Am I Dreaming Too Big?

Welcome to the Charged Life. This is Brendan Burchall. Can you think too big? I mean, can you have dreams that are just way beyond your reach? Can you have ambitions, desires, goals, things you really want to do with your life and they're just never going to be possible? I mean, if you're that person who says, well, I want to walk on the moon and that's just not likely for you, how do you deal with that? How do you know when you're thinking too big? People ask me this all the time because they have big dreams. And, you know, you think about the charged life you want to live. You know, this vibrant, ambitious, challenging, major contributing life. You want to change the world. But you know, some people can't even change their own world. So let alone changing the rest of the world is going to be a little difficult, Right? So how do you know what that barrier is? Well, first and foremost, I don't think anyone can think think too big. I think the real challenge is too many people fail to plan big, right? They have a big dream, but it never hits a piece of paper, never hits a business plan, never hits a step by step. It never really gets into development mode. It's in dream mode all the time. They're two different things, right? You got dream mode, vision, vision, vision, ideas, ideas, ideas. But at some point, that's how you hit development mode. A work plan, a structure, a habit, a routine, a step by step. So I tell you, look, you cannot be a dreamer all your life, but at some point you got to become a doer as well if you're going to actualize that. So let me ask you this. That big resolution you have in your life, that big enormous dream, is there a written plan somewhere? Have you really structured it somewhere? And here's the ultimate test. Can you show me on your calendar the hours you're spending this week focused on that, on implementing it, not just ideation, implementing. Where is it? Is it scheduled one to three o'clock on Tuesday? Is it your morning routine that's moving you towards it? If you have a big, huge vision, goal or dream, where is it scheduled on your calendar? If it's not there, you'll just keep operating towards the randomness of the universe. You'll just keep kind of doing whatever going over here, getting lost in distraction over there. So yeah, you're thinking too big. If it's never landing on the small calendar. The second idea I think about is to know whether or not you're thinking too big is plan for the worst case scenario. What's the worst case scenario? If you began it, you really got going along, and it crashed and burned. What's the worst case scenario? You know, for a lot of people, it's like, why? I'd go into bankruptcy, or I'd lose respect of somebody I care about, or I'd lose my job, or I lose this opportunity forever. And the reality is, you know, well, while life is short, life is also full of second chances. And so I always tell people, don't be so scared of your big dreams. The worst case scenario? Yeah, you're out in your butt on the street. So what? You'll figure it out from there. I've gone bankrupt before, chasing my big dream to do these videos, to write books, to become a seminar leader, to do online training and thought leadership. And now I'm blessed. You know, oprah.com named me, you know, as one of the most successful online trainers in history. I was rated in the top 25 of all personal development leaders in the world. Why? Because even when I had big dreams and I was bankrupt, I didn't doubt it. I thought, what's the worst case scenario? Someone's gonna make fun of me for trying. So what? I can manage the hate. My ego isn't so big that I can't take lessons learned. My ego's not so big that I can't take, you know, people throwing darts at me once in a while. It's like, look, so what? So what if you dream big and you try and people make fun of you? So what if they make fun of you? They're making fun of you already. They're just going to keep making fun of you. Now maybe there's more people making fun of you. How are you going to deal with that? You're an adult. You can handle it. Come on. Don't worry so much about rejection. If you still worry about rejection, watch my YouTube video on the myth of rejection. And that might help you a little bit get over that. I'd also say it's not that people think too big. It's that they think in silos of what they're capable of. I would say, never let your current competencies or capabilities limit your vision for the future. And so my takeaway here is think, team. Don't think you have to do everything yourself. If your dream is go to the moon and you're saying, well, Brenda, I'm going to do it by myself, well, yeah, you're thinking too big. You're an idiot. But. But if you're thinking team, I mean, to go to the moon. We needed all of NASA. We needed like literally thousands and thousands of contractors and tens of thousands of man hours that were separate from even the people who were paid to go to the moon. It's like you have to think of team. You need people to support you on a journey to a bigger vision. Who are they? Have you hired them? Have you recruited them? Have you enrolled them in the vision? Have you got people excited about it? Yeah, your dream is too big if you haven't involved anybody else in actually coming up with it and achieving it. Last big idea is if you got a big dream and you're not currently developing your skill sets to achieve it, then yeah, you're thinking too big. You got to be thinking like, if you want to go to the Olympics, the entire march to Olympics continues to be skill acquisition, the refinement of talent, training, conditioning, over and over and over. Practice, practice, practice, practice. That's how you achieve a big vision. So look at your calendar. Where's the training? Where's the practice? Where's the skill development? If you're not developing yourself to achieve a dream, then you're just a dreamer. If you're developing yourself consistently with focused sort of lesson plans, focus practices, developing that skill to be able to do it well, then you're on your way. And you're not only going to achieve that big goal or that big dream, you're going to live what we call the charge life. Hey, it's Brendan again. Did you notice something in today's episode? Yep. No ads, no sponsors, just a positive message to improve your your day. How do I do it? How is it that you listen to all those other podcasts and they have minutes and minutes worth of lame ads for underwear or other websites they're promoting? Hey, I don't judge them, but I choose to focus on you in this podcast. And personally, when I listen to other shows, I just skip those long winded sponsor pitches. Anyway, I can only do this because you share my podcast with so many other people and enough folks end up looking me up online and buying my books or taking my online courses that I can self fund this entire effort. And you know how hard it is to do all this and that's why I appreciate you guys so much. I heard that you even helped me break a record too. The longest running top 10 self help show without a single sponsor or product pitch or ad. So if you like this podcast ad free and sponsor free, do me a favor, tell a friend today, you know, you should listen to the Charged Life Brendon Burchard's podcast. Just help spread the word, share why you like my show, or tell people to go to podcast.brendon.com it would sure help and I'd appreciate it. And I'm sure our community would too. I look forward to talking with you again soon, my friend. Until then, go out there every single day of your life. Live fully, love openly, and make your difference today.