Thursday, June 10, 2010
Creating Creativity
Let's see. I have determined that I am lacking in creativity. I always try to think of the next obsession to have. I have the ability to pick my obsession and then become consumed by it. That is how RideSearch was born. I have skills but now that I am older I am trying to figure out how to use them to its full capacity. I think my next project is going to have one thing my other projects haven't had - profits. I thought, well, why not try the stock market? I suppose since it is going down it is a good time to buy and I don't have to actually do anything, but the problem is you really have no way of meeting any kind of projected output and I have no skills in the market. I could easily lose money and that would go against my goal.
I think my biggest thing is I want to be rewarded for my efforts. I was never rewarded for past projects and that has increased my desire to have a business or investment pay off. I was actually perusing my business model for RideSearch the other day. I haven't worked on it since Feb of 2009. I would have been profitable had I finished developing the product. I was going to charge $450 a year to companies to have their own carpooling management site internally and externally. That was a good idea. But I learned that the effort to build it required passion and I had lost that. Say I had built it, how was I going to sell it to other companies? Without passion for it I could not even attempt to sell it. Without passion for it I cannot even put the site up for sale. However, I did have 21 users sign up the other day. That is pretty good for doing nothing.
Anyways, so, new projects. I thought about making a game. Then I realized how long it would take and decided against it. Then I thought about a snow cone stand in Plano, then who would operate it? I thought about trying to make some music again and selling an album, but I have lost my creativity. The same is true for writing a novel. A burger stand is also a good idea cause I think I make good burgers, but everyone thinks their burger is the best. Maybe making a product and selling it solely on the internet. That always works, but what product could it be? What would the initial investment cost? As I have ran out ideas I realize the first step in all of this is one thing - get my creativity back. So sayeth the yellow labrador retriever floating above my head with a spatula in his paw.
I think my biggest thing is I want to be rewarded for my efforts. I was never rewarded for past projects and that has increased my desire to have a business or investment pay off. I was actually perusing my business model for RideSearch the other day. I haven't worked on it since Feb of 2009. I would have been profitable had I finished developing the product. I was going to charge $450 a year to companies to have their own carpooling management site internally and externally. That was a good idea. But I learned that the effort to build it required passion and I had lost that. Say I had built it, how was I going to sell it to other companies? Without passion for it I could not even attempt to sell it. Without passion for it I cannot even put the site up for sale. However, I did have 21 users sign up the other day. That is pretty good for doing nothing.
Anyways, so, new projects. I thought about making a game. Then I realized how long it would take and decided against it. Then I thought about a snow cone stand in Plano, then who would operate it? I thought about trying to make some music again and selling an album, but I have lost my creativity. The same is true for writing a novel. A burger stand is also a good idea cause I think I make good burgers, but everyone thinks their burger is the best. Maybe making a product and selling it solely on the internet. That always works, but what product could it be? What would the initial investment cost? As I have ran out ideas I realize the first step in all of this is one thing - get my creativity back. So sayeth the yellow labrador retriever floating above my head with a spatula in his paw.
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