
Quick. What's your dream? Can you state it clearly? Do you have your elevator speech about it prepared?
You should.
If you asked me what I wanted for my entrepreneurial start up 10 years ago. I would have stated my dream clearly. I wanted this PR firm to be one of the best in the country, to be in every executive's head when they thought of Public Relations and among the top three PR firms called for any bid at any time. If you asked me how I would achieve it, I would have given you a plan. One that sometimes worked, one whose writings I sometimes had to erase. A template that brought joy and one that was riddled with mistakes. But there it was nevertheless something with which to work.
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It is low tide. A huge white seagull glides over the blue island waters and settles down gently, taking up his post at the mouth of the bay. Standing guard on his thin elegant legs, he picks off the trespassers who naively swim too close to the shore. When he is full and the water begins to intrude again he takes off, a large flap of wings arcing over the bay.
I have a picture of my friend Brian fishing on the lakes of New Hampshire in New England and each time I have to write a business proposal I take it out of my photo album, pinch out the creases and place it on my desk. 

