{"id":20539,"date":"2019-08-20T12:53:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T16:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/honeybook.site.strattic.io\/?p=20539"},"modified":"2022-08-05T05:00:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T12:00:14","slug":"idea-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honeybook.com\/blog\/idea-system","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Stuck? Here&#8217;s How to Finish What You Were Made to Do With The IDEA System"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>People talk about the reality distortion field that Steve Jobs had. He said things were possible when no one else believed him. Sara Blakely\u2014you know how many times she was turned down for funding for Spanx? Something like 50 venture capital meetings. Everyone said no. And when it got to be so many people saying no, she started doing her own seams, in her own sewing machine. Finding vendors that would just do exactly what she asked.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B1pDZ5wHcA6\/<\/div>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Behind Every Successful Person Is an IDEA<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I have deconstructed my own successes and deconstructed the successes of hundreds of other people on my podcast over ten or twelve thousand hours of learning, and I&#8217;ve heard a lot of stories about what it takes to be successful. And I can confidently say that every person that&#8217;s been successful has followed the following path. It&#8217;s a very simple acronym called IDEA.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The IDEA Breakdown<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the system works:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>I = Imagine<\/strong> what&#8217;s possible<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>D = Design<\/strong> a system that can get you there<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>E = Execute <\/strong>that system<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>A = Amplify<\/strong> the results<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>So let&#8217;s break that down. We can do this with any project. For example, let&#8217;s say you want to create a notebook.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>First, you think about it, or <strong>imagine<\/strong> it, right? This is a simple, but powerful concept. There are constraints, and this cost this much, and it&#8217;s on this paper.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>And then you <strong>design<\/strong> the path to get there, and maybe you sit down on the computer and use this program. 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If you don&#8217;t get it out of you, it gets toxic.&#8221; You can get your creativity out in a productive way using IDEA. I did it with a book called <em>The Seattle One Hundred.<\/em> And then I did it with my new book <em>Creative Calling.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativelive.com\/creator-pass?utm_medium=partner&amp;utm_source=honeybook&amp;utm_campaign=leadership-retreat&amp;utm_term=sale-100-creatorpass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20715\" src=\"https:\/\/www.honeybook.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20181203_creatorpassAffiliate_johnnyrandle_digital_1200x630_final.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">First, I Imagined<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I wanted to connect with my community and make something. I had a list of friends and people I could work with, and I would review it every day or week. 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I photographed somebody every week. Scientists and break dancers, restaurateurs \u2026 I had no idea that would be such a deep project.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>But you know what I didn&#8217;t care. I had a big hairy dream, and I imagined something, and this was part of my now designing a plan to get there. For three years, I retouched all the photos, found a publisher, designed this plan, and then I executed against it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next, I Amplified<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>When it came time to publish, I wondered, who can market this book? How about the most interesting and influential people in the city? That was my community. I had spent between two and six hours with these people. I made them look great, I noticed there was a connection that we&#8217;d made; this was a community.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>With my community&#8217;s help, we did it and ended up donating a ton of money to charity.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>This system creates results. 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