Ideas come to us at all times of day, sometimes when we least expect it. Many professional entrepreneurs are trained to spot new business opportunities and, to them, generating business ideas is run-of the-mill work. But average people also think up new business ideas, on the whole probably millions of times daily, all around the world.

You've probably had times where you had been sitting around with your buddies where a conversation topic triggered someone to say something like, "Hey, that would make for a good business idea." Everyone would nod in agreement, maybe discuss it for a few minutes, and that would be the end of it. Nobody ever takes it upon themselves to actually take the business idea to a new level. The idea never comes to fruition; it remains just that, an idea.

You, yourself, have probably dreamt up numerous ideas. But what do you do when you come up with a hot new business idea? If youre like most people, you do nothing. Doing nothing is the easiest thing to do. You cannot fail if you do nothing. But you cannot succeed either.

You probably drive to work every day. You work 9-5. You probably don't like it much either. But have you ever stopped to think about how the company you work for started? It probably started with someone thinking up a hot new business idea, just like you have many times before. The difference is that that person actually did something about it. He recognized a business opportunity and made it happen. And, because of that, you are employed.

Entrepreneurship is about taking risks. Not many people have succeeded without taking a risk at some point in their business venture. Perhaps if you were not so afraid of failure, you would have started a successful business and would have had employees rather than being an employee yourself.