Everyone needs someone
to tell
their secrets to.
If you’re that someone,
you are in a powerful position.
You can’t
tell anyone else
those secrets
If you do that,
no one will ever tell you
their secrets again.
But the secrets
can often benefit you.
You have insider information
no one else has.
Better than that,
however,
you have that person’s trust.
Be a secret holder.
When I was writing a different spin
on a popular niche,
I told a bunch of other writers
what I was doing.
They all thought
I was throwing words and time away.
They didn’t think
it would work
AT ALL.
Not one of them stole
my idea.
Once I was successful
with this spin,
hundreds of writers
rushed to write books
using it.
As Seth Godin
shares
“When big ideas show up,
almost no one sees
what’s possible.
All they notice is that
change is risky
and
new stuff might not work.
Don’t worry so much
about someone stealing your ideas.”
I still wouldn’t recommend sharing ideas
if it will hurt you
if they are copied.
Why take that risk?
But having my unproven ideas stolen
isn’t something
that keeps me up
at night.
Focus on implementing
those ideas.