The Red Car Phenomenon

The Red Car Phenomenon
or Baader-Meinhof phenomenon
roughly states
that once you start to look for something,
you tend to see it everywhere.

You might not notice red cars,
for example,
before you started looking
for them
but now that you ARE looking
for red cars,
you see them everywhere.

You might think
there are more red cars
than there actually are.

The red car phenomenon
greatly benefits business builders.

Once we start looking
for opportunities,
we see them everywhere.

Look for opportunities.

Producing What You Want To Produce

A common piece of advice
that is given to many writers
and to many other business builders
is
Write/produce what you want
to write/produce.

That advice is incomplete
because if we wrote/produced
what we wanted to write/produce,
we likely wouldn’t sell
that story/object/service.

Our readers/customers
aren’t usually ready for
our latest big idea.

They are often ready
for ONE of our big ideas, however.
Merely not the most recent one.

The complete piece of advice
is
Write/produce what you want
to write/produce
but ensure other people want it also.

Business builders usually have
quite a few products/services
they’re interested in offering.

I, for example,
have a list of over 100 story ideas
I would like to write
and ideas get added or drop off
that list all the time.

I pick story ideas (product ideas)
off that list
I think readers (customers) are interested
in buying.

I’m happy.
Readers (customers) are happy.
My business’ bank account is happy.

Produce what you want
to produce
but ensure other people
want that product/service also.

And keep a list
of product/service ideas
you’re interested
in exploring.