Being an Idea Person Is a Curse!

Posted on April 8th, 2008 in Self-Development, jomread, motivation, systematic

I’m an idea person and believe me; it’s marvelous! Without fail I can come out with a lot of ideas, every single times. A lot of them are plainly stupid, some of them are good, and one or two might be really great.

Few people envy me, some think I’m lucky and a lot of them think:

“I got better ideas than you”

As much as I’m grateful with this gift, it’s also my biggest weaknesses.

Having a lot of ideas tend to make me lost focus and sidetracked before I could even say, DUPLICATE!

Every time I come out with new interesting idea, I will, without fail, sabotage it by thinking too far ahead. I will easily come up with ideas on how this project will evolve, how many features I can put in, amazing integration with existing projects and a lot of future upgrades.

I even think of solutions to problem that I might be facing in future. Can you imagine that? I barely started the project yet I’ve spent so much energy into solving problems that not even existed yet, heck, it might not even be a problem at all.

Before I know it, the project bloated with features and I’ll be overwhelmed with a lot of task. I will make an easy quit and just let the project fails.

So for JomRead Project, I’m doing a very systematic way to get things done. It’s a simple yet duplicable system.

I have one big goal in mind for JomRead, but in order to achieve it, I’ll break it down to smaller goals and missions. So every day I just do one small simple thing for JomRead. Most of the missions can be done within an hour. Everyday I’ll achieve small goals.

And by tasting success everyday, I get motivated everyday too! Everything seem a lot simpler when you do it one step at a time.

For example, we started with Facebook Page first then only decide; hey, wouldn’t it be better if we have our own domain name?

Or, we decided to ignore the potential problem of not having enough books because for now we don’t even have any members. Having one book at this time can be considered as a surplus, therefore there’s no such problem as not having enough books.

That’s the best thing about setting small goals and missions. If I make a mistake or fail to achieve a goal, the impact will be less threatening to the project as a whole. And like I said continuous successes no mater how small, will continually motivate people.

So there you go, simple system that I hope can be duplicated throughout the entire development of JomRead Project.

Cheers!

Update: I spent an hour a day doing things I enjoy doing with JomRead Project

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