We all get excited by some fine ideas from time to time, only to find that a day, a week, a month later the idea seems a bit stale. However, you can still make these stale ideas work for you effectively by refining them, and using the already spend input for something productive.
I believe that when you have a good idea you should sleep on it, but if you still find it great the next day, go for it. Sure, it might turn stale after a week, but if you don’t give it a go, you will miss out on a potentially great idea which could make a lot of money for you, you never know.
After a month you might find you don’t think the idea is great anymore, you might find better ideas, who knows, but don’t think your efforts have been in vain! You can turn a bad idea into a great one with some thought, some added ideas and a hint of work.
You could, for example, integrate it with a different project. You might have started a blog in a specific genre and failed with it, just take those posts and integrate them into another blog. Perhaps they won’t bring you more money, but they will add to your content.
At the very least you are sure to have learned a great deal from your failed idea, be sure to build upon these failures. I had a lot of these when I was organizing my pictures. I started in one particular way, spend about 4 hours on them, only to find that the method I developed was utterly useless. However, the way I tagged was quite cool so I kept that, and built on that to get a different system. That system also failed, and in the end I scratched the tagging, but I was able to find a file structure/category combination which worked very well and used that.
Overall, all your ideas have potential in them. If not the potential for success, then the potential to take other ideas to the next level. Be sure to refine everything you do, take the best of each project, idea and inject these into other existing projects. Take a look at why some of your ideas are bad and try to identify these aspects in other areas of your life, perhaps extracting them if necessary.
