Let's face it, we all like to be "the idea person." Coming up with creative ideas is fun, challenging and often exciting. But if you want to start a business that will support you, or even bring you wealth, even great ideas are not enough. We must learn to execute on those ideas and that, if we are not careful, is where the fun can end and the "work" begins. Though it doesn't have to be that way.

One of the big problems I have with many business books and CEO interviews is that they tell us that we must constantly innovate, but rarely teach us how. Lot's of people have great ideas but fail to execute on them. It is the marriage of those two thoughts gave me an idea (smirk), actually, it was a conversation over lunch with Wendi that sparked the idea and it is one that will help me further focus my writing for you.

My goal here isn't just to help you get your small business up and running, though we'll spend plenty of time talking about the "how tos" of doing just that, but rather, my ambition is to help you come up with great ideas, to share ideas and ultimately to cultivate and execute on those ideas, and all the while have a helluva good time doing it! I'm also going to pick one of my own ideas, and share it with you start to finish, in as much detail as I can stand so we can execute together.

Like most of you I have no shortage of good ideas, it's making them real that is the challenge, and it is learning to do so, and in turn teaching how to do so, that is our commission.

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