Over the last 20 years I've consulted with maybe 30 entrepreneurs, and what I find is that some of them get too caught up in the dream of some day being rich an

Over the last 20 years I've consulted with maybe 30 entrepreneurs, and what I find is that some of them get too caught up in the dream of some day being rich and famous. The ones who are successful are the ones who remain pragmatic and stay focused on what they need to do today. The irony is that, even for the dreamers, all their dreams can come true: they might some day be rich and famous and yet, perhaps paradoxically, the best way to make that happen is to not think about it, and instead stay focused on what you can do for your real customers, right now, today. (At the risk of too much self-promotion, I recently wrote a book, "One on one meetings are underrated; Group meetings waste time" and I devote a long chapter to 2 stories of pragmatic success contrasted with 2 stories of failure due to dreaming.)