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[…]","datePublished":"2023-07-03","dateModified":"2023-03-01","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/author\/algorithmlife\/#Person","name":"algorithmlife","url":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/author\/algorithmlife\/","identifier":1,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d9ce54bf7884db06c868d4c3d9f401d81cecc940d6403409642a6a34d06caa8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d9ce54bf7884db06c868d4c3d9f401d81cecc940d6403409642a6a34d06caa8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Person","name":"Dave Burnett"},"url":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/dream-more\/dream\/","about":["Dream More"],"wordCount":944,"articleBody":"Follow yours.Dream big.\u00a0 Really, really, really big.Be awe-struck.When I was 35, I had a problem.\u00a0 I accomplished the goals I set out to accomplish when I was a teenager.\u00a0 My dream was simple.\u00a0 I wanted a wonderful family, and from a material perspective I only had two things on my list: I wanted a nice house, with a view, and a cottage, with a view.\u00a0 By 35 I had all three.\u00a0 So now what?\u00a0 What was I going to do?\u00a0 I had realized my dreams which in retrospect were rather small compared to my abilities. So I was lost for several years.\u00a0 What do you do when you achieve your dreams?\u00a0 What do you do when you have decades more of life to live, and yet you were where you’d set out to be?\u00a0 I lost my drive.\u00a0 I lost my wanting for more.\u00a0 I lost what would get me out of bed in the mornings with a jump in my step.\u00a0 It was hard.\u00a0 Really, really hard.\u00a0 It was a crisis for sure, even before mid life. After flailing around in the dark for a couple of years, blaming everything around me for my discontented state,\u00a0 I finally learned that if you don’t dream big enough, you might run the risk of achieving your dreams.\u00a0 That sounds strange to say, risk achieving your dreams, but it’s true.\u00a0 The reality is if you’ve been striving the whole time, and then finally make it, there’s not joy on the other side, there isn’t enlightenment, there isn’t freedom. There’s only the next day. That next day with you staring at you in the mirror saying ‘now what?’\u00a0 I had dreamed a dream I was fully capable of fulfilling as who I was when I was 18.\u00a0 I didn’t have to become more, I just had to be me, and I would get there.\u00a0 I certainly couldn’t see that at the time.\u00a0 It seemed like a huge goal.\u00a0 An almost impossible feat.\u00a0 But I was wrong, and I wasn’t thankful I was there, I was lost.\u00a0 When I look at it now, I was living the dream of millions of people, and I wasn’t thankful for it.\u00a0 I didn’t appreciate what I had. So what I had to learn was two things.\u00a0 The first is to be grateful for what you have, so that when you have more, you’ll be grateful for that too.\u00a0 And the second thing was to dream bigger.\u00a0 Really, really big.\u00a0 When I finally realized that, I decided to have a new dream, but I wasn’t going to make the same mistake of dreaming too small again. Let me walk you through the steps.\u00a0 I thought to myself, ‘I’d like to have more money, and I want to live in Hawaii.’\u00a0 Those are pretty broad, and could be anything.\u00a0 If I pick up a dollar in the street, that means I have more money.\u00a0 So I had to get specific.\u00a0 As I was getting more specific, I kept in mind I wanted to get bigger.\u00a0 Then I dreamed even bigger than that.\u00a0 What would my dream be?\u00a0 To have a massive amount of money to change the world in some small way.\u00a0 So how much money do you need to change the world?\u00a0 A million dollars?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 A billion dollars?\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 A hundred billion dollars?\u00a0 That should do it.\u00a0 So that is my dream.\u00a0 To have a hundred billion dollars. Now what about Hawai’i?\u00a0 Do I want to own a run-down shack?\u00a0 I could buy that today.\u00a0 So that’s not going to do it.\u00a0 What about owning a hotel, so I could have some income as well?\u00a0 That’s currently out of my reach, and bigger for sure, but is that big enough?\u00a0 Will that keep driving me?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 I could get there in a few years if I tried. Then I learned that Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, bought the island of Lana’i for five hundred million dollars.\u00a0 Now that sounds better!\u00a0 I don’t just want a hotel, I want to own the Island of Lana’i.\u00a0 That is a dream worth having.\u00a0 That is a dream worth pursuing.\u00a0 That is something that will keep me going until the end of days. So now that I have the dream, and it is specific, measurable and achievable (because other people have done it, so why couldn’t I?), what was the next thing to actually making it happen?\u00a0 It’s one thing to dream, it’s something completely different to making it happen. I realized in that moment, I had a problem. The problem wasn’t the obvious, that I didn’t have the money yet.\u00a0 I realized I was not yet the type of person who would have a hundred billion dollars.\u00a0 Or own the island of Lana’i.\u00a0 I couldn’t.\u00a0 I didn’t know how.\u00a0 Yet. That’s when I realized it was not about the money, or the dream, or the Hawaiian island.\u00a0 That’s what I want to pass on to you.\u00a0 This realization that the real value of a dream is not the thing itself, or the circumstances, or the pride of ownership, but who you have to become to attract those things into your life. The bigger you dream, the more you will demand of yourself, and the closer you will become to reaching your potential.\u00a0 It’s not about what you have, it’s about who you have to become, to have those things. So dream big.\u00a0 Really, really big.\u00a0 Then go get it."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Dream More","item":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/dream-more\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Dream","item":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/dream-more\/dream\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]