Sunday Sayings … ‘Impossible’ Dreams

This is the notebook cover designed by Mitch Bolton for the Dream Year Weekend I was at in Nashville. This picture doesn’t do justice to the notebook … it is one sharp notebook.

The producer of Dream Year, Ben Arment explains the cover … “The cover is JK Rowling’s handwritten storyline plots for Harry Potter, which is the perfect “demystification” of a great dream. All inspiration requires perspiration.”

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Ben is all about encouraging others to pursue their dreams … soak up the following quotes Ben had in the notebook about believing in your dream even when others don’t.

“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.” -Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962

“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” - Lord Kelvin, President, The Independent Scientific Academy of the UK, 1895

“Wasting her time. She’s too shy to put her best foot forward.” -Drama School that dismissed Lucille Ball.

“The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.” - Wester Union internal memo, 1876

“There is a world market for maybe five computers.” - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

“He is too stupid to learn anything. he should go into a field where he might succeed by the virtue of his pleasant personality.” - Thomas Edison’s teacher

“Lacked imagination and had no original ideas.” -The reason a newspaper gave for firing Walt Disney.

“You’re not good enough.” - Ben Arment’s first boss when he proposed the idea of producing a large multi-media event.

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Just as each of the first seven quotes was proven false with time … so was the last one. Ben can produce great multi-media events! Congrats Ben on some great productions so far … STORY 09, STORY 10 and Dream Year Nashville. I look forward to seeing what you produce in the future.

Those events are now all in the past … but there’s more happening. If you want motivation to pursue a dream you have or help in figuring out what your dream is … there is a Dream Year Weekend happening in June in Washington DC. I encourage you to consider attending it … info here.

You are unique and you are enough. You have as much value and potential as the next person … so think/process/pray and then dream impossible dreams. Why not? All the people in the above quotes did and they are/were just people like you.

Do you have dreams … that seem impossible?

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