The Time Limit of Ideas

Written 7/9/25

You only have so much time for an idea to be yours. You need to use it.

Ideas are often a result of several factors; time, place, the state of the world, the food you ate for breakfast, and any number of other things. These factors all have an influence over you and your mind. When you come across inspiration and form an idea it's very likely that someone else may soon do so. Ideas are not often truly unique, they pull from factors that many other people are likely experiencing. Thus, if you do not take an idea and execute upon it someone else just might beat you to it.

If you should choose not to engage with the idea you are, in essence, forfeiting your claim upon that idea. The lack of action is an act in itself. To not make a decision is a decision itself. The only way to be sure that your ideas come to life as you see them is to be the one who puts the idea into creation. Then if you should see another similar idea you can take comfort in knowing that you have acted as you could and you did not fail to claim your idea. Your idea is your own, and likely differing in creation from the other individuals. In fact I would argue that those differences are an opportunity to look deeper on the ideas themselves. Perhaps even to collaborate and create a larger idea, a different creation.

That act of creation is the fulfillment of the purpose of the idea. The time limit of that purpose is not infinite. The idea will find its way to creation. This is because the factors leading to the ideas existence are not yours alone, they are the worlds. The creation of the idea, the beckoning of could be into will be and even further into reality, that is the moment of ownership. Prior to the creation there can be no ownership. Ideas are not physical things to be kept in jars. So the time is ticking, and you have to beat the clock if you want to claim the idea as yours.