“If wishes were horses then beggars would ride” is a quote that I remember hearing at home often while growing up. There is also no use crying over spilled milk. The fact of the matter is, wide open big opportunities are all around us every day and we routinely miss them each and every day. We all have thoughts and dreams. We all have random shower thoughts. The gap to be bridged here is whether or not each of us can first envision how that one big idea would grow into a viable business and then find the motivation to take the first steps down that path and start doing something about it.
Whether it is money or fame, for a sense of passion or a sense of duty everyone that leverages their ambition and pursues these ideas feels the motivation to do so. Therefore, from these statements and the story above we have isolated three key elements that are required for going all carpe diem on a Big Idea: Identification, Vision, and Motivation.