Ask any kid ; “what would you like to be when you grow up?”, and you’ll get a verity of different answers.

There are always the standard answers like, I would like to be a fire fighter, detective, doctor, or perhaps even president. My granddaughter wants to be a model when she grows up, and I believe she’ll do it. She adores the camera and is an exceedingly beautiful girl.

Naturally, I am a little biased in my judgment, but when you look into their eyes, you see this wonder and excitement when they talk about living their dreams. Their eyes are wide as saucers and they talk about them as if there isn’t any question in their mind, they’re going to occur.

What happens to all those dreams? What’s happened to your dream? What’s happened to my dream? Are you living your dreams? Do you have a dream? I believe as we age, our dreams may change. Circumstances and maturity sets in and change or change how we look at life and our circumstances. The wide eyed kid has matured into an adult and his dreams have also matured with him.

I always wanted to be a baseball player. I loved sports and played hockey also, but life’s circumstances modified all that and living my dream as a pro athlete disappeared. As I chatted to people who have known me awhile and I disclosed to them what my youth dream always was, they sort of look at me a little funny, and say…really? They have that, “I do not believe you”, look on their face. Ever had that occur to you? They kinda giggle at your dreams.

If you’re a dreamer, and entrepreneurs are dreamers or visionaries, you’ll have more than one dream and you’ll have more than one occasion where you receive the looks and laughter at your dreams and visions.

There are tons of dreamers, visionaries, entrepreneurs that are out there, but I want to bring  a couple to your attention.

1.Leonardo da Vinci

This guy was born on April 15, 1452. He used to be a true dreamer. His drawings included detailed drawings of flight machines. Are you able to imagine him attempting to speak with his buddies about assembling a gizmo that would take somebody into the air? Talk about getting some looks and laughs, and think he may have gotten his share.

2. Thomas Edison

Besides giving us light through the incandescent bulb, Thomas Edison also gave us the phonograph and amassed 1093 U.S patents. He’s credited with many inventions that made a contribution to mass communications and, particularly telecommunication. This fellow was always thinking and dreaming of what could  be.

3. Charles Babbage

Where would we be without PCs today? I remember when I was in school, PCs were in their youth, and the dream that sometime a machine would have such capabilities as the PC does today was a particularly silly concept. Well, thanks to Charles Babbage, the dream is alive today. He was a British mathematician, thinker, inventor, and mechanical engineer who originated the idea of a programmable PC. Babbage is credited with inventing the 1st mechanical PC that at last led on to more complicated designs.

Each one of those dreamers and visionaries had disasters, bumps in the road, and people in the way screaming their sarcasm and negative slurs. That should only make you the more driven to win. Success has to go through some failed doors first. Failure isn’t final. Failure is merely a tool that leads to success and the accomplishment of your dream.

What are your dreams? Wish to open and run a successful business? Wish to open a college for inner city youngsters? What’s the vision you have? I’m sure you can see it as if it is alive and taking place. If this is you, I want to tell you to never, ever stop dreaming, and do not listen to the naysayers. Those people who say, “that will never happen,” “you can’t do that”. You cannot stop them from saying that at you, but don’t listen to them.

You are different. Only 3% of the planet’s population are dreamers and visionaries. The other 97% live in the box. Do not let those 97% scream their negative talk at you. Do not let them knock you off the track you are traveling. Stay the course, hold the line, and always continue moving forward toward your goals. Never stop living your dreams.

Zig Zigular said, “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you have to plan to win, gear up to win, and expect to win.