Ideas are thoughts about a potential course of action, typically for beneficial purposes.  Ideas can also be philisophical and highly conceputal both with a mental image or etherial perspective.

For todays post I am focusing on the more material form of ideas, those that can be converted to reality.  That is, the potential is acted on and ultimately beneficial gain is realized (monetary or otherwise).

Inventing

Often the conversion of an idea to reality is termed as the process of invention but this is not always the case.  Invention implies the idea has a newness to it, i.e, never seen before, unique, innovative.

Inventing can be a profession ranging from creating and patenting the idea without making it a reality, to actual building and implementing the idea, that is acting as an entreupreneur.

 Implementing Ideas

Arguably  the most satisfying process is not the ideas inception, rather implementing the action arising from the idea and of course reaping the benefits thereof.

This is the journey from the germination of the idea to conceptualization and finally reality.  Like many journeys it can be long and tiring, can have frustrating moments and even times when you wonder why you even started.

The key here is overcoming the motivation not to act.  Often the getting the idea is as far as it goes.  For those few that take the journey and overcome the challenges the satisfaction can be high.

Of course it could lead to failure, willingness to accept the risk is, of course, one of the key barriers to taking an idea to fruition.  Ths can be offset by the pleasure of the journey.