Idea gathering is addicting. It’s motivating. It’s exciting.
…It does nothing for you.
Gathering ideas is about as useful as gathering seeds—and I’m not talking about the kind you can eat.
Most of us have an incredible store of seeds that are doing nothing more than taking up space. And yet, what so many of us continue to do is carry on collecting more seeds for our store.
For what? Why? Because you want bigger ones? So you can collect them all? This isn’t Pokémon.
The thing about seeds is that they’re wildly inexpensive and abundant—like ideas. But, even just one seed planted and cared for well, can lead to something valuable. Certainly more valuable than the seed itself.
And it’s in the process of nurturing seeds and bringing plants to life where you learn the most and get the biggest return on your invested time anyway—not from seed collecting.
So, before you go searching for other seeds to collect, how about you plant and begin cultivating some of the seeds you already have?
What if, instead of being a well known collector of inexpensive seeds, you became a well known grower of increasingly valuable plants?