Ideas Matter, Outcomes Measure.

Today is not that unusual from any other day. Even before I crawl out of bed, I often have several ideas that seem terrific and caliber enough to sit-up and take note. Alongside my bed, on my nightstand, I quickly grab my pen and jot down notes of my ideas. If I don’t write them down they can quickly fade. Poof, they are forever lost! 

Ideas flow easy for me, and especially when I am attempting to solve a particular problem that has plagued my mind and troubled my way. Ideas matter, I tell myself often in an attempt to console my awakened thoughts because seldom do my ideas become extraordinary. I am keen on the path to make a difference in my own creative way. I believe that my ideas make a difference but in reality, only a few really stick.

Ideas, like phantoms and even like a fog in the early morning, which is surrounded by darkness; they appear but only for a few fleeting moments. People have gained a great reputation and have secured their future by patents that came from ideas. Many have crafted entire industries that have revolutionized our current conveniences but those are truly rare commodities. Ideas do matter but there is one thing that is even more vital.

Actions speak louder than words, is a phrase people often use which motivates us. It is when we take our ideas and put action to practical steps that separate them from the ordinary. Outcomes truly measure. It is in the steps that follow your ideas that make a difference. It changes the ordinary into an extraordinary substance of the abstract to the concrete. ideas are but only the first step.

Random thoughts are only part of the equation that unravels the befuddled mind; organizing and categorizing useful information. As ideas are put in order and actions that follow can progress really be made. While actions can be measured, it is ideas that have to finish its work to began the process.

So, the next time you have a brilliant idea, stop and further envision the steps it will take to achieve a measurable outcome. No big idea stands on its own! 

The next time your inspired thoughts create and espouse ideas, realize that your first action step is most vital. 

The next time you promote your idea you will also need to enlist a set of actions that breath life into your dreams.

Ask yourself, what can I do with this idea that can enhance the overall plan? 

Ask yourself, how can this idea be attached to a practice next step that is measurable?

The Lord will always inspire ideas that matter yet will He equip us with actions that measure outcomes. Could it be that God created us for action that should bring him glory?

Scripture provides inspired direction: 

• God’s idea was followed by action.

Genesis 1:27-28

So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”

• We, like a fog are here but for a moment but what will last is what God does through us.

James 4:14-15

How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.”

• Actions measure success. 

Psalms 37:2-3

For like grass, they soon fade away.

Like spring flowers, they soon wither.

Trust in the LORD and do good.

Then you will live safely in the land and prosper.