Keep Your Ideas to Yourself until They are Fully Developed

The Medusa Effect

You have this incredible idea! You’re in it!!! It’s flowing. It makes perfect sense. You can see it gaining shape. You’re so excited about it that you want to share it with the world! As soon as you see your best friend you just say it out loud only to have your best friend totally smashing the idea in one sentence. Is this scenario familiar? Did it ever happened to you?

Of course, the person may be a member of your family or a co-worker or someone else close to you, not necessarily your best friend. But who has never felt like there was a good vibration being picked up and, suddenly, it was completely crashed by sharing it with the world?

Why exactly is it important to keep your ideas to yourself?

Keeping your ideas to yourself until they are fully developed is something that Abraham Hicks advocates and supposedly Jerry Hicks wrote an article under this exact premise. To begin with: what other people think about you (or your ideas) is none of your business. When you say it out loud and you start debating it with the world, you often spend more time convincing others than feeling the vibration that has occurred to you in the form of an idea.

It is also common that others — in their love and care for you — will call upon you…