Yesterday we shared our kid dreams of what we would work at when we grew up, and got a peek at the totally wicked cool kids you all were! Every comment made me smile or giggle or wonder in awe at your clever, imaginative, and daring younger selves. Y’all haven’t changed a bit!
My Big Dream
I could kick/kiss Bob from the Writing Journey for his Dream Meme. It’s a fantastic goal-setting exercise because: 1) by being specific we’re compelled to perceive our dreams as doable, and 2) by posting them we’re accountable to follow through. Darn/Thank you, Bob!
My dream is to enjoy useful, engaging, and lucrative work with the flexibility to live comfortably, give generously, travel regularly, sleep in, hang out, get fit, and cook (and eat) luxuriously until the end of my days.
AND
While savoring my ideal life, I will remember that it has not been, and will never be, solely about me. I am only a steward for my body, my wealth, and my possessions. Everything I have will go to others when everything I am has gone. All must be treated with respect and care for the benefit of their eventual recipients, not just for myself.
My three tangible goals for 2008:
- Transform my websites into helpful, easy-to-find, income-producing resources.
- Exercise daily.
- Draft a budget and live within my means.
My one action for today: Post this promise online and in my office. Which is more like two things. 
And You?
Straight from Bob—
The rules are simple:
- Write a short paragraph describing your dream. What is it that you want to accomplish? Your dream doesn’t have to be related to your blog, though it can be. It can be anything – what you dream for your family, your career or anything else you want out of life.
- Identify three tangible goals you can accomplish in the next year that will bring you closer to fulfilling that goal.
- Describe one action – just one – that you will take, today, to work toward your goals.
- Link back to this post, if you please.
- Feel free to post a link in the comments back to your post.
Straight from me—
Dream big
Make it real
Write it down
Post it up
Email me the link at crystal ayt bigbrightbulb dawt com and I’ll add your dream to the Pot below.
Pot O’ Dreams
Brett Legree at 6 Weeks: field of dreams – the dream meme.
Steph at In Other Words: Whatever You Wish For You Keep
Wendi Kelly at Life’s Little Inspirations: The Addiction of Conforming
Pamela Weir at Weir’d Marketing: My Own Writing Journey – The Dream Meme
Jeremy Adam Davis at Jeremy Adam Davis: My Dream Is…
Oh, And Another Thing…
The curse/blessing of reading tweets and articles and posts and essays written by people who are living their dreams and improving their lives and building their spirits and overcoming their fears and seeking their ideal worklife is—
You get restless and impatient and intolerant
with your own flawed and imperfect and incomplete bits.
At least, that’s what’s happened to me.
And when I think on who’s to blame/thank: Bob, Brett, Chris, Clay, Jan, Jeremy, Kelly, Kyle, Naomi, Pamela, Shawn, Sterling, and Wendy immediately come to mind.
Y’all’s words just will not let me settle. Thank you so much!
You are the coolest folks I’ve never seen.
When you want to change your life:
read what these people say, and
think and act on how you feel
I subscribed here a while ago and I don’t actually know if I’ve ever commented! Have I been a lurker?
I loved this dream meme, too. I saw it first on Brett’s site and felt inspired to write my own. I actually do this often, writing very specifically in an email, a journal, a blog post, telling it to my hubby. The more we envision it, hone it, specify it, the closer we become to realizing it. It’s exciting, actually! And it’s equally exciting to share it with others, to know all these people who have wonderful dreams, to know that good things are going to happen for them. Makes me happy.
Recent blog post from steph: “Whatever You Wish for You Keep” (dream meme)
I like this meme, Crystal.
It’s kinda scary how similar your goals are to mine, even the cooking part.
I going to try to draft mine tonight and post tomorrow. Thanks for the inspiration.
It’ll be good to fully think out some of my goals so that I can write them down.
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@ Crystal – Thanks for participating! I’ll accept both the kick and the kiss, LOL.
I think it’s a great exercise. Frankly, since I wrote that post and did it myself, my focus on my goals has been razor-sharp, and I’m making more progress in some areas than I have in months.
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A tough but worthy exercise Crystal, that you make easier by inspiring example — complete with doubts and restlessness and longing… I hate this kind of thing and now you’ve gone and inspired me to get on it.
Ugh.
I mean, thanks.
For everything.
@All—Thanks for coming by this morning! Now that I know you’ve read the post, I actually have to make this happen! Crap!
@Steph—Glad you unlurked
Excellent suggestions all around, with posting and journaling and talking about it. Specifying on all those different ‘channels’ sounds like a perfect way to reinforce and keep ya moving. I’ll be following your example, Thanks!
@Jeremy—For me, cooking my own meals helps with fitness/health AND better spending habits: 2 for 1 special. Why is cooking important for you? Looking forward to your post! Glad I could help
@Bob—Welcome! And oooo am I looking forward to progress and razor sharp focus, or what? Funny thing is, now that the dream is out here, it looks manageable. When it was in my head? Not so much! So I retract the kicking
@GirlPie—I know, I’m a total pain in the ass. My pleasure
Anytime.
Long ago, a friend called me the “harbinger of doom” because our longer conversations typically left him with something life-changing to do. He didn’t much mind the results of the change, but the change process? Doom, baby. To him it was doom.
Ok, I wrote mine as my post for today and I linked you on it. You can find it there.
Great idea Crystal and thanks for the comment and the link!
We all inspire each other. You inspire me all the time.
hugs.
Recent blog post from Wendi Kelly: The Addiction of Conforming
Go Wendi! What a great dream, and isn’t it wunnerful that you already have a fabulously robust head start?!
Gotta go…need to add your dream to the pot
Thanks for the ping!
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@ Wendi: Thanks to Crystal, I just read your dream post and commented.
Oh. And subscribed!
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Crystal,
This is great! First you dream it – then you do it.
You’ve got step one complete, and you’re working on step two.
Thanks for the thanks, and thanks for the inspiration – as I help you, you help me. We all help each other.
-Brett
Recent blog post from Brett Legree: field of dreams – the dream meme.
Crystal,
I love all these dreams I’m reading! Yours is so philosophical. It fits you perfectly. Exercise daily… mm, yes. I should be more careful about that one.
Thanks for the shout-out. I’ve had so many “kick in the pants” moments that I guess it’s now my duty to give back. Heck, I still have those moments, and thank the kicker.
Glad it works for you, and I’ll keep seeking and encouraging others to seek (“kicking”) as long as I can think of a couple of words to put together.
That’s probably gonna be for quite some time, lol.
Stay restless.
Regards,
Kelly
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Augh Crystal, that’s mighty good company I am keeping there. Thanks for the thanks/blame.
Virtual hugs to you and a solid go girl.
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Crystal,
Cooking lately has been sort of my zen. So much of my life revolves around technology. I develop during the day, design at night, and play video games when I want to relax.
I like cooking because it’s one thing that doesn’t require a power source to enjoy.
Some days I get really into it and cook desserts for 5 hours straight just to find people to give them to the next day. Weird I know, but I’m one of those ‘to the hilt’ kinda people that go all for it when they do something.
Then I find a new passion a month later and repeat the process with it.
Recent blog post from Jeremy Davis: What I Hate About Becoming a Designer
OK, I did it.
Here’s my Dream Meme Post
I resisted at first when it came time to start writing it, but I cannot begin to tell you how happy I am that I did.
Thanks for the challenge and good luck on your dreams.
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Your great dream. I pray god complete all dream. I have some dream such that i want to make good SEO in word this first dream.
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I wanted to be an astronaught
I got a degree in physics… pretty close.