My dream is not fiscially responsible

Objection: My dream is not fiscally responsible

Response: The best way to deal with this objection is to brainstorm how to make your dream work and to do an analysis of the absolute best and worst-case scenario of completely failing in pursuit of your dreams.

Exercise 1: How to Make your Dream Work

• Brainstorm every single way to monetize your dream.
• Ask advice from people you trust, mentors, etc.
• Make Time. Maybe you can’t pursue your dream full time, but when can you pursue it? A helpful way to find space in your schedule is to list your daily activities for a week. At the end of the week, cut activities that aren’t essential and replace it with dream-pursuing time.

Exercise: Worst & Best Case Analysis

1. List the worst possible things that could happen you try and fail to achieve your dream.
2. List the best possible things that could happen if you try and succeed.
3. Visualize what failure would look like.
4. Visualize what success would look like.
5. List the intangible rewards – experience, growth, connections, etc.
6. Make a back up plan – what will you do if you fail?
7. Ask this – if you fail at a dream will you still be able to find a way to survive – to breathe, to eat, to have shelter, to have clothing, and to maintain relationships with loved ones?
8. Decide: is risk of failure worth the potential rewards? If so, go for it and chase your dream! If not, find a way modify your dream or your life so that the risk of failure becomes acceptable. For example, pursue your dream one small step at a time – or pursue it in your spare time, until you find a way to completely dedicate yourself to it. Figure out what resources you need and make a plan to get them

When thinking of taking a big risk, keep this in mind: if you have a passion, pursue it with all your heart, tell everyone you can about it, and the means to keep pursuing it will present themselves. Solutions become apparent to those who follow their true passions.

For example, it was a huge risk to quit our jobs and pursue The Dream Share Project. However, we did a worst-case scenario analysis and decided the risk was worth the potential rewards, both tangible and intangible. We figured out the maximum amount of money it would cost to take our trip. Then, we came up with an acceptable amount of money to have when we got back. We worked at our jobs (despite not having a true passion for them) until we had the resources we needed to chase our dream. We made our peace with our ability and willingness to take a job, any job, when we got back in order to have enough money to live. We weighed the risk, potential rewards, and our passions and eventually got to a point where we felt completely comfortable chasing our dreams. Our hearts are content and this trip hasn’t yielded any monetary profit to date. The value of the trip in what it has taught us, the experience, the inspiration we have felt, and the freedom we have tasted has no monetary equivalent that we can imagine. Follow your dreams and you may learn as we have that Dreams are priceless.