…start very small.
This goes out to the freshmen, the beginners, and the dreamers.
Courageously dive into the small things.
Obsess over the unnoticed and then expose use to the beauty we’ve overlooked.
Draw a map and then take us on a journey.
Taste test and then shape our taste.
Every big idea, person, place, or thing is big because someone was willing to go/be/act small.
When we arrive at what we saw we can always see further.
I have to think that even atop the mountains we climb, something pulls at us to go climb their neighbor.
Praise be that we don’t have finish lines.
We have journeys that birth journeys and the words etched on the gold found at the end of our rainbows read ‘see. there’s more.’
Denial?
Disbelief?
Doubt?
Distraction?
Walk through one of these and it’s quite hard to get back into the room where you cultivate your dreams.
Why have any plan that distracts from plan ‘A’? You don’t want that temptation and your dreams don’t deserve that either.
When we’re talking about your dreams, an exit strategy is an oxymoron. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Every iPhone sale makes the one you own just a bit more valuable. More connection = more value.
Every new idea you read connects with the previous ideas you’ve been exposed to and makes your new thinking and insight a little more valuable. More dots connected = more value = more people accessing your dots.
Every hand you shake increases the value of your previous handshakes. (Read The Power of Who for more here). More hands connected = more value.
You can play Angry Birds or you can connect with what you’re holding or looking at right now.
Tomorrow we won’t notice your decision, but five years from today we most certainly will.
What if we sought out the answers to a fraction of the things we wonder?
Surely we’ll find something – and therein lies my hope.
Let us be wanderers of our wonders.
Ashton.Gustafson 