“If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?”

—Thomas Lovell Beddoes, 19th Century English poet and physician

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Commercial flights into space! For those of us who once envisioned ourselves as astronauts, it seems this dream has an actual price.

Many people today have an increased hunger to explore the edges of life and websites such as www.xperiencedays.com offer all sorts of flying, travel, driving, and other out-of-this-world adventures to those folks with deep pockets.

Since the super-rich are a relatively small group, the rest of us may need to use alternative currencies to realized many of our dreams. Think back to the beginnings of our space program and the currency the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts needed to pay for their seat on the rockets to realize their dreams.

EXERCISE:

What are your current dreams? What price are you willing to pay to realized them? What are some of the non-monetary methods available to all of us to secure our seats and realize these futures?