It was brought to my attention somewhat recently that ideas are organic things. This was actually brought to my attention by an idea nonetheless. This might have been common knowledge to you or others who might read this but not to myself. I had thought ideas were more cold, mechanical things like nuts, bolts and gears brought to form by the factory of our minds. Now I envision them something gently alive akin to wisps, foam bubbles or maybe dandelion seedheads. For a while I had been collecting ideas, hording them waiting for the time or the money to actually pursue them. Occasionally popping my head in on them while they sleep, looking to see if their chest is still moving up and down hoping there still is the life in them that I felt when they first came into my my mind. Well looking at this behavior now upon recent information I have been terribly neglectful. Like a person who own’s an underfunded zoo or plants in a seldom visited room. I’ve been keeping organic things against their will. They came to me in the hope in finding some sort of way into this realm through me but because of my weaknesses I’ve left them emaciated in their cages.

I’m hoping to change this now. I’m incredibly fortunate in the fact that ideas come to me fairly regularly. Some good , some middling and some just not for me. Like certain types of people just because we’re not compatible it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have the opportunity to be made alive and whole in this world. I believe these things arrive at my door because I’ve tried in the past to make these ideas something special. I’ve done a certain amount of internal work that allows for and recognizes these moments when ideas present themselves. I give off to these ideas, at least initially, a welcoming environment that celebrates them and their arrival so they’ve told their friends and they keep coming. But I’ve I made a lot of mistakes. Like a lot. I was impatient and selfish ignoring common sense and good judgment. Sometimes I just executed the idea poorly. But I sincerely tried. I really did. Luckily ideas are understanding. They get what they’re asking and they know perfection isn’t attainable. What they really value is effort, truth and sincerity. If the ideas flickers in this world and is snuffed out because nobody else bought into it it’s typically because one of these ingredients were missing. Or it just wasn’t the ideas time yet. It could have been one of those building block ideas that when a larger idea comes through one can look back and see why certain ideas had to die in order for this newer, better idea had to live.

This all being said I don’t think it is fair to hoard these ideas for myself. Unfair to the ideas but also unfair to people who are looking for ideas themselves. Ideas are out greatest currency and I believe in the power that freely giving something of value has and I want to see if this holds true with ideas as well. I want to experiment and see what happens when I let free the thing that culture values the most.

I’m going to, from time to time, put up ideas that I’ve had or am having that could possibly become something more. Maybe a business, a book or an invention. I typically do some research on the ideas when I first get them. “Is anyone else doing this?”, “Is this new?”, “How much would this cost?” are just some of the things that I typically ask before moving forward. I’ll post these ideas with some of these questions already answered as well as what roadblocks I encountered when trying to move forward with them. Maybe you’ll have the answer that I don’t. Regardless feel free to take these ideas or leave them. Play with them if you’d like or not. Run them through your own factory and see what comes out. Or maybe you know someone looking for an idea and can pass it on to them. I’m just the guy in front of the grocery store with my litter of free ideas hoping someone will take them off my hands. Wouldn’t your kid like a nice idea for Christmas? So please feel free to look around and take what you’d like. Ideas need to be freed.

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