Sunday, February 21, 2021

7 Ways To Crystallize Your Ideas


Perhaps you’ve struggled in the past with achieving your goals. You’ve written down what you want to do, your plans and all the lofty ideas that came to your mind. But all seems to no avail. Up until now, you’ve not achieved anything with them, and you wonder if success or greatness is truly for you or it’s just a nightmare. You hear of other people’s success stories and they motivate you to take action, but not long enough, you die in the process. Alas, all these could be frustrating and depressing. I understand. But how do you actually crystallize your ideas and make them overcome the opposing forces? What exactly is the secret that makes anyone achieve their goals despite the opposition? What do the successful people know that the unsuccessful don’t? Don't go anywhere, I'll explain that in this article. 

I believe the beginning of solving any problem is asking the right questions. Just like the beginning of curing any disease is diagnosing it so that you can give the right treatment. It would be much easier to solve a problem if the cause is known and that would be through asking the right questions. 

To crystallize your ideas, there are some truths that you must know. Research has shown that more than 80% of what drives us into action is psychological and just less than 20% is physical. In other words, if your mind is set on achieving goals, your body would automatically follow. Forget about the fact that you don’t have the physical capacity to do some certain things. If your mind is set enough, you would be shocked at what your body can do. 

Just a simple scenario, imagine you are walking on a street, and all of a sudden, a fierce lion came from a corner and roared at you, ready to consume you. What would you do? I’m sure you wouldn’t have time to think about that. You would move at a speed that you could have only imagined. Even if you have pains in your body, you wouldn’t feel anything until you escaped the scene. Now, what happened? Where did you get the strength? If you are like most people, you would say your body. But people who understand more know that it’s the mind that does the job. 

All these while, your body has been there and it has not achieved that level of feat. But the moment something that would challenge your mind came up, you suddenly received the strength to run at a pace that you could have only imagined. That’s the same thing that happens with achieving your goals. Your ideas are potential feats that you need some level of motivation to ginger your mind to achieve them. This is not a question of capacity. It is a question of knowledge. It is what you know that determines how much you achieve in life. One thing that always differentiate the rich from the poor is knowledge. It is also what differentiate high achievers from low achievers. So, the question is- how much do you know? And that’s what will differentiate you from the rest, and make you achieve your long-awaited goals. Here are 7 things you must know if you want to crystallize your ideas. 

1. Know what you want; I can’t emphasize this long enough, you must know what you want and be sure about it. There are many people who still don’t know what they want. Their ideas are vague and unspecific. They would tell you general things that you’ve always been hearing from others. Nothing new. And that’s because they don’t really know what they want. They just feel they should want something that others want. They don’t know why they want it. They are not convinced or internally persuaded of the genuinety of their want. And that’s why people can easily talk them out of it because they don’t know. It’s just a game of guesswork and bandwagon. With that, they’re not going to achieve anything tangible. So, you must know what you want. 

2. Know where you are: One important thing you must know for yourself is where you are. You must do a thorough and critical assessment of where you are right now, without bullshitting yourself or putting yourself on a baseless hope. You’ve got to know your current status. Where are you right now? What are the things that you still need to learn and improve on? What are the areas that you need to develop yourself more? These are questions that you must genuinely answer for yourself. It doesn’t make complete sense to just know where you want to be without knowing where you are now. Because that would create a gap that would be difficult for you to bridge and attain your desired goals. 

3. Know who you are; This has to do with your identity. As statistics has shown that many people still have identity crises. They either undervalue or overvalue themselves. But there must be balance in everything. You must know who you are more than what anyone could ever tell you. The only person that should know more things about you is you. Because no other person spends more time with you than you. So, you must take time to discover yourself and solve the identity challenge. Knowing who you are is not all those religious bullshits that people just say general things that everybody is familiar with. But coming to full awareness of yourself. Understanding your uniqueness in this world and what is your exact role here that differentiate you from others. With close to 8 billion people we have in the world today, none of us has a duplicated purpose. It means nobody is like you and would ever be like you. So, everybody has different purpose and vision in life. So, dedicate time into discovering yourself. Know your gifts, talents, strengths, weaknesses, personality, temperament, mindsets, beliefs, ideologies, idiosyncrasies, attitudes and so on. The amazing thing is that you can never know too much of yourself. There would always be something new to know about yourself. And that’s what you must know. I challenge you to discover who you are. It’s going to be one of the greatest discoveries of your life. 

4. Know what you have; What do you have? You may tell me, “Oh I don’t have anything?” “Not even money”. But I want to tell you that you have something. And not just few things, but many things and in fact, unimaginable things. Just imagine the way your brain has over 85 billion nerve cells that compute different functions that your brain performs. And science has shown us that there’s no limit to how much functions and ideas that our brain can execute. You have more than what you think. I’m not one of those people who will hype and puff you up with all unlimited abilities crap. But I know you have some unique abilities that can benefit the world. You have unique personalities, character, ideas, gifts, strengths,that will automatically catapult you to greatness if you use them. When you know what you have, your perception about what you can do will change. And that would boost your confidence on achieving your goals. Don’t rest on your laurels or sleep on your dreams. Wake up and begin to maximize all that you have to your advantage. No one would do that for you except you. Go ahead and do it. 

5. Know the “Whys”: Why do you want to achieve your goals? Why is fulfilling your purpose important to you? Some of your whys could sound obvious. But you want to go deeper than just the superficial that everybody talks about. You just don’t want to be on the surface and live a surface life. You want to be intentional and directional. People value people who work with vision and purpose. They support people who know what they are doing and why they are doing it. Think for a moment about things that you are doing right now. Have you asked yourself that obvious question? Why are you doing it? Don’t just give superficial answer. Go more than what any person could think, and find real value in what you are doing. Although, you don’t need to convince everyone of what you are doing. If you know what you are doing, the result would soon show. And knowing the why of what you do would make all the difference. That would help you in putting your attention and valuable time into it, which would give you more desirable result. 

6. Plan: Many people have not understood the power of planning yet. They just think it is for serious things. Maybe you want to do business, or do an event/occasion. That’s when you need a plan. But nothing is farther from the truth. Planning is a simple way to organize your life. Have you seen the difference between an organized room and a disorganized one before. Everybody loves to stay in an organized room. Everything is in order. If you are looking for something, you know instantly where you can find it. If something is missing, you can easily find it and in fact, if there’s a mess, it can easily be cleaned up. But none of these could be possible or rather difficult with a disorganized room. It would suck from you extra time and energy, if not extra expenses. Your life must be organized if you want to enjoy it and also allow other people to value it. People have no respect for people who are disorganized. And that’s seen from their personality and character. They don’t know what they are doing. They would tell you something now, and tell you another thing minutes after. They are not just stable and organized. For such people, what they need is to calm down and settle their mind. Let them withdraw from activities and begin to organize themselves. They should have time to plan their life. What exactly do they want and how do they want to achieve it. Planning will sort out your life, even in the midst of chaos and uncertainties. Make sure you do it. 

7. Take action: Having planned, it’s now time to take action. Don’t sleep on all that you’ve learnt. Having knowledge is just the beginning. Taking action is the most important thing. Because the knowledge that you have without action is as good as not having it. You are not different from those who don’t have that knowledge. But the evidence that you know something is in the result. So, always follow your knowledge with action. Perhaps, you’ve found out many things about yourself and where you are. Now, it’s time for action. Look at your environment and see the change you need to start making now. What problem do you want to solve. What need do you want to meet. Start working on it. 

From all these seven things, you will realize that what you need to know forms the bulk of the information and give you the mental capacity and readiness to crystallize your ideas. Ideas are intangible resources. So, you need intangible element like knowledge to execute them, followed by your action. The sky is the limit to what you can achieve with your lofty ideas. Go ahead and achieve them.

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