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Dream No Small Dreams-If you’re committed to going out there and pursuing a dream, make sure the dream is worthy of your time and attention. Seek the game worth playing. If your current life doesn’t have a dream big enough to risk the game, then find one that does. Find a dream so juicy, so appealing, and so powerful that it compels you to work to reach it. It calls to you, sings to you, sinks its hooks into you and won’t let you go. What’s a dream that is so powerful that you will live part of your life for it?

In the next few chapters, we’re going to look at how to rediscover the dreams you’ve had and then supersize them in Maui fashion to create something even bigger and bolder. We believe that you were born to do something great, and now it’s time to rediscover exactly what that greatness is!

Dream Big!-Corporations pay thousands of dollars to work on articulating their company vision. The corporate vision generally isn’t just about making money. It’s about the deeper reasons why the business exists and the powerful passions that fuel the organization.

The same is true for us. You have a personal vision as well. Sadly most of us don’t bother to take the time and energy necessary to articulate our own vision — the dreams that make everything we do worthwhile. Without a dream to pursue, our spirit wilts and our soul shrinks.

Your big dream is your personal vision that taps into the passion you have in your life. Passion is the energy of your heart. It drives you to perform at the highest possible level. It gives you the fuel to keep going when others around you quit. Passion dares you to ask more, to do more, to be more. Passion allows you to make mistakes, get knocked down, and get up for another round. Passion is the limitless energy that allows you to achieve extraordinary results. It’s the juice that makes life so sweet.

What is so important to you that you would invest part of your life going after it without any direct reward or compensation, just because you felt so powerfully moved by that dream? That’s a first step in determining the dreams that aren’t just merely financial. If your most compelling desire right now is to create a certain amount of money or passive cash flow, ask yourself — why? Imagine you have all the money and financial success you’ve ever wanted, then what? When you achieve that level of wealth, what are you going to do with the money? Who is the person you dream of being? That’s how you can tap into the most compelling aspect to those dreams.

As a child, we had dreams. They were in the language of children because we were children. Then we put aside many of those childish dreams and “grew up.” Of course, growing up meant that we followed what the adults around us said being a grown up was. We gave up on the big dreams.

Instead, we started substituting goals for dreams. If you were raised in a typical American household, those goals had to do with success and money. They focused on the outer achievements, not on inner values and dreams. It’s pretty ironic that with the primary focus on those kind of achievements, more and more people find their wealth slipping away. Could it be that there is something fundamentally off with how the average person thinks about the future? Of course! And in this section of the book you’ll learn how to tap back into your real passion and purpose in life as you clarify your big dreams.

The big dreams of a Maui Millionaire are not always brand new dreams. You’re not reinventing dreams. You’re rediscovering the dreams of your childhood. Now, though, you’re doing it with the years of experience and education that allow you to use the language of adults, with the heart and faith of a child.