Chasing dreams that will never be realized..

Looking into my personality, one of the most challenging aspects of being what I am now is dealing with all people’s scepticism. This can be especially painful if this scepticism comes from anyone surrounding. Could be work colleagues, family, friends and even closest friends. In general with true innovation chances most of people I met will think I am inspirational. The other part will think I am delusional. Yet that self-belief is critical to my success. If I don't believe then who will? If not now than when? Self-doubt is the ultimate sin I can commit as it robs not only myself of potential success but others of my potential impact.

I have to accept however that I am an uncommon breed of person. People will recognize that in me and they can never hope to understand what I’m trying to do. They will cry: "Are You Crazy?!", "That will never work!" and my personal favorite that I hear all the time from closed people "Why don't you get things for REAL?". I realized most of the people has very narrow expectations of what success means and the path we "should" follow that goes something like this:

·         Your born and are raised by 2 loving and caring parents

·         You do well in School

·         You go to University or College and get a degree.

·         You work in a job or series of jobs for long accrue a large amounts of material wealth and build up a pension pot.

·         You buy lots of stuff and accumulate a nice house, a car if your drive, go on holiday at least once a year, and this is supposed to make you very happy indeed.

·         Your retire, maintain your mental and physical faculties as long as possible before your dumped in a nursing home.

·         You die and leave a nice large inheritance for your surviving relatives.

Now you reader may disagree with me but I think that is a very limited life indeed because it involves following a preset template that has been laid out for us. There is a lot of pressure that wants you the round peg to fit neatly into that square hole throughout that journey, from parents, family, your bank balance, marketers, homes and the government with a nice tax grab from my estate.

Innovation isn't easy. It takes sacrifice and involves me walking a road for a number of years that most people will never take in order to live this life like most people never will. I will make mistakes, and this is for sure. People will doubt me. Think I am crazy, say I spend my days chasing dreams that will never be realized. I am of the view however that as long as my balance vision with pragmatic evidence in my own decision making then there is no reason not to pursue my dreams. For me this process ultimately led to wind up my position. Time is the scarcest resource when it enters the past, when it’s gone, I have no way of getting it back. I will not waste my time pursuing dead dreams.

So what of the doubters? I have a difficult choice. Perhaps one of the most difficult I will face in my life. If the people who I care about vehemently won't support my pursuit of my dreams then I can either cut those people out of my life or do as they ask. People will label that I am a cold hearted bastard to boot.

Haters gonna hate. But dreamers gonna dream. Go for it, life holds a certain special magic for those to dare to dream and will those dreams into existence. You should never be afraid to do something today that you’re own and others tomorrow will thank you for.

I dare you!