The BIG Idea!

So what's the Big idea?

Everyone has one. You have one. An idea that has been floating around in your head that you would love to see manifest, but is held back by the physical necessities of life. Time, money, people...something always holds back our Big ideas. Many times we think that it's even silly to entertain these Big Ideas, maybe because they don't have much usefulness, or perhaps they might be TOO BIG. Other times, the Big Ideas take the role of games around the table, 'what if' stories that we tell each other for entertainment.

But here's the problem with Big Ideas: They don't go no where unless they are shared. You can't tell if an idea is a good one or a bad one unless it gets out of your head, either in words, art, or actions. Ideas mean nothing if not set free from the confines of our skull.

Let's face it, out of all the ideas in the world, only a few manifest the way that they were originally envisioned. Most get tweaked, revamped, reworked, and resubmitted. While me might all like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, that will never actually happen and we all know it. BUT...we might find a catchy song lyric in the process of airing our Big Ideas. Or a good photo opp. Or an inspiration for the next garden bed we dig.

So here's the deal:
Post your Big Ideas here. Not necessarily on MY blog, but on your own. Or on your Facebook or Twitter page. Or if you wanna just leave them as a comment here, that's good too. But share them with the world behind the anonymity of screen and keyboard. No matter how silly, how weird, how unintelligent you might think they are, if you have plans that involve more than you can bring to the table, you must share them somehow, somewhere. If, however, you have the BEST IDEA IN THE WORLD, you'll never know if you don't put it out there somewhere.

Oh, and no criticism of other people's ideas; you can add to an idea, and you can offer updates and changes to an idea, but you cannot BASH an idea. If someone finds fault in anyone else's idea, please be specific and courteous in drawing attention to the error.

I'm not sure who first said this, but I read in via Ann Landers: Small minds talk about people. Moderate minds talk about events. Big minds talk about ideas. The internet has given us the power to share ideas instantly, to become one big brain across the planet. Seriously, if you think of neurons like the individuals networked together via the internet, you can see that the more connections we make, the smarter the planet gets. And what's more intriguing than someone else's ideas? (one answer to that: Selling someone else on your own idea!)

So here's my Big Idea:
Inspire everyone to share their best ideas with everyone else, which will inspire even better ideas, thus expanding networking capacity and increasing exponentially the sum total of human knowledge.

Great idea, eh? But I can't do it without help. So take my Big Idea and turn it into your Big Idea.

Example of a Big Idea:
If we made all the polluting and resource stripping factories businesses actually figure in the cost of repairing the environmental destruction that is the legacy of their business practices into their business models, two things would happen: environmentally sensitive areas would become too expensive to exploit, and businesses would be making an honest profit, not one that rapes the future generation's resources. Lumber companies would pay for replanting mixed use forests, oil companies would pay to clean up all spills every time as well as the approximate value of all dead wildlife. Toxic waste dumps would be filtered and cleaned up at the cost of the corporation, and not the taxpayer. I don't know how to implement this, but it's possible to start with a grass-roots movement...like all Big ideas do.