Putting Your Dream to a Test
As a teenager growing up I had only one dream and that was to be an architect. I dreamed of designing a unique building and then having the joy of walking through it after it became a reality. One of the gifts of the high school I attended was I could immerse myself into all types of drafting. I took architectural drafting, electrical drafting, and mechanical drafting. My passion though was architectural drafting. I would even come to school early just to sit at my drafting table and work.
Today, I am still living out my passion, only I am not building buildings, I am helping others draft their dreams. For me, that is even a higher calling. There is unlimited latent potential inside everyone once they choose to seek it out and develop it. Buildings can be impressive, but they are static. Lives are fluid and can be guided to grow exponentially. Let me ask three simple questions.
1. Can you have a dream by itself?
When I would sit at the drafting table, I dreamed about building a multipurpose community center that would be cost effective, energy efficient, and would be occupied 85% of the week to maximize its usefulness. Now the hard part came. Putting my mind to work and my pen (black Indian ink back then – no CAD program) to paper. You need more than just a dream.
2. Are you a daydreamer or a dream doer?
I would venture to say almost every person living has a dream hidden inside them.
A dream of getting better at a hobby
A dream of having a bigger home
A dream of becoming a better golfer
A dream of visiting a foreign country
What is your inner dream? Afraid to look? Doubt you even have one? What is in your way? Are you in your own way? Great questions. Dreams require action. Walt Disney said, “If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.” Walt Disney didn’t just sit in his office and dream of a theme park, and draw a few sketches. Those thoughts and ideas had to become constructed, worked and explored through hard work. We need to put feet to our dreams.
3. How do you know if your dreams can become a reality?
This is such a great question to ask. If you are like me, most of us have an idea – a dream; then we either abort this idea immediately after we get it, or we start acting on it but then quit. However, because their dream has not passed a critical set of questions after they start moving towards it they become unsure at the first sign of difficulty, or delay, they bail out and then proceed to condemn themselves for having the wrong dream and stop dreaming altogether.
For the next several weeks, I will be examining ten key questions you and I need to ask ourselves to determine if the dream is ours or just the result of a bad pizza. On my “Weekly Free Impact Mentoring Calls” I will be exploring these questions and much more. Questions like the ownership question; the clarity question; and the reality question. But before you and I consider these ten questions, you may be better served by asking yourself three more questions.
2. Have you reached your dream yet?
3. Do you want to get together with people to talk about it?
If you answered, yes, no and yes, then may I encourage you to jump on the call this coming Wednesday (or any Wednesday) at 7:00 pm (MST) and let me help you build your dream. Go to my website and click on the Free Weekly Mentoring tab and it will take you directly to get the call details. Remember, my dream was and still is to be an architect. Wednesday’s calls are a great foundation for you to start reaching your potential.
Next week, everyone loves to dream, but everyone hates the other “D” word that is required to go with it.
“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson