The early adopters are the ones to ask.

We need the risk takers; they go first and try the new things.

• More accessible, because more people follow and use it.
• Less expensive depending on the ability for mass manufacturing and supply-chain efficiencies.
• Something that we needed to do, but then, a pull back with adjustment to a new normal.
• Costs more if they make it super appealing and there is increased demand.

The internet, or world wide web was limited to total computer nerds and university comp sci folks who could use the code to start to talk to their peers. (In my case, it was my uncle who connected me to a few of his friends, along with a small segment of my own.)

Electric vehicles started to out with a toe-dip driving the hybrid. No need to worry about running out of gas any more than you would with a regular gasoline car. The distance for your commute or vacation wasn’t an issue and you didn’t need to find a charging station. The dream car back in the day – for some of us – in addition to solar panels and getting rid of energy guzzling cable boxes! (We appreciated the advancement and “saving the planet” at the same time.)

Work from home. (Yea – I have been doing that from the turn of the century, now doesn’t that sound impossible to believe?) Even though now we have redefined it. Remote – or hybrid – which is a whole different meaning than the car.

Peer to peer payment methods? Crypto-currency? Artificial Intelligence? More things are coming fast and furious; the future of innovation is here. It should take less and less for each new concept to hit main stream, every day use by the large majority of people.

Be fair to yourself. Take a look back at what you have done. Be proud of those early moves you made. The risk. The thrill. The challenge of something totally new that only you appeared to be doing until you dragged a few people along with you so you could talk about it.

Choose to be one of the early adopters. You will just have to decide, if it is everything new, or only a few selected things that you have utmost interest in trying first. Don’t take the wait and see approach for too long. It seriously doesn’t take much to feel like you are being left behind.

~ Dawn aka Hat Girl