What was your dream when you started out in business or life?? Did it excite you enough to keep you going against the odds? And what keeps you going now? Is it time for a new dream?

I am asked often how I keep going knowing that the Government wants to extract their pound of flesh - it seems like a million pounds at that. My answer was always that I thought it was an unreasonable proposition that I had been singled out and that the penalty was far in excess of the perceived offence. But I haven't been fired up to achieve the results I know I can achieve because I was striving to achieve a dream.

Recently I read Donald Trump's new book "Think Big and Kick Ass in Business and Life" where he says;

"If you are going to think, it takes no more effort to think BIG. If you are going to dream, it takes no more effort to dream BIG!"

So I have been resetting my dreams to be big enough to make me really strive to achieve them.

Matthew, my son, is into golf in a big way. And he is striving to reduce his handicap. Just this week he should me a passage from Dr Bob Rotella's book "Golf Is Not A Game of Perfect." The chapter was about the big dreams of successful golfers. The particular passage which caught Matthew's attention was about Byron Nelson.

"After a presentation at Las Colinas Country Club in Dallas Texas there was a question and answer session and Byron Nelson raised his hand.

People have often asked me where my mind was the year I won eleven tournaments in a row," he said. "I've never had a god answer, until now, when I listened to what you (Rob) and Tom were saying about going after your dreams.

When I was a young player, my dream was to own a ranch. Gold was the only way I was going to get that ranch. And every tournament I played in, I was going after a piece of it. First I had to buy some property. Then I had to fence it. Then I had to build a house for it. Then furnish the house. Then I had to build barns and corrals. Then animals. Then I had to hire someone to look after it while I was touring. Then I had to put enough money aside to take of it forever.

That was what I won tournaments for. It's amazing, but once I got the ranch all paid for, I pretty much stopped playi9ng. I was all but done as a competitive player."

I checked out the history of Byron Nelson. Although he won many tournaments in the course of his relatively brief career, he is mostly remembered today for having won 11 consecutive tournaments and 18 total tournaments in 1945.

He retired officially at the age of 34 to be a rancher.

So, inspired by Donald Trump, I have set some pretty amazing dreams in place to achieve between now and 2013... part of the plan is to present seminars in 100 cities around the world in the next 4 years. I hope you share with me the ride as I set out to achieve a life goal worthy of the dreaming.

The next step is to have our seminars presented in the Middle East and India this year, building on our previous success in the UK (2003) and New Zealand (2006). Plus to help 100 people achieve continuing residual income using our BlogQuest program.

By sharing this with my Maverick Spirit readers I hope to inspire and be inspired by you. Let's all enjoy the journey.