I'm Dreaming

Tim recently attended the alumni conference for his MBA program and came home inspired by many of the speakers and the topics discussed. I have to say the most interesting bit that he shared with me was an exercise about identifying your goals. The exercise is very straight forward...write a list of your dreams...100 of them. Yes, I said 100.

My first response when Tim told me about this was, “What qualifies as a dream?” One-hundred seems like a lot to me since I have always considered my “dreams” to be the big, big goals in my life.  You know, the top-tier goals, like starting my own design firm, not learning to make a perfect loaf of bread (that is something I want to do, but if asked, I would qualify that as a goal, not a dream).  How would you describe the difference between a goal and a dream?

Dictionary.com defines them as follows:

Dream   noun, often attributive 

: a strongly desired goal or purpose <a dream of becoming president>

Goal   noun 

: the end toward which effort is directed

Anyway, I have decided to start writing my list of 100 dreams. At the same time I am going to take Design Darling's challenge to make a list of 101 things I'd like to accomplish in 1001 days. (I'm very late to this party, but better late than never, right?)

Via Design Darling

Who wants to do this with me?  101 things in 1001 days (that's 2.75 years).  Big things or small things, it's up to you.  Head over to Design Darling to see her list...

While I am not ready to share my list of dreams, I'll share my '101 Things' next week.