Episode Transcript
[00:00:10] Hello, friend, and welcome to Imagine the Possibilities.
[00:00:14] Skip here. And I'm glad you chose to join me today.
[00:00:20] I was thinking the other day, and some people say that can be a little scary when I get to thinking. Anyway, I let my mind wander a bit and I realized something about myself.
[00:00:35] I realized I'm a dreamer now. Not in a bad way.
[00:00:42] It's not that I don't take action when I dream, but in a way, I guess, that says I tend to see what could be before I think about how could I make that happen.
[00:01:02] This podcast, I guess, is a good example.
[00:01:05] I wanted to do the podcast, but I didn't think about it first. I just. I went to everybody and said, I want to do a podcast. I want to do a podcast.
[00:01:15] But I didn't think about all the stuff that I was going to need to make that happen.
[00:01:22] I mean, I tend to see.
[00:01:24] I see it as a dream.
[00:01:28] And I'm not always focused on what I need to do to make that dream a reality.
[00:01:40] But I ask myself, is just dreaming enough?
[00:01:46] Let me give you an example. Something.
[00:01:49] There was a time when two brothers looked up in the sky and they believed something most people thought was impossible, that humans could fly.
[00:02:04] They didn't start with blueprints of airplanes. They started with a question.
[00:02:10] And that question was, what if?
[00:02:15] Now, I have to believe that a lot of us have had what if moments like that, you know, where we've had an idea that mattered deeply to us.
[00:02:31] When an idea shows up in our life, something happens.
[00:02:37] Some of us simply imagine it, and some of us act on it.
[00:02:45] And some of us just pause and ask ourselves, does this even belong to us?
[00:02:54] We often talk about dreamers and doers like they're two different people, but I don't think that's always true.
[00:03:07] A dreamer sees possibilities before process.
[00:03:13] They feel meaning before movement.
[00:03:17] And I can tell you they tend to live a few steps into the future.
[00:03:25] On the other hand, a doer finds energy in the doing in action, and they learn by doing, and they build momentum through progress.
[00:03:42] Now, I believe the truth is that most of us are both.
[00:03:49] And we just simply move between those two spaces, dreaming and doing.
[00:03:55] And that movement is dependent upon where we are in the process and how confident we feel.
[00:04:06] I think once we begin seeing ourselves clearly, it asks something about us.
[00:04:15] Can dreamers be successful on their own?
[00:04:19] I believe the answer is yes, because. And we've talked about this before, because success isn't always loud.
[00:04:28] Sometimes it isn't even visible like, we think about it.
[00:04:34] And I think we all know that success isn't always immediate.
[00:04:42] We don't see something and do it one time and say, that's it.
[00:04:47] And even if we do that, we may have to wait, depending on what our dream is to actually see the results.
[00:04:58] Now, sometimes success looks like staying true to something, and we stay true even if no one else sees it.
[00:05:09] It's about creating without applause, about believing without validation.
[00:05:17] I'm sure you've probably experienced this, but for me, sometimes the dream is really personal.
[00:05:24] But some dreams are formative, and other times the dream's meant to shape us.
[00:05:31] And they'll do that a lot of times before they even become something we share.
[00:05:38] Here's something that I think I feel like is true, that not every meaningful dream needs to be completed to be successful.
[00:05:51] For me, something started to shift when I looked at the Wright Brothers, because they didn't go from dreaming to flying.
[00:06:04] Didn't happen that way.
[00:06:06] They actually built a wind tunnel.
[00:06:09] They created a space where they could test and learn and fail safely.
[00:06:18] And they began to actually understand what was really possible.
[00:06:25] Most, I think most often the distance between dreaming and doing isn't a leap.
[00:06:35] Most of the time, it's a step.
[00:06:39] And that step's called belief.
[00:06:42] Now, that may be where we get stuck in thinking back to some of the dreams I've had and try to make them complete, try to finish that dream, build that dream.
[00:06:57] I get to that point of belief, and I did get stuck.
[00:07:03] And at first I thought it was from lack of effort or I thought maybe I'd missed a step.
[00:07:13] Then I realized that believing isn't just mind.
[00:07:21] Just, you know, it sees things and it's built.
[00:07:26] And that building comes through learning and testing and understanding.
[00:07:35] Maybe that's where doers come in.
[00:07:38] Not so much to take over the dream, but to help us build a path forward.
[00:07:46] I guess I would say the dreamer protects the why and the doer builds the how.
[00:07:54] And when those two stay connected, the dream stays intact.
[00:08:03] Even if it's me by myself.
[00:08:06] And I had a dream of something I wanted to build, and I started to build it.
[00:08:13] As long as I stay connected in both the dreaming and doing, the dream stays intact.
[00:08:21] But if there's a disconnect, there's an issue.
[00:08:26] Sometimes there's a question that shows up at some point. Will this stop being my dream and become someone else's dream?
[00:08:40] From my perspective, the truth is that dreams are rarely taken by somebody else.
[00:08:48] But they drift.
[00:08:50] They drift because sometimes we want to complete the dream faster than understanding the meaning of the dream, it can happen because we make decisions without alignment.
[00:09:12] Or it can happen.
[00:09:14] And we've probably all seen this in even projects that people work on from a dream that somebody, an idea, a dream that somebody had is that we stop thinking about and talking to our dream.
[00:09:32] And when that happens, sometimes something just feels off from that point point on.
[00:09:42] I don't think that's because we're trying to control our dream, but we just all of a sudden feel disconnected when we stop speaking to the dream.
[00:09:57] The dream doesn't stop moving.
[00:10:00] It just. It moves without us.
[00:10:04] And sometimes, sometimes when we have a dream, we've got to be both. We've got to be a dreamer and a doer.
[00:10:12] I think that's because sometimes dreams aren't meant so much to be built as they're meant to build us.
[00:10:24] I think sometimes that building your own wind tunnel makes means doing the work yourself for a while.
[00:10:36] Learning, trying, failing, adjusting.
[00:10:41] I think there's a point where dreams aren't just meant to be built.
[00:10:49] They're also meant to build us, to teach us things.
[00:10:54] And I think that's the part of it that's important.
[00:10:59] Anyway.
[00:11:00] I think sometimes when we say building your own wind tunnel means doing the work yourself for a season.
[00:11:12] To take the time to learn, take the time to try, even take the time to fail.
[00:11:23] And adjusting for each of those things, that's not stubbornness.
[00:11:32] I think that's formation.
[00:11:35] Maybe we don't need to leap.
[00:11:39] Maybe we just need to take the next step and allow ourselves to learn along the way.
[00:11:49] Just something to think about.
[00:11:52] Maybe the step we're missing isn't action.
[00:11:57] Maybe it's understanding.
[00:12:01] Maybe growth isn't about becoming less of a dreamer or more of a doer.
[00:12:08] Maybe we don't need the leap.
[00:12:11] Maybe we just need to take the next step and allow ourselves to learn as we're going through the process.
[00:12:21] Just something to think about.
[00:12:24] Maybe the step we're missing isn't action.
[00:12:28] Maybe it's simply understanding.
[00:12:33] Maybe growth isn't about becoming less of a dreamer or even more of a doer.
[00:12:40] Maybe it's about knowing when to dream, when to act, and when to hold that dream close enough that it stays honest.
[00:12:53] Before we wrap up, I want to share something I've been thinking about lately.
[00:13:02] Over the past year or so, I've read a couple books by Michael A. Singer, the Untethered Soul and the Surrender Experiment.
[00:13:14] For this I really liked them both for the simple reason they made me think.
[00:13:22] And then not too long ago, I was cruising around Amazon looking for another book to read and I follow most of the authors that I really like and I noticed Michael Singer had come out with a new book called Wisdom Untethered so I ordered a copy of it.
[00:13:46] I haven't completed it, but I've read most of it and I wasn't really surprised that it did the same thing.
[00:13:57] It inspired me and it challenged me just a bit and in some ways I guess it's connected to what we're talking about today, the space between where we are and what's possible.
[00:14:16] Anyway, just something that's been on my mind.
[00:14:21] Until next time.
[00:14:23] Stay humble, be kind, love unconditionally, and laugh often.
[00:14:31] Remember that your future belongs to you and never forget this.
[00:14:38] You're enough, you're worthy, you're always seen and I have no doubt that you have the ability to accomplish remarkable things.
[00:14:53] As always, I wish you much success.
[00:14:56] Have a super day and may God bless you in a super way.
[00:15:03] Thanks again and God bless.
