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
