We Have to Dream Big

Bora Bora Landscape by tiarescott

Frans, my vocalist, and I talked about success for life after we finished yesterday’s vocal recording session. We brought it up because Adit, my guitarist, has been missing from our social life for these past few weeks. We both think it’s because having a nine-to-five desk job takes a serious amount from our reserve of time such that we rarely have time for ourselves other than weekends.

My previous education tells me that success is having freedom of money and freedom of time (I now add real happiness and understanding of fundamental human principles to that list). Plenty entrepreneurs have achieved freedom of money but not freedom of time, and non-workers have freedom of time but no money. To achieve both takes a huge amount of effort, investment and long term thinking, which is why most of us would rather choose a steady, stable, easy, and instantly rewarding nine-to-five job.

Frans is an insurance agent, and I was in a Multi-Level Marketing company once [1] so it’s natural that we both share a common paradigm on success and having the drive to achieve that success. He is currently focusing on enlarging the revenue of his business in order to win a trip to Lyons or Paris, and also to purchase the down payment for his car and rent an apartment. We talked about it as I drove him home, and it made me think about how we need to dream big in order to achieve big success.

I was a dreamer once

There was a time when I shared the same type of dreams that Frans has now: to be successful in terms of material measurement. There’s a part of me that still has the desire to achieve material wealth, but the degree to which I dedicate my time and energy to that goal has decreased significantly. However, talking about it again with Frans yesterday consolidated the conflicting interests I’ve been having ever since I became a non-active network marketer and pursued a career according to my passion instead.

When we dream, we should dream big. But I believe not everybody wants to achieve the same degree of success Frans and I were talking about [2]. This paradigm and the necessity to dream big belongs only to a small handful of us who are willing to take responsibility over our lives and become our own captains in our journey towards success in life.

In order to do that, we can’t dream small. The energy it takes to think about small dreams is the same as big dreams, so why not dream big instead? It might sound preposterous and ridiculous at first, but every major advancement in culture and technology has been because of the “crazy” people in our society.

Dream big with love

It’s been quite a while since I dreamed big – I think it’s time to return to that man I once was. This time though the dreams are different although the responsibility is just as large. And this time there may be less glory and coolness involved.

So dream big. Dream big because it’s the only way to dream. Dream big because small dreams are for small people who aren’t made to create the high impact change in our world for a better place.

Dream big with love. Dream big with principles. And most of all, dream big with an open mind, a humble heart, and a great sense of humor.

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[1] Why People Hate MLM People, 2009
[2] 95/5, 2010
[3] Photograph by tiarescott. Because I want to go there someday, a la shoestring