The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur

October 28Extraordinary Dreamers

If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame, which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities.

Nathaniel Hawthorne—Fanshawe (1828)

Entrepreneurs are extraordinary dreamers.

And maybe you've heard that's a bad thing.

Turns out, everything that was ever created was imagined before it was real.

We must first dream to create things that don't exist today. We must dream to give meaning to our passion well before it becomes our reality. We must dream because reality tells us we have boundaries while our dreams are limitless.

Ultimately, we must dream to create a thousand realities.

Now, before you define your big-fat-dream-in-the-sky, answer this question: who would you have to become in order to turn this dream into a reality? Dismiss that part, and the train won't leave the station.

Challenge Question

1. Who would you have to become in order to turn your dreams into reality?