Your million dollar idea is worth s#it.

An idea by itself doesn’t mean squat. These days, you sneeze and ten new “million-dollar ideas” show up on LinkedIn posts or in your late-night high school WhatsApp group. Coming up with an idea is the easy part—it’s like having Wi-Fi: everyone’s got it, and half the time it doesn’t even connect properly. What really matters is not the spark, but what you do with it. If you can’t take that shiny brainwave and actually wrestle it into reality, then honestly, it’s just orgasmic mental fireworks—nice to look at, but gone in two seconds.

Think about it. Pitching an idea is like bragging you’ll hit the gym from Monday. Sounds great, people nod, maybe even clap—but if you don’t show up, sweat it out, and keep at it, then no one’s impressed. Same with ideas. You pitch something amazing at work, everyone’s hyped, but six months later if it’s still stuck in “draft mode,” your credibility tanks. The legends we admire—whether it’s Steve Jobs launching the iPhone or Elon Musk actually sending rockets into space—didn’t stop at “yo, what if we…?” They pushed, stumbled, iterated, and got things out the door.

So here’s the real test: don’t just count how many ideas you spit out, count how many worked. Validate your success ratio. If out of ten ideas you’ve pushed, even three made some noise in the real world, that’s gold. The rest? Learning material, funny stories, maybe even memes. But unless you follow through, execute, and babysit the idea till it grows into something useful, you’re just another person with “potential.” And potential, my friend, doesn’t pay the bills. Execution does.

So the next time when someone talks about their creativity, yell "show me the money"