Server Down!

Yesterday, was a Tuesday. I spent most of my Monday, working on My Executive Summary, for a local "Accelarator", my server "crashed". Just as I was about to transfer it to my drive, push button...nothing...another setback.

Now I have plenty setbacks, I mean I have been working on this dream since 1992. Eversince I met Jim Berlin. Nice guy. Owner of Berlin Tire Distributors. Met him at the time, through my ex-wife, who used to work for him. Christmas Parties, he hosted at his home. Can you imagine, entertaining your employees at your home, at Christmas?

So I got up enough nerve, and thought I articulated my words( I mean I am out of his league for discussions with my background) to ask, "How did you do it?" How did you put together your dream? He told me, and as he spoke, I thought to myself, is he really telling me "HIS"-story? Now at this point of my life, this is way before I got my hands on, "Think & Grow Rich" and all the other classics to nuture my mental development.

In the end he told me, "When you get an idea, or business concept, come see me..." Wow, I thought.

Who knew for the next two decades I would come up with six business ideas/inventions, but now, I have no intentions on bothering Mr. Berlin. I chose not to bother Mr. Berlin, when I talked with an owner of a company, I was employed at.

As we sat in his office, my first business meeting. I presented one of my concepts with a Business Plan, that I toiled over, in his face, and he never even looked at it,once! He sat there and pigeon-holed my idea, with a "Dog-Eat-Dog-Approach" to business. "It is better for the industry to have losers..." My concept was designed to benefit everyone in the industry but, I understood. Packed that away, well actually, I worked on that for another two years, till I packed it away.

I continued to encounter struggles from those who promised to help, guide, or mentor but left me still pinning, digging, and picking at the door for success. Yeah, there are plenty of those encounters, but I am not mad, not even dissap[ointed.

You may ask, then why know? I may ask, why not now? I am not getting older, plus I have a new support group. Those who have assisted me in launching one of those business concepts and I once, again, feel the time is now. All I need, is financial backing, someone to see, what I see. See the possibilities. These equipment issues will be the thing of the past.

Some may wonder, why do I keep pushing? Holding on? Dreaming? Well, one day, I hope to be able to host/attend a party and influence or encourage maybe... that one dreamer, inventor, or just that one who believes he/she can make a difference.

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