We just came from a board meeting with Ferrari, after signing
a deal with Red Bull; we were aboutto decide who to partner with MTN or GLO!
We really got excited that everything about this new idea of ours was getting the attention of
various giant sponsors that could setup our new innovation for life, are we
getting lucky or GOD is having HIS yes stamp all over our
prayers? Well we had it going until it happened……………….
Kinsley thought it was a stupid idea all along, told
us never to bolt into such venture;Derrick was just enjoying the fact that we
were about something new and different, and I was just thinking of a way to
Mark Zukerberg Rueben and keep all the spoils of the new innovation to myself.
Besides Rueben thought of the concept as just a flimsy idea that just came out
of his mouth, as he talking about every Tom Dick and Harry idea that hops into
his mind and out, he said anyone was allowed to chase after the new initiative
about a four wheel race.
Well everybody got a one piece suit for the meeting
tailing along with Rueben as he sells his idea to every business tycoon that
had a few change to spear for sponsorship, we all forgot our differences about
the idea of starting a race that was about chairs, which will involve various
people who use chairs that usewheels in their offices. He said that all the
bored office workers will get into the race and make money and fame and have a
huge fan base! At every time we told each sponsor about the race and how we
were going to execute the whole program, Kingsley held himself from getting
into an outburst of laughter! That the competition is a joke!
A few minutes into our coffee break, the assistant
Naomi tells me that both Telecommunication firms revoked our sponsorship, and
Ferrari and Red Bull just sent a memo about pulling out!
It was a jaw dropping scenario for us all, as I told
the news to the boys, I argued that it was the name of the race that made our sponsors
back out, it shouldn’t have been “Chair Racing” I insisted they should have
gone with me on “Chair Wheel Drive”, and Kingsley just kept laughing and
Derrick got the virus from him and joined in too.
In confusion I picked up Derrick’s blackberry and
Googled if someone took our idea elsewhere, to my surprise our “so-called” “chair
race” was in existence over five years ago. No wonder the sponsors pulled out,
our motto was that “the race has never been done before, that it was the first
of its kind”, that was why everyone wanted to take a piece of our new idea.
Rueben kept
quite like a dog who has just been barked out and down by something much more
fierce than he was. Well you can imagine what Kinsley and Derrick were doing
laughing even harder and me I caught the virus too!
I thought of reinventing the whole thing and doing it
differently from the way it was done before! Rueben couldn’t just get over the
fact that what he assumed as brand new was stale gist!
Rueben couldn’t stop; he thought up another idea for
us to run with! Why don’t make the “biggest…. ever. (its an idea that’s in the
works! ) We can make money!
Rueben was about making an impact, doing something
different and brand new and that Guinness Book of Records will approve of it,
well I think I’m the “too nice guy” among us all, as soon as he starts talking
and everyone around us thought Rueben was at it again, something that would not
fly is what he talks about every now and then, I set up team and we started to
research on how to make the world biggest…….
And wow! It has
never been done before!
Thank GOD we did not spend a dime on this, venture of
ours “Chair racing” because it was only an imagination of Rueben’s mind and was
contagious, comical to Kingsley and amusing to Derrick and all this happened in
a class of Computer Software Program!
This is the jet age, whatever you’re thinking of right
now, this moment someone else is about the same initiative as you, so figure
out a way of how to get about your new idea, I remember laying a plan last year
to start a pet project where I do people’s shopping, laundry, and run errands for
them, next thing I turn on the T.V and a family was already executing my new
fresh out the kitchen idea!
If for any reason you find out that your new plan was
being executed by someone else, don’t back down from it, you should be happy
and pick up their plan on how they carried out their project (research) and
learn from their mistakes and progress and reinvent to make it remarkable!
Don’t feel good with a new scheme, and grin to yourself
as you drink yourcoffee that you got an intellectual property that could
generate millions someday, it may just be the headlines as you grab the papers!
Tick
Tock says the clock what you have to do, do quick!!
