The Leggett

“Look at what this guy is doing… I look at this, and think to myself, how can I do that? How can I do what this guy is doing and profit from it? It seems simple enough for anyone to do!”
Here’s a fraction of a conversation I find myself in time and time again with fellow entrepreneurs and independent publishers.

Lots of folks find themselves searching for a path or direction for success in business at one point or another. I cannot say that I haven’t tried myself to find a course to follow. When trying to prepare ones way for success, it seems to be common behavior to look around at what other people are doing, and then try to follow by others examples.

However, this sort of commonality rarely results in any sort of profit. We spend so much time trying to figure out how to be successful that we leave very little time left for originality, and give slight thought to whether or not we should really pursue a specific goal.

Ideas are great, and most successful business models are sculpted from original ones. When we try to imitate an original idea, some quality (at least in terms of innovativeness) is lost. The original retains the power of authority while the reproduced version serves only as a repeat.

The cure for this common mistake when developing an idea is to spend less time studying how others ideas are making them successful. This is not to say that learning from others experiences, mistakes, and limitations is a bad thing… Simply put, as a result of watching, we tend to not let our own ideas and methods fully develop.

It is also imperative that we worry less about success itself, and spend more time understanding what we believe we are called to do. We necessitate the will to do in order to succeed in anything.