Never Stop Dreaming

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in Goal Setting, Motivation

Today I choose…..

In today’s blog I share a couple of my travel goals and vision board pictures with you.

The emotions associated with these places are nothing short of spectacular for me.  I’m sure you have similar places that conjure up the same feelings for you, right?

If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?  Who would you go with?

Read to the end of this post and I’ll share a cool and simple tip with you about what else I am doing with these pictures (and some others) that you can do too in just a few minutes.

Never stop dreaming.  I don’t care what anyone tells you.  Keep dreaming big, but recognize it takes a lot of work to make dreams come true.   Keeping pictures of places you want to go on a vision board is a great motivator.  Visualization is one of the most powerful and under utilized success habits I know.

Today’s focus is solely on the travel portion of my vision board.

Here are a few of the trips and adventures I am looking forward to most:

1.  Traveling to Brazil to watch the 2014 World Cup !

usa! usa! usa!

vamos a Brazil

2.  Visiting China

Great Wall of China

Jiuzhaigou National Park

Chinese Monastery

3.  Being at Wrigley Field to watch the Cubs win game 7 of the World Series

Imagine seeing this outside of Wrigley after winning game 7 of the World Series

with my dad and brother Sean at Wrigley Field

Cubs 2008 playoff game with my dad

4. & 5.  Arriving via an airplane water landing in Banff, Canada and the south shore of Lake Tahoe

 

6.  Traveling to outer space with Virgin Galactic.   Tickets are currently $200k though you can put a deposit down and reserve a spot for only $20,000.  Seems like a lots of money but going to out of space would be ___________  (fill in the blank)

catch a flight to space with Virgin Galactic

7.  Teleport to say….Pittsburgh and back in a matter of seconds.  Yes, teleporting! Inventing a teleporter is one of my wild goals.  Think I’m nuts?  Yeah probably a little.  But think about what your great-grandparents would say about the internet.  Does teleporting still seem so crazy?   ;)

a first generation teleporter

could teleports become as common as phone booths were?

8.  Hang out with Richard Branson on Necker Island

Richard Branson

Necker Island

9.  Take a two week luxurious African safari

African safari sunset

10.  Volunteer abroad for a year after age 65.  I’m still looking for a good picture for this one.  If you have one please leave a comment below and let me know or if you would, please email it to me at joe@jdscgroup.com.  Thanks!

What can you imagine doing or happening?  Dream big!  We are limited only by the size of our imaginations.

Hope you enjoyed this list and pictures from my dream board.  Have fun with your own list and virtual dream board if you decide to make one.

Bonus:  As a bonus for reading this far, I want to share a cool simple tip with you.  I saved all my “dream board” pictures (those above and more) to a folder and have them rotate every five seconds as my screen saver.  My screen saver has now become my vision board.  If anyone has questions on how to do this let me know and I will post step-by-step directions.

For further reading this week:  Check out The Magic of Thinking Big by Dr. David Schwartz

never stop dreaming

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  • Phil Miller

    Joe
    I love your blogs–you again have inspired me. I often write down what I call “dream notes”. The actual dreams are so real and personal, that I wake up and write down all that comes to my mind about the dreams. It is very motivating. It makes me want to act and perform my best. I also am probably twice your age, but I have told my son about you and he has the spirit of a great entrepreneur. I have become the inspirational quote guy many who I am the mentor for. I have used visual pix for years. Love them. Thanks for all you are doing. Love to meet you some day.—————Phil

  • http://www.thejoesweeney.com thejoesweeney

    Hi Phil. Welcome to the community! Do you blog? It’s hard to explain how nice it is to get a comment on a blog post. It makes my day when people leave comments, so just wanted to say thank you for leaving your first comment and I appreciate you reading my blog. I’m honored you find enough value in it to recommend it to your son. If there is anything I can do to help him out please let me know.

    Stay tuned to the blog as I may host events down the road, which I will post on the blog, but there’s nothing in the works at this time as I’ve got a number of other projects I’m currently working on.

    Wondering, what do you do with the dream notes? Do you keep them in a journal? I’d be curious to hear more on that if you’re cool sharing here otherwise you can email me at joe@jdscgroup.com.

    Keep dreaming big and thanks for the comment Phil!

    Best wishes,
    Joe

  • http://mo-network.org/ MG

    Joe,

    Are these SMART goals for traveling, and do you have a time frame in mind for each. I’m especially interested in time frame for the Cubs World Series win, hahaha.
    When it happens, I’ll be there with ya!

    Mike

    • http://www.thejoesweeney.com thejoesweeney

      YES I definitely have time frames for each of the goals but REALLY I appreciate the accountability and getting called out in the best sense of the word. Thank you for keeping me accountable. That said, I am actually revisiting the time frames for each trip today as blogging about them got me excited about taking the trips and I want to move up the travel dates.

      The only one I know for sure at this point is the Cubs will win the World Series in 2020 after 112 years of “rebuilding.” Think we can own the team by then?

      • http://mo-network.org/ MG

        Oh, man! I don’t know. MLB valuations are skyrocketing right now. We might need to get Larry Bird and Richard Branson on board.

  • Nika

    Hi Joe,

    Great post! Thank you for giving me some new prospective on life. Can you please share step-by-step how to create a vision board? What would be the best place to get photos of the places I dream about?

    Thank you,
    Nika

    • http://www.thejoesweeney.com thejoesweeney

      Hi Nika:

      A vision board can be whatever YOU want it to be.

      Here is a great 5 minute video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msuaSOQTuKM

      I would highly recommend Google’ing John Assaraf as he is one of the leaders in my mind when it comes to building vision boards.

      In the 5 minute video above he tells the story about explaining vision boards to his son and rather than explaining it to him, he opens a box and pulls out one of his old vision boards and there is a picture of the house they live in ON THE VISION BOARD!!!!!! Not a house “like” the house they live in but the actual house. He started to cry. Powerful stuff.

      There are no right and wrong ways to do it. When I mentioned a step-by-step guide, I meant to explain how to save the pictures on your computer and create a vision board as your screen saver. Is that what you’re asking? Not sure if that’s what you’re asking for but it sounded like you wanted to know how to make one, not how to save it to your computer. Please correct me if I misinterpreted your comment.

      Most vision boards are pictures of goals or things that signify happiness, success or any other emotion or feeling we want to create.

      Some ideas for vision board categories are: family, finances, career, health, fitness, personal goals, education, travel, and volunteer work/community involvement.

      You can cut and paste pictures or arrange them in any manner you see fit. I have a virtual vision board (pictures that alternate as the screen saver on my computer) as well as a vision board I cut out pictures from magazines. They are not identical so I’m hoping my subconscious mind doesn’t get confused =) ha ha

      Stylistically, I prefer to group them by category so all my relationship pictures are together and travel pictures are together….

      Depending on what goes on your dream board you can find pictures in industry magazines, take the pictures yourself, or use a search engine and find them online.

      Hope this helps. Thank you for commenting, readers and comments are the lifeline of this blog!!

  • Kathleen Larsen

    So this is a HUGE reminder that I need to pull out my bucket list and get moving on it! Woo hoo! I love goals, and while I am in the midst of a HUGE ONE (opening a youth center in my town) I do need some “fun” ones as well. Vacations are that. Thanks for the reminder! I’m pulling it out as soon as I finish typing this.
    And for what it’s worth, your #6 is the first thing I have ever disagreed with you on. Outerspace? You couldn’t pay ME 200K to do THAT one. Serioulsy. I am one big, fat chicken here. Have a blast (get it? ) though if you do it. And thanks for sharing as always!

  • Nika

    Hi Joe,
    All the above explanation is very helpful. Thank you. Specifically, I would like to know how to save the pictures on the computer computer and create a vision board as the screen saver.
    Thank you,
    Nika

    • http://www.thejoesweeney.com thejoesweeney

      Hi Nika:

      Here are the step-by-step directions for how I have created my “vision board” on my Mac computer.

      1. Go to file and from the drop down menu create “new folder”
      2. Double click the folder name with the option key pressed. This will highlight the text and allow you to rename the folder.
      3. Label the new folder “vision board”
      4. Select as many pictures and you want online from websites and save them to the file “vision board” (when you choose “where to save” always select “vision board” folder”)
      5. Under the Apple icon (upper left corner) select “system preferences” from the drop down menu
      6. Next click on “Desktop & Screen savers”
      7. Select “Desktop”
      8. Click the “+” character below the menu on the left hand column
      9. Select your folder titled “vision board”
      10. Below the box on the right column check the box titled “change picture”
      11. From the drop down menu select how often you would like the pictures to rotate (mine are on 5 seconds)
      12. Next select “Screen saver” from above the boxes (at the top of the screen)
      13. Where it says “start screen saver” Drag the icon all the way to the right edge of the timeline to “never”
      14. Continue to add and delete pictures to your “vision board” folder
      15. At least twice a day, spend 7-8 minutes looking at your desktop screen with your vision board pictures instead of playing around online.

      Hope this helps. If not, hopefully someone with a PC can weigh in and help you with those steps!!

  • Lisa Jade

    While I have no doubt that you will one day accomplish everything on this list, I think you should start off with China. Especially since you’ll have a free tour guide/ adventure partner at your disposal. Do it! No excuses! And we’ll both keep our fingers crossed for the Cubbies.
    Love, L

  • Sajana

    Hi Joe.. read yor article on what will youdo if you had $ 10 million , listened to Steve Jobs speech at the graduation and the song, Live like you were dying. Thank you…Don’t Stop Dreaming is what gave me a jump start. I would love to have the instructions how to make my vision board my screen saver. Waiting to see my dreams on my screen. Looking up for other articles .
    Warm Regards
    Sajana

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