When Someone Steals Your Idea

What do you do when someone else ‘steals’ your idea?

• • Do you rant and rave?
  • Do you think of all the woulda, coulda, shoulda things? (I should have, if only we’d, etc…)
  • Do you think it’s unfair?
  • Do you worry that it will hurt your business?

In the past we might have fretted about the article thinking, ‘oh shoot, someone stole our thunder’, or ‘oh my, we should have done more with that episode’ or ‘why didn’t we ____ (fill in the blank) ‘ or any other variation on the theme. 

🙌 Instead, we celebrated.

Here’s why.

There are several things that are now foundations for how we see the world, and business.

• It’s a friendly universe. That means that this article, written for a publication with massive influence and an enormous following showed up today to serve us in some way.
• Everything we need shows up before we need it. Ergo, we did not ‘miss’ anything. We are right where we need to be, our ‘job’ is to stay present and pay attention to the clues life is leaving us (like this article).
• Our mission is to empower leaders from the inside out – in every walk of life. As such, when we see a publication like Fast Company publishing an article that we ‘could have written’ – that means that the world of business, and leadership, is changing. That excites us and gives us hope.

The Result

Whenever you come from a place of lack and fear, you shrink back, close down – as do your potential and opportunities. When you come from a place of true celebration you stay big and open, as do – you guessed it – your potential and your opportunities.

We know that we’ve already impacted 100’s of leaders with our own episode on the subject. Fast Company will reach so many more. That’s something to celebrate. The world needs this – more leaders waking up. 

On a more direct note, one of our Soulful Leader podcasts from 2023 just became relevant again (Ep 90). Our new listeners have never heard it, didn’t know it existed. They will likely listen to it, and share it with a friend. We’ll gain listeners. All because of work someone else did. We should send a thank you note!

Finally, it’s given us a great opportunity to connect more directly with you, our own followers. You get to know more about us, and we get to know more about you. More of you are commenting and responding with each blog post, newsletter and podcast – and we love it.

Your Turn

So the next time someone else writes the article, records the short, or publishes the podcast you coulda, woulda, shoulda done, look at it with fresh eyes.

Is your belief empowering you? Or hindering you? What if what was published was actually be HELPING you and your business? 

Deeper into Groundhog Day

As an added bonus – we highly recommend that you watch (or rewatch) Groundhog Day – with awareness. It’s a fun movie and walks through the process of getting unstuck in a playful way. If you are interested, contact us and we’ll send you the list of questions we created to consider within the context of the movie.

Whichever you choose (watch it on your own, watch it with friends, or not watching it at all) we’d love to hear your thoughts. Were you able to shift your mindset on something in your business? Do you have a different perspective on Groundhog Day now?

Share with us what you noticed, learned, saw differently, etc. 🙌