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Count the Cost

February 17, 2012 in Your Dream with 15 Appreciated Comments

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Dreams don’t come easy.

They require hard work, dedication and a laser focus on your goal. They take planning and striving and evaluation. They will steal your time and energy and resources. They require early mornings, late nights and a lot of your free time. They are hard task managers, never taking a day off for vacation or holidays. They will push you to your breaking point, give the illusion that they will never happen and sap every bit of your mental, emotional and physical energy. They will take you on a roller coaster of emotions, from excited to frustrated to the verge of giving up and back again.

Dreams demand a lot.

It’s why so many are unfulfilled.

The Practical Side of Dreaming

February 13, 2012 in Your Dream with 15 Appreciated Comments

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Last week, we looked at pursuing our dreams.

I wrote about how it’s important to take time to dream.
We discussed the act of rediscovering the gifts and passions that form our dream.
We even talked about the time it takes for a dream to form.

We love talking about our dreams.

It’s easy to sit behind a computer screen and write about these big ideals we have for our lives. We like to share our dreams with friends and family and coworkers. We get a sense of satisfaction talking about what we want to do with our lives.

There’s no work involved in sharing a dream.
No risk, either.

But sharing our ideals and thoughts and desires doesn’t bring our dream any closer to reality.

Dreaming Over Time

February 10, 2012 in Your Dream with 11 Appreciated Comments

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Dreams take time.

It’s a fact many of us acknowledge.

Dreams take time to start.
Time to achieve.
Time to clarify.
Time to vocalize.
Time to work through, pray about, and share.

But there’s another area in which dreams take time that we tend to overlook.

Dreams take time to form.

(Re)Discovering Your Dream

February 8, 2012 in Your Dream with 30 Appreciated Comments

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Dreaming is vital to our well being.

It helps us focus on what is important. It gives us something to shoot for. It energizes us when life seems bland. It gives us hope, pushes us forward and keeps us from becoming complacent and stale in our lives.

We need dreams.

But sometimes, knowing our dream isn’t easy.

Taking Time to Dream

February 6, 2012 in Leadership, Life, Your Dream with 21 Appreciated Comments

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Every so often, I need a visioning day: a day where I gather others around me and we start visioning and dreaming about the future of Ignite. It’s a day that refreshes me, recharges me and gives me focus for the next few months.

Friday was that day.

I had a Skype call to start planning and throwing out ideas about our Romania 2012 mission trip. I went out for coffee with one of my students and talked about how to improve the Ignite group at Monmouth. I went to dinner with our Student Representative to the Ignite Board, and dreamed about what Ignite could look like 5, 10, even 20 years down the road.

We dreamed about future trips to Romania.
We talked about monthly community service projects.
We thought about training programs, a school of ministry, and mapped out some new resources we hope to have available in the next few months.
We looked over logistics, came up with some strategic plans and set some deadlines to see these dreams become reality.

It was a refreshing day.

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Capturing Your Dream

January 18, 2012 in Your Dream with 23 Appreciated Comments

The current look of my dream wall.

I have a lot of dreams.

If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time, this doesn’t come as a surprise to you.

I have dreams of impacting more colleges. I have dreams about focusing on Ignite full time. I have dreams about traveling to new countries, meeting new people, and seeing God impact youth, young adults and university students around the world. I have dreams of orphanages and training centers and church plants. I have dreams about being out of debt, finally figuring out a way to have a decent income again and even writing a book…just to name a few.

Dreaming is easy for me.
Capturing those dreams and keeping them in front of me is not.