Do you have a dream? Most of us do, we aspire to achieve something special with our life. So many of us wish we were rich or famous, but all too often we’re not willing to make the necessary sacrifices or to do what it really takes to succeed. As children we all have dreams, but somewhere along the way we give up on them. Someone tells us, we need to be “realistic” or “that’s not going to happen”. We end up doing the responsible thing and settling for a paycheck, a budget and a predictable future. That’s how most of us live our lives. That’s how most of our dreams die.

If you’re really lucky something happens to throw you off track, something nearly tragic and now you have an opportunity to re-examine your life. You might even rediscover the passion that was at the heart of a childhood dream. I know I did. If you had asked me when I was growing up “What do you want to do with your life?”, I would have said “I want to be an inventor and invent a simple little gadget that everyone is going to buy”. That was my dream for as far back as I can remember; the dream I buried in the back of mind and tried to forget about, because it wasn’t “realistic” it wasn’t “really going to happen”.

  
I was lucky. Approaching the age of fifty, I lost my job, not just once, but twice! I had never lost a job before in my life and to lose two jobs in 18 months wasn’t just a shock it was a real wake up call. It forced me to take a long hard look at what I was doing and where I wanted to go. A few years earlier I had come up with an idea for a simple little invention, a product that I had already prototyped and knew worked very well. This was my chance and this time I wasn’t going to give up on my dream.

This is my story, my journey and my dream. The outcome is still unknown and success is far from certain. This blog is a way to share my journey, a real inventor’s journey, as it happens and before the outcome is known. Will my invention make it to market? Will people buy my product? Will I be able to license it? Do dreams really come true? Follow along and find out as I do, in real time.