Stop Hitting Red Lights: Finding Green

Without disrespect to other professors, the thing I love most about the Free Agent Academy is the idea filter. Here’s a real copy, with options A, B, and C changed.

Jonathan Pool leads the Idea group within FAA and is downright amazing. Here’s how it works.

Before our students get to Jonathan to work on their idea, they’re also working with Gary on their calling and Deb on their personality style. Jonathan builds on that to help each student personally create their own filter. Students narrow their ideas down to their top three (this is from a list of 40-50 that Deb helps them create) and run them through this filter.

I’m amazed that most people will never, ever, do this in their life. They work somewhere because the pay is good, because they like the city, it’s close to family, or because the people are ok.

They never love their work however because they never took the time to figure out if it was a good fit for them. While we’re focused on self-employment at the Free Agent Academy, I’ve sent several people through these first three classes so they can figure out a better traditional career path. It work exactly the same.

The key in creating your own filter is knowing yourself to set it up correctly in the first place, then sending the right ideas through it. If you have any reds, your idea isn’t going to fit. There’s a poor chance you could even change things to make it work better.

If it’s yellow, you might be able to change some things around to fit you better. Green is best and we’re ideally looking for that color in every section.

We’ve never had anyone not find an idea that was all green. Your idea is out there too, just waiting for you. It’s probably right under your nose in fact. Are you paying attention?

Have you run your ideas through a filter like this? What’s stopping you? Join the Free Agent Academy so we can help.