In 2011, I was fortunate enough to attend a Dream Year weekend hosted by Ben Arment. Fast forward and today, Ben's book outlining the Dream Year process hits the shelves. The content in this book has been pretty significant to what we do with Ember - it has helped me immensely as I've pursued the dream of a starting a student missions leadership organization. The material in the book has also helped us as we've coached some of the emerging generation to pursue the passions that God has placed in their hearts. Some of you will remember that I tried to get a Dream Year Pitch Night up and running too. That didn't fly, but yes, I believe in it that much. Our ProtoGuides will be reading this book this coming semester and our Ember 14X team is all getting a copy too.
Here's some of the notes that I loved in the book:
Today, your only gatekeeper is courage.Get your copy soon and give your dreams a kick in the *ss.
It requires no courage to come up with an idea and wait for someone else to green-light it. You're asking the gatekeepers to have courage. You're asking investors to accept the risk. You're asking someone else to have faith in your dream.
You must choose which fear will be the strongest for you. If you don't choose one of them, one will be chosen for you. And it will be the fear of failure, each and every time.
As we grow older, dreams don't disappear. We trade them in for standards of living.
You can view the bad things in your life as either tragedy or trajectory. It all leads to something magnificent.
You don't go after your dream. It comes after you.
If you're not concerned about creating revenue, it's not a dream. It's a hobby.
A dream chaser is never clueless about money.
There are no such things as successful visionaries, only architects of successful vision-producing systems.
Have you ever met an insecure CEO?
Don't let rainmaking deter you from your dream. It's one of the barriers to entry, and you can overcome it.
[Related: Dream Year Weekend 1, 2, 3]
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