.....Why I Am Optimistic About the Future

I am optimistic by nature. An entrepreneur friend of mine
gave me a term that
I have grown to love. She calls it
"psychic income." It's that bit of hoped-for
future income
that is in our minds, that drives some of us, inflicted with
the
entrepreneurial gene, to do the next deal, make the next
big plan, scheme yet
another scheme to finally hit whatever
counts as the big one for each of us.
How
much better would our life be, how our problems
would go away, if only this one
thing would come about!
It has not yet become real income, yet we live and act
as
if it is almost real. We can feel it getting ready to happen.
It is still in
our heads, this psychic income.
Yet it is in some ways real for us.
.......

For some, I should note, psychic income is not just about
money.  It may be
about the next promotion or the next
big discovery. For some of us, it is just
having our ideas
accepted and validated in the court of human opinion.
It is
simply what drives us......