January 2016
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. - Yogi Berra Are you spinning your wheels? Only dreaming instead of also doing? Taking decades to do what can be done in months? If so, you are not alone. A lot of folks, including inventors, let life pass them by. Life is too precious for that. Setting goals can help you live a full and exciting life, which includes bringing your inventions to market. Richard McVicker (member of the Indiana Inventors Association for more than 40 years, patent illustrator at Barnes & Thornburg LLP for 49 years, and patent-holding inventor for 55 years) told us how. Try it; you’ll like it. A goal is a specific, attainable, and major accomplishment that you crave with your whole being. Want it so badly that you imagine it with all of your senses. Figure out: what you want and when you want it; who will benefit from it; and what you will do and whe...