Chad Silverstein says most people skip the crucial step of writing down a bold vision for their work and life. He argues that pen and paper, not typing, makes the difference, and that small exploratory steps can turn unrealistic goals into reality. Ask yourself: do you want to be doing what you're doing now in 10 to 25 years?
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You know, it's interesting. I've come into contact with a lot of people in the Build to Lead program. And the ones who really take to it, they get busy writing down their opus. They. They all do it at different times of the process and they have fun, you know, authoring their vision for what they want and their work and their life. It's incredible how many people don't do this, how many people outside of build2lead and how many people even inside the program that they're aware of it, but they don't do it because they think it's a little unrealistic. They don't want to spend the time or invest the time in doing it. But the only way to actually set out a big goal and like go after it and get busy going after it is one, you have to believe that it's possible that you can achieve this even when it's unrealistic. And it starts with you actually investing the time with pen and paper to write it out, which is where most people stop anyways, because they just say they don't have time or they don't like to write or for whatever reason are lazy and just don't want to do it. But it's the only, only way to actually do it. That's why so few people do it. So why would you want to be like everyone else? Like, we're on day 151, if you don't have something written down, some version, some rinse of something, like, just do it. Just have fun being unrealistic. And if you were to shed away all of the barriers, take the ceiling off of your head, don't worry about how much money you can or can't make, or if you're not talented yet or have the skill, and just have fun, like green light thinking for yourself. In a perfect world, what could be a big dream for your work and life? And like, have fun. That's a motivating and an exciting opportunity for you to do an exercise that normally you would never do and most people will never do. And I think you don't know what's going to come out of that session. And if you do it over and over and over, you'd be surprised how putting some energy and thought into it actually, like, creates something that you might just say, you know what, maybe it's not as unrealistic as I thought it was. And maybe you just take a baby step to explore it a little bit further, do a little discovery, connect with someone who is an expert at it or who knows you may uncover something is the point. And you won't know unless you actually try. So this isn't about writing something down on paper to prove to yourself that you can have a version of it. It's. It's real. It's really, it's. It's real. It's. You don't have to follow what everyone does, but you just get a job, save money, buy your house. Like you could really write an author, something that will light you up despite what anyone else will say, and just see what comes from it. And so that's my challenge for you today, is to do that. If you haven't done it already, do it. And by this time, you've been working on your core and you hopefully know who you are, you know what you believe, and you know the whole point is to throw the rock out. 10, 15, 25 years. I would. I will end this on, on this note. Ask yourself right now if the things that you're doing are things that you want to be doing 10, 15, 20 years from now. And if you say no, then question why you're doing it. You might have a good answer. You may not, but I like to think that I'm making decisions and doing things today that I going to be wanting to do in the future. And so just something to think about and write about.
