In my opinion, “sweet dreams” aren’t the highest and best use of those hours in which you slumber. Since you were a baby, my standard blessing as you head off to bed has been “dream big!”
Develop BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) that are so compelling that they’ll fuel you over obstacles and through the criticism. Another good investment of your time would be to find the “Last Lecture” presentation by Randy Pausch. Randy was dying of pancreatic cancer and in this speech he suggests that the “brick walls” that we encounter while pursuing our dreams are simply there to allow us to show how badly we want something. Your BHAG will get you over that brick wall every time.
It’s energizing to have big dreams. Dream so big that you are just like a kid . . . so revved up that you never get tired. As Walt Disney put it, “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
This also reminds me of a Will Smith interview that I once saw. He said, “There’s a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have, you have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 50 million years of history, you have to believe that something different can happen.”
He continues, “Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity, why would you be realistic? I’m gonna do it, it’s done. It’s unrealistic to walk in a room and flip a switch and lights to come on. That’s unrealistic, fortunately Edison didn’t think so. It’s unrealistic to think you’re going to bend a piece of metal and fly people over an ocean in that metal, that’s unrealistic, but fortunately the Wright brothers and others didn’t believe that.”
Since I’m in a quote kind of mood, I’ll leave you with one more on this topic. It’s the signature advice from Apple founder, Steve Jobs:
Dream BIG, Bennett.
Be Unrealistic.
Stay foolish.
Do the impossible!
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