Still Time to Dream

I hope you enjoyed the Wednesday exercises and took time to think about your dreams. If you didn’t, now is your chance. I will keep today’s post short and sweet so you can use the 5-10 minutes you would normally spend reading my post to start your list of dreams. And once that time is up, if you’re on a roll, then don’t stop! And if that time felt excruciatingly long and difficult to come up with dreams, then go back to the exercises and the posts I wrote about the mindset we need for dreaming. And keep your eyes peeled for dreams to reveal themselves.

For now, I want to help where I can and share my list of 100 dreams. Perhaps it will give you some ideas to steal whenever you get stuck creating the list. I did timestamp this list so you can see how long it took me to think of each batch of dreams and when I needed a break to think of more. I also made this list over the course of a few days. The first batch was Wednesday night. The second was Thursday morning. And the final batch I did Monday morning, primarily because over the weekend, I was not in a headspace to dream (if you wanted to see angry and sad Sarah, that was a good time to catch her).

1. Publish my book

2. Live in an 8,000-square-foot house

3. Buy a CR-V

4. Pay for my children’s college

5. Have Luxa

6. Meet Hugh Laurie

7. Travel to New Zealand with the Alliance

8. Help my parents become Integrity Partners

9. Travel to Ireland with my family

10. Travel to Aruba with my family

11. Take my kids to Atlantis

12. Meet Gordon Ramsey

13. Eat on Hell’s Kitchen

14. Get stationed at Hill AFB

15. Move to North Carolina

16. Go on a speaking tour

17. Fund a giraffe sanctuary at a zoo

18. Write a children’s book

19. Publish a children’s book

20. Get a literary agent
    
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21. Have a soaking tub in my house

22. Have a greenhouse

23. Travel to Italy

24. Travel to Greece

25. Reach Platinum status with American Airlines

26. Buy a Maybach

27. Travel to Thailand

28. Stay at Giraffe Manor in Kenya

29. See James Acaster live

30. See Bert Kreicher live

31. Be invited to a charity banquet

32. Learn how to make excellent gluten-free Challah

33. Go back to Hawaii

34. Visit all 50 states

35. Meet Sheila Wray Gregoire

36. Have a she-shed style office space

37. Speak in front of 1,000 people

38. Be approached by a stranger who read my book

39. Be debt free

40. Buy a criminal minds style plane

41. Foster infants

42. Create a dream fund to act as an angel investor in other people’s dreams

43. Buy a hot tub

44. Be the house my children’s friends want to hang out at

45. Have 1,000 followers on Instagram

46. Learn Hebrew

47. Have a Christmas tree farm

48. Help Jacob start a composting business

49. Live within walking distance of a pool

50. Have comforters for every holiday (that is important to me!)

51. See Michael take his first steps

52. Travel to Canada

53. Speak internationally

54. Be invited to speak at an Alliance conference

55. Be a fantastic matron of honor in Emily’s wedding

    
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56. Go on an international girl’s trip

57. Hire a superstar agent for my parent’s team

58. Travel internationally with Michael before he is 5

59. Make a six-figure income on my own pen

60. Have 1,000 Instagram followers

61. Have 500 total users on my blog

62. See the Eiffel Tower

63. Ride the London Eye

64. Have a carousel in my backyard

65. Stay in an overwater bungalow

66. Create and sell merch for my blog

67. Have a collection of Monopoly games

68. Have a front porch swing at my house

69. Help spouses thrive through deployments and TDYs

70. Stay in Cinderella’s castle

71. Shop at the Dubai mall

72. Watch my children get married

73. Be on a TV show

74. Go zip-lining in Costa Rica

75. Visit six continents

76. Vacation in Fiji

77. Travel with Jacob to Japan

78. Visit a zoo in every state

79. Go on an Alaskan cruise

80. Be a guest on the Bare Marriage podcast

81. Visit Israel

82. Visit Egypt

83. Travel to Poland

84. Write on the walls of every house we own

85. Spend the night in a fancy train cabin

86. Buy a place in the mountains

87. Have a vacation home

88. Have a house with a sunroom

89. Vacation in Australia

90. Travel with Jacob to New Zealand

91. Sell a painting

92. Redo my seasonal paintings for my mom

93. Learn to refinish and flip furniture

94. Heal my thyroid

95. See Michelle Wolf perform

96. Visit Switzerland

97. See all the Hawaiian Islands

98. Have a private dinner prepared by a Michelin Star Chef

99. See my grandchildren in outfits that Michael and Luxa wore

100. Create a Dream Manager program for military bases to execute
     
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• -Sarah Hartley