Million Dollar Babies (Part I)

Ideas are like babies. When you get them, you feel the simple excitement that a baby feels in a happy moment. The possibilities seem infinite in those moments. If you take your ideas seriously, you’ll nurture and protect them until they’re standing on their own, off and running.
Who wouldn’t want to see that sprint end with seven or more figures at the finish line? If everybody could generate million dollar business ideas, who wouldn’t?
If only everybody knew they could if they just learned how to do it. Generating ideas is a skill. It’s a rare skill. It’s a lucrative skill. Whether you’re looking for a new business to get into or you want to find new opportunities within your current business field, your biggest problem isn’t finding ideas. It’s choosing between all the amazing opportunities you’ve got in front of you. Good or good?
To narrow down all the options, choose a field that you love. It’s got to be the right business for you! If you don’t like the business or product, are you going to be very passionate and enthusiastic about it? That’s why passion is so important. Passion is your energy! And what are people buying? They’re buying the energy and if you’re not excited and passionate in what you’ve got there’s no way you can market or sell it.
Also, think about people’s two primary motivators … pleasure and pain. Which is stronger? Avoiding pain! If there’s a problem people want it solved. So there we have the definition of an entrepreneur: a person who solves problems at a profit!
Another way to create million dollar ideas is to improve something. Nothing is perfect. That means every single thing can be improved! Everything of the millions or billions or trillions of products and services out there can be made or done better. All you have to do is find the way! So you have at least a million business opportunities right there.
By the way, why is improving a product or a concept even better than creating it from scratch? It’s already a proven entity, a proven market. You don’t have to spend a fortune educating anyone. They’re already buying it. There’s a good chance that if you make it better they’ll buy it from you.
Let somebody else educate the heck out of them and then you come in when they are already educated. You’ll have the money left over to expand while the first guys spent all their money educating. It’s better to be second than first!
There’s a saying: you can always tell the pioneers because they’re the ones with the arrows in their backs. I didn’t make up that one up. I’m just saying.
Ideas are not as hard to come by as people make them out to be. With a little focus, knowledge, awareness and insight, anyone can literally create a million dollar baby!
Now it’s your turn! Do you have any experience with an idea coming to fruition? Or regrets about an idea you had that someone else soon after made happen? It’s your turn to share your insights and experiences. Your sharing could generate even more ideas!
Next week we’ll look at three more ways to generate million dollar ideas.
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Ideas are like babies. When you get them, you feel the simple excitement that a baby feels in a happy moment. The possibilities seem infinite in those moments. If you take your ideas seriously, you’ll nurture and protect them until they’re standing on their own, off and running.

Who wouldn’t want to see that sprint end with seven or more figures at the finish line? If everybody could generate million dollar business ideas, who wouldn’t?

If only everybody knew they could if they just learned how to do it. Generating ideas is a skill. It’s a rare skill. It’s a lucrative skill. Whether you’re looking for a new business to get into or you want to find new opportunities within your current business field, your biggest problem isn’t finding ideas. It’s choosing between all the amazing opportunities you’ve got in front of you. Good or good?

To narrow down all the options, choose a field that you love. It’s got to be the right business for you! If you don’t like the business or product, are you going to be very passionate and enthusiastic about it? That’s why passion is so important. Passion is your energy! And what are people buying? They’re buying the energy and if you’re not excited and passionate in what you’ve got there’s no way you can market or sell it.

Also, think about people’s two primary motivators … pleasure and pain. Which is stronger? Avoiding pain! If there’s a problem people want it solved. So there we have the definition of an entrepreneur: a person who solves problems at a profit!

Another way to create million dollar ideas is to improve something. Nothing is perfect. That means every single thing can be improved! Everything of the millions or billions or trillions of products and services out there can be made or done better. All you have to do is find the way! So you have at least a million business opportunities right there.

By the way, why is improving a product or a concept even better than creating it from scratch? It’s already a proven entity, a proven market. You don’t have to spend a fortune educating anyone. They’re already buying it. There’s a good chance that if you make it better they’ll buy it from you.

Let somebody else educate the heck out of them and then you come in when they are already educated. You’ll have the money left over to expand while the first guys spent all their money educating. It’s better to be second than first!


There’s a saying: you can always tell the pioneers because they’re the ones with the arrows in their backs. I didn’t make up that one up. I’m just saying.

Ideas are not as hard to come by as people make them out to be. With a little focus, knowledge, awareness and insight, anyone can literally create a million dollar baby!

Now it’s your turn! Do you have any experience with an idea coming to fruition? Or regrets about an idea you had that someone else soon after made happen? It’s your turn to share your insights and experiences. Your sharing could generate even more ideas!

Next week we’ll look at three more ways to generate million dollar ideas.