 Do you ever worry that someone might take your idea and run with it, copy it, use it as their own, and not give you credit? Well I hope that this short video will give you some calmness and peace about that and could give you a more abundant mindset about ideas. So I have been creating content consistently putting stuff out there since 2014 2015 2014 actually and up to now I have made over a thousand videos and blog posts and it's all out there so there's lots and lots of ideas and I'm sure somewhere someone has copied my idea saw it from me copied it use it as their own and not given me credit. I think I've actually seen it like two or three times over the years and I noticed when that happened it's usually someone copy pasting something of mine on Facebook and not quoting me and not putting my name and I saw it happen I'm like whatever you know and there's there's didn't go there's didn't go as far as mine did you know mine obviously went viral enough where they saw they copied it so number one if if it's any comfort for my own experience just know that even if someone copies and pastes your stuff it's not going to do as well as yours did to go so far as to get to them so that they could do they could also copy you but number two I believe I mean I've seen it within myself that when I give energy to protecting my ideas or being fearful that someone might not give me credit for it that's energy taken away from creating from sharing from dreaming and from just doing the work of publishing and so long ago I let go of of that fear in fact in 2014 I decided to uncopy when I started becoming active in sharing content I decided to uncopy right all my content yes so what does that mean it just means that you can feel free to take anything you see from me any idea and even go so far as copy and paste my entire books I have now four books you can copy and paste the any of my books and you can publish them as your own with you as the author and I don't care I don't have the time nor the energy to hunt you down or anybody down I don't have the money or the time to sue anybody I don't care it's just it's too much work and I find I found that once I made the decision of uncopywriting everything I just relaxed and just it became so I became much more abundant minded and not surprisingly my audience has continued growing over the years because I've continued creating very actively now you might say well isn't there something we can now there is one concern I just have to say one concern that I do have is when someone sees my stuff and says hey George you took that idea from me because look I published this idea earlier than you did so you must have seen mine and taken it from me because it looks so similar that's that is a real concern that I have I don't want to be accused of having stolen someone else's ideas so the way I prevent that from happening is this is why I have such an urgency and I encourage you to have an urgency of sharing ideas as quickly as possible and there are two simple ways of doing that one way is to make youtube videos if you have a new idea go ahead put it on into it onto youtube you know public as a public youtube video you can even make it unlisted and even if it's unlisted um it'll still have the times the date stamp so that you know there's there's proof that the idea was out there on a certain date so that makes me calm this I got shared my ideas as quickly as I can and put on youtube if you don't want to make videos you can put your ideas and writing on on twitter because twitter also has time stamps and even if it's a long article you can simply put it into a series of tweets a twitter thread it's called and those are all time stamped and so this is why if you find me on twitter you'll see that that's what I do I use twitter as a public journaling tool to get my ideas out there as quick as I can and so um you know again I don't care if anyone takes my ideas all I do care if someone claims that I stole their idea thankfully I it hasn't happened that so I'm glad to say that hasn't happened either in the past eight years since I've been actively putting ideas out there but it you know just in case and you know just in case I do put it on twitter and youtube and also it like I said encourages me to you know share create and share content as quickly as I can so if my story is any encouragement to you I hope that this helps you to become more abundant minded with your ideas and I just I just wish that all of us could uncopy right all our content I know it's a it's a strong move to make that I what I've did what I've done but I've only had tons of peace in doing it and tons of creativity after doing it so I just wish that everyone could uncopy right all the content so none of us have to worry about oh did I steal someone oh did I forget to give credit I always try to give credit when I remember that I took someone's idea of course I do I try to and this uncopy right idea by the way came from I got it from Leo Babalta of Zen habits if you google Zen habits Leo that you'll find his website and and he was he's been uncopy writing his content since 2008 since 2008 he was uncopy right all his content and he's done very very well anyway so that's where I got the idea but yeah I you know I just wish we could be all much more liberated about about ideas because truly no idea is original is it really you think you came up with some idea it's almost certain that you were subconscious at least subconsciously influenced by a number of other people and you didn't even realize that you were influenced by it and that's how your your ideas came to be so I think all of us share I am even the very vocabulary we use that came from our teachers right and that came from their teachers and originally you know whoever started using certain words so anyway I hope this is helpful I hope this gives you some more urgency of creating content putting stuff out there and thank you for joining me and always welcome your questions and comments so be well and I will see you in the next video thanks for joining me