we are quite suited to use our imagination. In fact, there are numerous good strategies which you can use in order to give birth of all kinds of cool, exciting and quite useful ideas.

Coming up with a good idea is the easy but implementing it is quite hard. Unless you have a proper strategy and focus your idea is doomed to failure. It took me a while to figure this out. I would say that most ideas simply fail because people don’t know where to start and they don’t know how to handle them properly. In the next part of this post, I will give some tips, which work well for me. Do not take them for granted. You might need to develop your own methodology if the following one does not suit you well.

First thing first. Before jumping into any work, try to see whether it is worthed. I know that you might be excited but trust me, you better waste some time now then feeling sorry later. Doing something for fun is OK but doing something for fun that is quite useful is even better. Have an experiment just to verify that your idea could turn to be successful. So how people will react on it. Once you have some data, you can move to step two.

You need to set your idea goals. It sounds silly but this part is essential. If you don’t have a goal you will be chaotic and you will soon give up on the idea due to lack of interest and high doze of stress. Set your goal, but also set a good measurement to indicate when the goal is completed. Some people know how to set their goals but they have no idea about their progress. That is why you need a proper measurement. Make sure that your measurement is sound and it works well for your goal.

Once you have a goal and a sound measurement, split the process of achieving the goal in smaller tasks. The smaller their are the better. You can even make them ridiculously small. For example, if your goal is to write something like a paper or a blog post, or maybe even a book, start with the simplest task: pick a pen. Put that as task number on your daily schedule. It is very easy task but at the same time once you achieve it, it will motivate you go further.

Measure your progress constantly and reward yourself for the good work no matter how small it may seem. That will keep you motivated. If you start feeling bored of your idea but you feel like you have to continue doing it, then try to make it more fun. Change your working environment or do your tasks in slightly different way. Use your imagination.

I hope that this post was helpful.