Lizzy and I recently went to lunch with Josh James. We asked him what kinds of things he reads, and he listed off a bunch of magazines, including Forbes. So I decided to give it a whirl and bought an issue to look over. It just so happened that the issue I picked up was about billionaires–people like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and Mark Zuckerberg–and what they did to be so successful.
And then I thought to myself: I can do that.
No, really. Bill Gates started out as a regular guy stealing computer time at the local college. And Mark Zuckerberg? Well, we all know his story. It hasn’t even been 10 years since Facebook launched and it’s about to go public for an estimated $100 Billion dollars–not too shabby. And Josh James started Omniture while he was a student at BYU.
So where do I fit in? I’m just a regular guy with the potential to do something awesome. There’s absolutely no reason I can’t make the next “Facebook”–something to revolutionize the way we communicate, interact, shop online, do our laundry, fix our cars, get to work, watch TV, rent movies, or do DIY projects. The list of things to do is literally endless and it’s just a matter of finding the right thing and running with it.
But finding that right thing isn’t always easy. In fact, finding the right thing usually involves finding the wrong thing many times. But if you think of every possible idea or thing as a two-sided coin, with either a positive or a negative outcome, all you have to do is keep flipping the coin and you’re bound to get a positive result. The biggest mistake you can make is not flipping the coin at all.
I can do that.
