When I was young and in love, my dreams for the future were as romantic as my waking thoughts were for my one true love. She still captivates my senses (distracts me when she walks in the room) but the dreams of our ideal business, or our ideal home are distant memories. For the most part they were only practical for a young couple with no children and a lot more energy.

Fast Forward To Reality

Just because we give up a dream doesn’t mean we should stop dreaming. I’m discovering a new fascination for dreaming that directly affects my creativity. When you work for yourself it doesn’t do much good to have a suggestion program, or hang a box on the wall. Around here that box gets crammed with ‘Let’s Go To Disney World’ post its.

I hope to never complain that anyone in my network has dreams that are too big. Whatever their long range goals are, if they have short range goals to get them there, I’ll just keep cheering them on. The truth is my goals today are far loftier than they ever were before, and I have mentors who’ve obtained them to imitate. So now I begin to consider that my goals aren’t lofty enough.

Outside The Office… Outside The Cubicle… Way Outside The Box

If I’m really the weakest component of the network marketing opportunity, then personal development requires some serious imagination expansion. I’m penciling in some quality time with my four year old on tomorrows schedule. She may not be able to explain advanced copy writing skills, or SEO 2.0, but she always opens my eyes a little wider. She also forces me to listen a lot, and explain my explanations several times.