Nathan Hangen

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Hooah!!

Dreams are great, been a dreamer all my life. But dreams will always be just that as long as we allow them to. Like movies, they're great the first time or two we see them, then the luster begins to fade. What we need to do is grab a dream or two and make it a reality… then dream some more.

Amen brother. That's the tricky 2nd step. But, I think that unless we really embrace a dream at an emotional level, then it's going to be tough to pull it off. What do you think? What does it take to make a dream a reality?

Good to see you Fi, how are you

Ooorah!

To make a dream a reality it takes an obsessive like focus and the making of tough decisions. This could mean less time with friends and some of the other joys of life.

I think this is where it often breaks down. In general, people won't take the tougher road, we'll settle for easy and what's generally accepted instead of becoming a maverick and adopting a to hell with it stance. We try to fit in too much.

It sounds corny but at some point we must ask, who's life is it anyhow?

Uh oh, just need the Navy and Air Force to chime in now

Do they even have a phrase?

Chuggin along

As long as you're chugging. Wait…you weren't talking about beer were you?

OLÉ!!

You do have a knack of telling me what I need to hear, you know that?

I worried that I was doing too much cheering and not enough talking. Yet, something about this topic compelled me and I had to write it.

I try to offer both practical advice and inspiration. I'm glad that it's what you needed.

Sometimes I think figuring out what you really want out of life in the first place (and giving yourself permission to change your mind) is harder than the “going for it” part. Thanks for the inspiration, man.

Agree 100%, especially when you're into so many things and want to take a step back. I'm in that place in a few areas, but trying to navigate cautiously. Isn't easy, that's for sure.

So much to do, and so little time. That being said, you still working on 52?

I have always been a dreamer, might be why I started my first business 15yrs ago at the ripe age of 23!

Since then I have had 6 more businesses, some did well while others failed, but I never stop dreaming…..

Just dinged 59 bro.

One of us is psychic. I was just thinking exactly the same thing Nathan.

I'm in. You can count on me. My dream is now an all out friggin mission! I just landed on the shore and burned the ship baby! I CAN'T turn back now.

For the first time in years, my wife told me (demanded) to stop letting other people tell me how to run my biz. And I'm thankful she did so.

I flushed out my RSS reader down to just three entries. Damn that felt good. All that reading was making me second guess everything I did over the last 4 months. Enough of that shit. I got more done in the last 3 days than I did in the last two months.

See you guys/gals at the top!

Damn dude, I need to put ChrisBrogan away and pull out the DK!

Hey Nathan, I've jumped into plenty of sandboxes, built some castles and sky dived off the top…sometimes crashing and burning but mostly achieving the short term aims. It's great fun…BUT….the problem I have is that I get tired of the castle quickly and in fact look at it with a very critical “So? So you built that, you hit some home runs, and the impact that has on the world is?”

Like remarkablogger said, figuring out what we REALLY want in the first place is the hard part.

Thanks for the inspiration.

Michelle
Still figuring out what the dream actually is.

The trouble is we spend the best part of our lives being “No” conditioned about our dreams. Parents, teachers and peers all tell us we can't do things and we start to accept it.

We once had a dream to live on a small island and spend lots of time in the Ocean. Way too many people told us we were crazy to even contemplate giving up great jobs and drag our young kids halfway across the world. I'm so happy we didn't listen.

Bringing it closer to home, most bloggers go through this when they start to think about trying to make a career out of it.

First you need to have the dream, then you need to insulate yourself from the people who will tell you that you can't or shouldn't do it, THEN you need to start to take action.

Now 60 and just got my flying mount.

Fan-friggin'-tastic post Nathan.

This world DOES need more dreamers, that's for sure. But if all the people are having is nightmares, how do they begin dreaming?

For some, it's easier to keep having the nightmare. They may not have the stomach for “dreaming”.

For some, the nightmares keep bugging them, so they eventually decide that the pain exceeds the proverbial pleasure, and the start to dream…but never break through into making those dreams a reality. Some of them eventually break through, but most are stifled by the outside influences you pointed out.

And finally, there are those that choose to quit having nightmares. They WILL NOT have a nightmare, because they have “seen the light” and realize the nightmare is worse than dreaming, even when dreaming SEEMS to be worse.

Great post Nathan.

Thanks man, Glad to see you back in action

My nightmare is realizing I'm 31 and not where I want to be. Every day is an attempt to fix that.

I know you're not much of a dreamer, but that's because you're already living a dream. I should have you record the video for the BBP from the beach…seriously…why aren't you doing that?

Thank you for being here!

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I can sense it man…that's why you, like me, have a zillion projects going on

Dude, I feel that same “nagging” feeling every day…it's a funny feeling…once you start living the dream.

I am actually working on a plan to trim down, and may unload HotBlogTips in the process (haven't gone public with that, so keep that in this private area please), I just don't feel like I can make a real business plan with it anymore, might just be that I don't have enough time though too.

Maybe I just don't feel the “fire” I did with it before….

Not sure, but if an offer came, I might entertain it.

This is the comment I emailed you about. If you can find it, feel free to bring it back. I edited (through Disqus) to add more and the whole thing disappeared.

I've kind of shied away from doing stuff like that on the grounds that I cringe when internet marketers start their videos with a shot of them getting out of their Ferraris!

I don't want to sell the dream that I spend my days here on the beach raking in cash when the reality is I work pretty damn hard, and get to the beach about once a week! But maybe the occasional video…..

I've kind of shied away from doing stuff like that on the grounds that I cringe when internet marketers start their videos with a shot of them getting out of their Ferraris!

I don't want to sell the dream that I spend my days here on the beach raking in cash when the reality is I work pretty damn hard, and get to the beach about once a week! But maybe the occasional video…..