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Oh the internal agony of this cycle: think I must have a good idea to make money -> no one wants the idea -> think I need a better idea -> get fed up and just need to make money -> slightly begin the process -> start trying to find the best idea again -> realize no one wants it -> and on and on

This is what @amyhoy.bsky.social refers to as the fail cycle I believe. To have the wisdom of amy and @alexhillman.com in their 30x500 course but slip into ideas 95% of the time. I need a MotivAider that Kathy Sierra mentions in her book to gently nudge me every 30seconds to forget ideas

So much of life is spent approaching it as "if I just had the right idea" only to then realize no one wants the idea but to then have a devil/angel bickering inside over "I just need to make money" to then be led back to "I need a good idea". Must....break....free...

In today's world you don't drift into proven processes, you drift into slop. Cultivating and working the muscles to not drift off track is so, so hard.

I literally found myself today frustrated with a given scenario, and messaged a friend and said, give me a good idea I know better. But it is so so easy to think the right idea brings the desired outcomes.

I'm gonna build a sales safari chrome extension that is a browser MotivAider for myself Every few seconds, get a gentle visual/auditory nudge to remind myself "Hey, are you thinking about ideas or are you reading people's pain?" "Are you validating a perceived pain or real pain?"

If you don’t mind unsolicited advice, I’ve been in the same situation as you and it does get easier with time. It’s a new skill and it’s frustrating because it sounds straightforward enough and you understand what you need to be doing, but it just takes practice…