I came across this video today for a new car design. I remember as kid I used to dream of cars that might fly or take to the water. My Dad used to have a subscription to Popular Mechanics, which I suppose could have just as easily been called Dreamers Monthly. Each issue filled with the possibilities of tomorrow. Aqua cars, private spacecraft, dome homes and more.



Three hundred miles per gallon! That is almost hard to fathom. It completely shatters the current paradigm. All we hear about now is how things are scarce. "There is not enough oil." "The economy is going down the tubes." All this at the same time oil companies rake in record breaking profits. It seems like an international shell game with pundits telling their flock that big oil and the status quo are doing the best they can and that these are all purely market based phenomena. We hear things like: "Just hold on a little longer. We'll take care of you we just need to restructure the Federal Reserve System. We'll take care of you, we just need to read a few of your emails. We'll take care of you, just let us drill here." Does the status quo have something to gain? Something to gain by a world of limited possibilities? A world of not enough? A world where someone else with more resources will do it?

Will the Aptera, or others like it catch on? Who knows? It represents something more important though. It represents a possibility. One of many. The success of each possibility depending on our belief, courage and willingness to try something new, something different, something better. Is the glass half full or half empty. Is there enough to go around? ...or, just enough for me and mine? The most important currency and resource in existence is Our belief. Every day we choose to believe in something and we create our world by dreaming together.

The are always too many good excuses and blockades, too many reasons why we can't or won't: "It costs too much! It's a good idea, but it won't be accepted. It would be heresy!" The path never seems to be easy, but in the end it is dreamers that change the world. It is the people who challenge the established system, who swim upstream, who dare to question the way things are. People like Martin Luther King, Einstein, Jesus, Ghandi, Nicola Tesla, Benjamin Franklin the Dalai Lama and countless people we may never hear of. The essence of our potential lies in the pursuing the dream and the essence of failure lies in protecting the status quo. Dream and take action, even if your goal seems impossible.