I'm full of good ideas!

I have an idea!

In fact, I’m always full of bright ideas, most of them impractical and totally useless but all the same, brilliant thoughts!

The Hubby dreads my ideas. He says they always mean more work for him, expense and usually some difficult DIY task. I disagree, and often accuse him of putting unnecessary obstacles in the way of innovative progress. As you can imagine, those are interesting discussions.

I always get very excited about my ideas, which I am convinced will change my life for ever and in the wider sense will be a force for good for all mankind. Once I get a thought in my head, I am allegedly like a rat on a rag, going on and on about it until I either get my own way or I can be convinced the idea won’t work and is absolute rubbish!

I maintain that when we do go with one of them, they always turn out well and we should have done it years ago. If I’m really honest, I’m not sure that’s always the case but there have been very few notable failures or disasters.

Apparently it’s easy to tell when I’ve got an idea which I’m keen on and want to push through. I become, I’m told, quite single minded. I research extensively (books, web, magazines), talk about it incessantly, pitch it to anyone who will listen and generally waste quite a lot of valuable time on it (I say waste, but of course if you go with it and it turns out to be a Good Thing then it isn’t a waste of time, is it?). I work on my idea at the expense of other things such as work, ironing, cooking dinner, cleaning or whatever. I tweak it and try to overcome objections with a sense of purpose that any self respecting dictator hell bent on taking over Poland would envy. In short, I won’t give up!

You might take the view that being so focused could lead to a life full of disappointments, which would be partially but not entirely true because, every so often, things go right and the idea pays off. And the feeling of elation that I thought of it, I put the wheels in motion and I saw it through beats anything else. It’s a similar feeling to when I direct a successful production, particularly from one of my own scripts (www.mylightproductions.co.uk – check it out!) and see the audience clapping and cheering and laughing at the jokes. A warm, fuzzy feeling because I had the vision and the ideas from the beginning, persuaded others to go along with it and it’s gone well. It genuinely does make you feel great when that happens.

So I will pursue this idea in my usual way. I’m not going to tell you what it is, just in case this is one of the rare occasions when it really is impractical or doesn’t work. But if it does work, you can be sure that you will be some of the first to know about it!