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What Are Your Dreams Waiting For?

Guest post by: Michael Hume

Article Overview: Thank God for hard-charging, high-flying cadets like my niece. We need her out there, soaring into the wild blue yonder... and we also need entrepreneurs in every family, with their feet firmly planted on the ground and their dreams free to fly through the heavens. When the predicted crash has come and gone, the entrepreneurs in every family will be the ones who make our nation soar again....

What Are Your Dreams Waiting For?

Build Your Entrepreneurial Muscles Now Today is a special day for me. I get to watch my niece graduate from high school, and begin her month off before reporting to the U.S. Air Force Academy. Her mother was one of the first young women to make it through the Academy, and now my niece can continue an awesome family tradition. I'm very proud of her!

As a society, there's no doubt that we need people like my awesome niece. She will be a success at anything she chooses to do, and the fact that she's chosen to start her adult life in service to her country (especially when she had many easier options available to her) is inspiring.

But these days, with so much wreckage cluttering the global politico-economic scene, every family needs some legitimate free-market entrepreneurial activity, too. Experts say we're in for much worse times before things get better, and the recovery will eventually be led not by the government, but by entrepreneurs.

In conversation with my clients, I'm learning that there are far too many people who've put their dreams on hold, waiting for "things to get better." In some cases, they just have a vague notion that the economy is "bad," and that it's not a good time to start a venture. In other cases, their expectations are more specific, around such things as a political turn-around in the U.S. One person told me he won't start his business until and unless "we get a president who is not a socialist."

I get that sentiment, but the harsh truth is that these people will never find the time right to launch their business. Sure, the government in the U.S. is pushing far too hard for collectivism these days, and the world economy is suffering as a result. Many think that "wealth" is a zero-sum game, that there's a finite amount of money out there, and that anyone who makes a profit is taking money out of the pocket of another. They are waiting for the government to do what it does (redistribute wealth) instead of taking the initiative to enter the market and let it do what it does (create and build wealth).

Government-reliant "victims" believe that when the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. But the American free market has proven time-and-time-again that when the rich get richer, the poor get richer too! And that's the magic that free-market entrepreneurs understand, and that government authoritarians will never get.

Every American institution that shapes public opinion will continue preaching the victimhood gospel... but you have to resist it. Don't wait for the government to redistribute someone else's wealth to you. The longer you wait, the more you lose that fire in your belly that'll ultimately make your business a success. You need to get out there and create some wealth, and build your entrepreneurial muscles. And the time to get a serious start is now.

Thank God for hard-charging, high-flying cadets like my niece. We need her out there, soaring into the wild blue yonder... and we also need entrepreneurs in every family, with their feet firmly planted on the ground and their dreams free to fly through the heavens. When the predicted crash has come and gone, the entrepreneurs in every family will be the ones who make our nation soar again.

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