Take a deep breath. I hear you talking about all of the cool things that you want to do. I also see that you aren’t doing them. You might think that I frustrate easily. The reality is that I only get frustrated with people who don’t take action. Do something, anything. There is no time like now and the only person not making it happen is you. It’s really that simple.

The problem with ideas is that they are just ideas. Thinking is fun when you’re in the shower, doing is fun when you are out of the shower. I recommend everyone to seize the day, when you have an idea go and do it. Who cares if you fail, if you learn why you failed then you didn’t fail at all.

In school we were taught that ideas are cheap. Ideas are worth zero, zilch, nada. A good designer has at least a hundred ideas a day. If you come up with an idea and a million other people had the same idea then it probably wasn’t that good of an idea. If say only a hundred other people came up with it then now we’re getting warmer. Regardless, so what if a million people came up with it, probably two of them actually did anything about it.

I think the trick is learning how to catalogue ideas. Not all ideas are good enough to warrant being labeled as a big idea. Some are just details to big ideas. Really good designers bundle a plethora of detail ideas together to make one great cohesive big idea.

Idle ideas are worth nothing, remember that. I’m jealous of artists. I’ll probably get struck down for this over simplification. I’m jealous that they have a specific medium that they can rearrange. They can wake up every morning and just make things happen.

At this very moment I’m listening to the Jenny Lewis album Rabbit Fur Coat on vinyl. The thing that comes to mind as I listen is that this is a person that is so passionate about music that making albums with her band Rilo Kiley wasn’t enough. She woke up one day, picked up her guitar and started simply creating on her own to satiate her hunger. That’s pretty inspiring.

Do not get hung up on ideas. I know it’s hard when you think you’ve got the best idea in the world. If you find out that someone else is doing it or that they flat out “stole it” - that’s your fault. You didn’t act fast enough. On another note who cares if they are doing it, if you feel so adamant about the idea then go ahead and compete with them. A broad idea is just the beginning of an execution. It’s how you implement that makes the world of a difference.

Apple didn’t get stuck on this notion that they were making an MP3 player they focused their attention on making the best portable audio player. As a talented free thinking human with all of the mediocrity in the world I highly doubt that you can’t make it better.

In the real world doing is important. On the internet the same is true doubly so. There are people doing things around the clock every single day. Some of them are getting famous others are just learning through trial and error. Go do something, the end.