Daydream Believing in Your Business

This country was built on ideas. Many of those ideas may have even started out with someone dreaming about changing their situation to something different or better.

Thomas Edison's schoolmaster, "angered by the lad's inattentive 'dreamy,' distracted behavior, frustrated by his tendency to drift off during recitations, to draw and doodle in his notebook instead of repeating rote lessons," cuffed and ridiculed him in front of his classmates. 'One day,' Edison recalled with bitterness many years later, 'I heard the teacher tell the visiting school inspector that I was addled and it would not be worthwhile keeping me in school any longer. I was so hurt by this last straw that I burst out crying and went home and told my mother.' His indignant mother 'brought him back to the school and angrily told the teacher that he didn't know what he was talking about, that I had more brains than he himself.'" Mrs. Edison pulled Thomas out of school and began home-schooling, determined that "no formalism would cramp his style, no fetters hobble the free rein, the full sweep of his imagination." ("Edison - Inventing the Century" by Neil Baldwin, 1995).
Sigmund Freud wrote extensively about the psychological importance of dreams, including those of daydreams.

And did you know that some of the most innovative companies in the world, like Google and 3M give their employees the time and space to daydream? Visualization, in which athletes essentially daydream their own perfect performances, is widely used to maximize athletic performance.

The importance of allowing your brain to have creative flow through such avenues as daydreams is a critical piece of entrepreneurial success.

So take that break and allow your mind to flow freely...you never know what ideas may become as famous as Edison's or Freud's.

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A pioneer in the virtual world, as well as an author, speaker and business coach, Jennifer Wong has been helping entrepreneurs or "homepreneurs" succeed with their businesses for over 10 years. Sign up at http://www.thehomebizbuzz.com for her intense, information-packed ezine to be in on the buzz for your small business. Whether you're just starting out with your dream business, or simply looking for resources for your existing business, you won't want to miss getting in on the BUZZ.