What's the big idea?
Big ideas do not belong to big cities. They belong to whoever says one out loud.
Founding places open now. One per county.
Why we're doing it
Valentia never made the world feel small. The stories around it made it enormous.
A time when a phone call meant my father bringing my mother to the village box. Once a week.
Walking with my father. Ships, flights, history, people. Every walk made the world bigger.
Cyrus Field ran a cable out of this island and joined two continents. One idea, held long enough to work.
From down the road. His ideas carried a lot further than the place he came from.
I grew up in a small place. I never believed I had to think small.
How to think big
Declan is a high performance mindset coach. His clients are chief executives, Olympians and people carrying ambitions much bigger than their circumstances.
He is also a certified consultant in Bob Proctor's work and teaches Thinking Into Results. The material, taught properly.
More on Declan's work at declanodonoghue.com
Proctor's whole life came down to one idea. The size of your result is set before you start. He described three kinds of goal.
You raise the ceiling first. On purpose. In a room of people doing the same.
Bring my idea to life
It is hard to put into words the work that Declan does.
He has completely transformed the way I think and helped me challenge unhelpful thoughts and the stories we tell ourselves. He has helped me become clear on the goals I want to achieve, remove limiting beliefs, make decisions and take action in my life. Beyond grateful to have gotten the opportunity to work with Declan.
What happens in the room
Nobody needs another event they feel good at and forget by Tuesday.
The three highest-value ideas or opportunities the room gave you.
Three specific actions. Each one observable. Each one finishable.
Done inside three days, then reported back. That is where accountability lives.
The 32 county roadshow
Thirty-two events. One in every county in Ireland.
We are not doing a single one of them to a half-empty room.
Each stop needs about fifty entrepreneurs. People who build things, and who will say something honest when asked.
If your county is on this map, we want you in that room.
Route shown is indicative. Dates and venues are being confirmed now.
Great Irish ideas
None of them were in the right place. They had an idea and would not let it go.
Co. Kerry
The first lasting Atlantic telegraph cable came ashore at Valentia in 1866. Two continents went from weeks apart to minutes apart.
Co. Clare
From Liscannor. Designed the first submarine ever commissioned by the United States Navy.
Co. Waterford
From Dungarvan. Split the atom with John Cockcroft and took a Nobel Prize in Physics for it.
Co. Down
The three point linkage. It changed how tractors work everywhere on earth, and it still does.
Co. Louth
From Darver. Invented the induction coil, the ancestor of the ignition coil in every petrol engine since.
Co. Donegal
From Feymore. One of the six original programmers of ENIAC, and one of the first people anywhere to write software.
Co. Limerick
Two brothers from Limerick built Stripe, which now moves money for an enormous share of the internet.
Your county
The one you have not said out loud yet.
I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.
Daniel O'Connell
Two ways in
One is for being here from the very beginning. The other is for the room every week.
€1,200 once
Thirty-two people put their name to this first. Your county is the one you put on the map.
€97 per month
The room, every week, with people who are actually building something.
You already know what it is. You have just never had the right room to say it in.