I just got back from a superb business seminar. The main speaker was a successful millionaire entrepreneur from Canada who talked about a lot of useful and interesting stuff. One primary thing that truly stuck with me was what he called “the power of the dream”. I could really relate to it.
The dream is everything. It’s all you’ve got when you get started new, fresh and inexperienced. That dream better be mighty and powerful. You better be able to feel it deep down inside your gut and you better be able to clearly visualize it. Either the obstacles and barriers will win you, or you’ll win them but to do so you need to have a powerful dream. The dream will keep you “alive”.
A lot of people set out to achieve their dreams, most fail. Or to be more precise, as time passes by and the dream slowly dies, most settle for being mediocre. I never will.
I enjoy the struggle. It shapes you up. It transforms you and it keeps pushing you to the limit. Only when you’re pushed to the limit, you do realize what you’re made of.
I’ve tried 3 times and failed but those failures were the good kind, the kind that you learn from only to get up once again and start walking a stronger, wiser person. I’ve made progress and I’ll continue my journey.
Why? Because I’m a Drima.
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No disrespect intended, but I would disagree and say that the dream is unimportant, because a dream is often infused with fantasy, and sometimes dreams and fantasies can be quite foolish.
There are more foolish business dreams around than smart ones. We only hear about the smart ones, when it comes to business dreams.
What really matters is an idea. Ideas are subject to outside approbation, eventually, which is what makes them socially useful, whether they’re bad ideas or good ideas.
Of course Finnpundit. There’s no question that you need smart business dreams and not foolish ones. But even to make those smart business dreams happen, you need drive and motivation. That’s what I meant by the power of the dream, a dream that gives you drive and pushes you forward over the obstacles.
Let’s just take Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google. Sure they came up with one hell of an invention for the ranking system of their search engine but getting funding from venture capitalists didn’t happen the next day. It took a while. Even the algorithm for Google itself wasn’t just coded in a day. These 2 guys were driven because they had a vision of how they wanted to impact the internet with their invention.
Traf-O-Data was Bill Gates’ first company and it failed but Bill kept chasing his goal because he had a dream, he had drive, he had motivation.
Even if you’ve got a great, idea, it’s usually not just something that pops overnight in you head and then you enhance it further and apply it the next day. It takes time. Over time, you’ll face obstables. At least that happens in most cases.
A good analogy is people who go to gyms. Thousands of people in this city I live in go to the gym. Yet we don’t have many Arnold Swarcheneggers walking around. Why is that?
I think it’s all about how bad you want it at the end of the day. That’s my main point in this post.
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