Strange title for a Saturday!  A day when most of us turn our attention to other matters; putting business and professional life on the back burner.

But the weekend is a great time to find a few rare moments to reflect on our vision - our goals. 

“How big is your dream?”  Is it large enough to s-t-r-e-t-c-h you beyond where you are at this very moment?  Will it take you to lands unknown?  Will it more than fulfill all those unfulfilled passions you’ve been ‘courting’ for some time?

You may think what you are about in these days is adequate.  You may want to shout at me when you read this telling me your dream is overwhelming!

But the truth is, most of us scale our dreams down to the size we want them to be - not where they need to be.  Our human tendency is to fail to “dream the impossible dream”.  We see what we desire to do; think it humanly impossible and distill the “impossible dream” to something we believe we can make happen.  Problem is - that doesn’t stretch us at all!

We are made for “impossible dreams”.  We are made to accomplish far more than the ‘puny’ vision we have set out to achieve.  And then wonder why our heart still longs for more!

I recently shared with a small group of women that my vision for AWP and AWItm is 270,000 women members - worldwide - at the end of 8 to 10 years!  Sound impossible?  Maybe.

But if the ‘bar’ isn’t high enough, we’ll never learn to leap higher & higher.  When I look at where we are TODAY in relation to the visionary goal; I tremble.  I think “Fitzgerald, that’s crazy!”  After all, I’m much more ‘chronologically maturing’ than most, so what makes me think. . . .

What makes me think it’s crazy is my human estimate of what’s possible - or probable!

But the thing that keeps me headed in the right direction - toward what appears to be an improbable goal, is that Quixote “dreamed the impossible dream” - and it happened.  He refused to accept the assessment of those around him who said “it can’t be done!”  It mattered not to him that others thought he was ”tilting at windmills” or just plain crazy.  Eventually, folks came to believe the same “impossible dream” Quixote had and joined him in the task.

When you take a moment of respite from Saturday’s chores; look long and hard at your ‘dream’!  Then add something to it.  Make it BIGGER than you can ever possibly imagine - in your wildest dreams - and set it before you.  It may make you quake & quiver; but it will draw you to it in a way you never thought possible. 

It will cause you to create the energy - in yourself and others - to start movement in its direction. 

And so what if you miss it by a fraction or so?  The amazing thing is that you won’t be caught settling for puny results.  You’ll be far ahead of where you thought you might land before you measured the dream and said. . . .

“It’s not big enough!”

Have an awesome Saturday building impossible dreams and accomplishing insurmountable odds!

Linda, a fellow journeyer