Idea’s Are Great But You Have To Be You

It was 2 a.m. on a cold Wisconsin morning, it had just snowed and everything was slippery, it was one of those mornings I wished I was still in bed instead of delivering bread. I had to take three stacks of bread into the store, they were 14 trays high and I had to put them on an electric lift. I put the first stack on and it was way more sliding then I wanted, the second stack went on and my gut told me that was enough. I thought about making two trips but I was way to impatient for that so I put the third stack on the lift and all three fell right off. It was 2 a.m. cold, snowy and I had to pick up 3oo plus loaf’s of bread and bagels, that was the moment I knew I had enough, this was not my true passion or calling!

After a lot of time and prayer and researching, I felt called to teach the everyday working person that you can find work that you love no matter what your experience is or how much schooling you have. I loved to write, so I wrote. I started a blog and wanted to draw traffic and attention to it so I looked into all the major websites of people already doing business online. Logical right?

After a month of doing research and finishing my book I was ready to get to work, so I copied what those major websites were doing, exactly. At first I saw a few results but for the most part I was ignored, it was very discouraging and made me want to quit. I just couldn’t figure out what was going wrong, these guys were killing it online and I was trying to use their playbook.

You may be on a similar path and you will read some amazing blog posts and hear some awesome podcasts and you’ll think all I got to do is what those people are doing and you’ll be successful, I hate to tell you it won’t work. The thing that is going to make you stand out, the thing that is going to make you succeed is you and what’s unique about you.

Use great idea’s as a guide

It’s smart to read amazing blogs and listen to awesome podcasts, it’s smart to read how other’s who have gone before you created success. If you were to interview those people they would tell you they did something that they were passionate about and they did it their way. So when you are researching what area you want to change, use what you read or listen to as a guide that you will add your own unique personality to create a path to success.

With some much great material available to us it’s a little easier to get a guide to success, the internet makes so many more things possible. Use this material to help you create a path for success and take action on that plan today. This is going to be the most productive year of your life if you take action, so what are you waiting for?

Have you ever tried to copy someone else? How do you make your path unique?

P.S. If you have a few minutes, check out a special interview I did today about following your dreams: http://tcavey.blogspot.com/2012/04/interview-with-kimanzi-constable-chance.html