Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

At our Thursday Meetup last week our guest speaker was Conway Stone. He spoke about dreaming high and how to follow your dreams. He did a great job of enthusiastically sharing how we need to set goals and strive to reach them. That’s really not new as he told us because we have set goals and reached them all our lives. Graduate, get a job, get married, have kids, buy a home, get a new car. These are all goals we have set for ourselves and we reached these goals. The problem is we often don’t set our goals high enough.  One of his goals is to raise 1 million dollars for charity.   That’s  a very high goal.   One that we all hope he achieves.

 

Some goals are short term and some are long term.  Jake had a short term goal in place yesterday.  Jake’s kindergarten basketball payoff was yesterday. The towering 1st place trophy was sitting prominently on the announcer’s table. As Jake ran back and forth down the court he would stray in the direction of that table, glancing at the trophy as he passed. If a time-out was called (for someone to tie their shoe:) he would actually go stand in front of that table and stare at the trophy. His goal was set. He wanted to win that game.

 

A couple of week ago I read the book “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch. It’s all about achieving your childhood dreams. I had seen him on Oprah and it’s hard to describe all the emotions you feel as you listen.  I know you’ve probably seen it but it is well worth watching again.    The original lecture in it’s entirety is over 1 hour long and has over 11 million views.   How long has it been since you even thought about your childhood dreams.

 I don’t think there was any such thing as attention deficit when I was a kid. Maybe I was just decision impaired, but it seemed like I wanted to be something different every week. One week I wanted to be Napoleon Solo from “The Man from U.N.C.L.E” and the next week I wanted to be James Kirk from “Star Trek”. Later I wanted to be Marlow Thomas from “That Girl”. You can see that I was majorly influenced by T.V. which I’m sure is still the case with many kids today. Kind of makes you think. Well I’m actually glad I did not reach those specific dreams.

Some people seem to know from the very beginning what they want to be when they grow up. Lot’s of Olympic athletes talk about that. I heard Terry Bradshaw also talk about this once.  But I am not one of  those people.  I still often say “what should I be when I grow up”.   But I have been spending some time pondering what my childhood dreams really were. I always loved to travel and I am continuing to achieve that dream. I loved adventure and I loved playing Monopoly which has lead in some way to my interest in real estate and the thill of the deal.

I would love to know about some of your childhood dreams.  If you feel comfortable sharing let me know or add a comment.

If you are in the Louisville area join us Monday morning at Southeast Christian at 10am to talk about blogging and affiliate marketing:  http://www.meetup.com/Blogger-Afflilates-and-Internet-Marketers/

Also on Tuesday night please join us at The Ryan’s Steakhouse on Bardstown Road for a Networkers only meeting and help us organize our meeting scheule for the next few months.  We will meet at 6pm for dinner and begin our meeting at 6:30.  See you there.