Dreamchasers and Dreammakers

We all have dreams of what we would like to be or to have in the future. Some people set out to find their dream that someone else has created for them. They are Dreamchasers. But others set out to make their dream come true themselves. These are the Dreammakers.

Dreamchasers depend on other people to make their dreams come true. This usually ends in disappointment. Often, they spend years chasing their dream and never can catch it.

Dreammakers understand that they can not depend on anyone else to make their dream come true. They have to do it themselves. It is not the easy road to take, but it is the most likely road to success.

Thomas Alva Edison did not create the light bulb. That had already been done, but the older bulbs worked only for a very short time and were not practical for regular use. Edison's dream was to create a light bulb that would last for hundreds of hours. The filament (the part that glows in the light bulb) was the most difficult element. He wanted something natural and cheap, so he looked to the plant world for possibilities. "Before I got through," he recalled, "I tested no fewer than 6,000 vegetable growths, and ransacked the world for the most suitable filament material." Can you imagine six thousand failures before success? "The electric light has caused me the greatest amount of study and has required the most elaborate experiments," Edison wrote. "I was never myself discouraged, or inclined to be hopeless of success. I cannot say the same for all my associates."

Thomas Edison succeeded at this and many other brilliant inventions. Each one began as a dream. Each one took years of hard work to accomplish. They called him a genius and they were right, but as he put it, "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

If you have a dream, and I hope you do, than don't chase it, make it happen. It may take a long time, a lot of hard work, and many failures, but when you are finished, it is your dream. You made it come true and you own it.