What’s the Big Idea???

I always get frustrated when somebody comes up with an incredibly simple idea that makes millions of dollars in a short period of time and then disappears with their wad of cash to a tropical paradise never to be heard from again. Deep down inside I have always believed that is my destiny.

So far, it hasn’t happened for me.

I didn’t write “Everything Men Know About Women” a book that has sold millions of copies and is filled with nothing but blank pages.

I didn’t come up with “Sh!t My Dad Says.” Mainly because I never really listened to my dad when he was talking, and the sh!t I did hear wasn’t all that funny.

I didn’t create “The Million Dollar Homepage” to sell 1,000,000 pixels (which cost absolutely nothing) for $1 each. I mean, it just doesn’t get any more brilliantly simple than that.

I think I am the kind of person with one of those great ideas that is eventually going to erupt from my mind like a volcano and create massive amounts of wealth for me and my family.

The iBeer app is another great example. Why didn’t I think of that? I love my iPhone. I love beer. I kick myself to this day for not being the first one to put those two together.

Sometimes I convince myself that I’m just too talented for ONE big idea. Sometimes I tell myself, “It’s easy to have one GREAT idea. What’s tough is to come up with several thousand really good LITTLE ideas. Not everyone can sit on a beach. Somebody has to talk on the radio everyday and entertain people with witty, non-income generating tweets. In fact, the reason I haven’t come up with that ridiculously simple, highly lucrative, why-didn’t-I-think-of-that idea is because I have too much talent! I am too creative. God wants me working hard everyday! It would not be fair to keep my incredible abilities from the world and just disappear to a tropical island paradise.”

Then I stumble across a TV show about the inventor of “Bubba Teeth” who, to date, has earned over $40 million dollars. I go to my office, close the door, and quietly weep into my iBeer.