A short motivational YouTube talk by Brendan about whether one can "dream too big." Brendan argues big dreams themselves aren't the problem—failure to plan, schedule, recruit a team, and develop skills is. He contrasts "dream mode" (ideas, vision) with "development mode" (work plans, routines, scheduled practice), recommends scheduling implementation on a calendar, planning for worst-case scenarios, building a team, and committing to skill acquisition. The video closes with calls-to-action to subscribe, get his book, and sign up for his newsletter.
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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, this vibrant, ambitious, challenging, major contributing life. You want to change the world. But 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. How do you know what that barrier is? Well, first and foremost, I don't think anyone can think too big. I think the real challenge is too many people fail to plan big. They have a big dream, but it never hits a piece of paper, never hits a business plan, never hits a step by step, 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 to hit development mode. A work plan, a structure, a habit, a routine, a step by step. So I tell you, look, you can 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? You. 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. So 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 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 history. I was raised 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. I can manage the hate. My ego isn't so big that I can't take lessons learned. My ego is not so big that I can't take, you know, people throwing darts at me once in a while. I was 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 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, focused 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 charged life. Hey guys, it's Brendan. Did you like this episode? If you did, you can do three things right now to continue your journey. First, you can subscribe right here to my channel, which I hope you will, so I can keep sending you videos on a weekly basis to change your life. Second, you can get my brand new book for free by clicking the link right here. And third, you can also go to my website, sign up for my newsletter so I can send you free offers, free products, free programs, updates on my events, new podcasts, and everything else that we don't do on this channel here. If you like to do that, just go ahead and click any of these buttons you see right here. Look forward to seeing it on the next video. Until then, go out there every single day of your life. Live fully, love openly and make your difference today.
