It seems the one thing the world is in desperate need of right now is growth. Our politicians crave it, our economy needs it and the world depends upon it. Growth can solve the debt crisis and has the power to keep people in office. Our country needs growth.
What I find interesting is that growth comes from us all, governments can’t make it, banks can’t fund it, growth comes from the general public. When we decide to splash out on a treat, that helps create growth. Our economies have grown so well for the last decade because we have had deep pockets. Now our pockets are not so deep and we find ourselves conserving money and paying back the cash we splashed for a decade.
Beyond the financial growth we need, there is a personal growth we all need to discover, whatever walk of life, whatever social background, rich, poor old or young, we all need to grow as people.
I meet a lot of people with great ideas, wonderful ideas, world changing ideas, but our problems are not a lack of ideas, our issues are not around our creativity, but our biggest problem as human beings is our ability to birth our idea into reality.
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines. Steve Jobs
What we lack in growth can only come by bringing our ideas into reality, growth in an economic sense requires ‘new money’. When Labour Party left office, it was clear they had exhausted their bank of ideas. When you run out of ideas, you cannot create growth personally or economically.
Our lives and our world begins to crumble when two things happen, people sit on their ideas and when people decide to settle for the status quo (not the band). If we are not birthing ideas as individuals, we will not grow, we’ll stagnate.
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Just because others do not ‘get’ you idea does not mean its no good, sometimes ideas have to be fought for, sometimes we have to stand behind something despite opposition to see it come to be. Sometimes for ideas to be birthed, we have to step out of our comfort zone and take a risk. Growth comes from new ideas and new thinking, conventional thinking didn’t see our economic woes coming, so be assured that conventional thinking isn’t always right.
Your growth, your breakthrough will come from an idea which has been planted into our mind, it’s your idea, but as long as it stays as an idea, it’s potential is only theoretical. Contained ideas will never help anyone, its only when we decide to put all our efforts and mission into it, that it can birth and begin to grow.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. KennedyAll growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Henry Miller
You have just a short time in this life, so you have a choice, sit it out waiting for your big breakthrough or you can just go for it, not recklessly, but strategically. All problems in life are just hurdles to overcome, in every problem there is an opportunity.
If you are resolute in your idea and mission, if you believe with all your heart in your dreams, you have to pursue them relentlessly. At the end of our days, in our last moments, we all want to be able to say, “I lived for my dreams”
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger – but recognize the opportunity.
Don’t use danger as an excuse to stop growing, danger is just something to be careful of it is not meant to hold you back. So what is stopping you?