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There’s been a cool thing that’s happened over the past couple years: chasing your dreams has become sexy. We’ve become people who aren’t content working 9-5 just to pay the bills. Instead, we want to feel like we’re making an impact. Or we want to actually make an impact. Millenials, for all their shortcomings, are a generation who would rather take less money and do what they believe in than make more by working a job they hate. And that’s awesome. What we tend to forget to talk about is the unsexy side of chasing your dreams. The times we get told no. The ways negative news tends to come all at once. The emotional roller coaster of the process. Last week I had a hard day. The reality of losing half my income in three weeks started to hit home and I got scared.
The biggest risk I’ve ever taken and 3 ways you can help
A crazy thing happens when you write about chasing your dreams: you end up remembering what they are. A few weeks ago I wrote about walking in the middle of the road to create space to dream. On the day I wrote that post, I had a thought pop in my head while walking the dog: What would it look like to be a freelance graphic designer working with churches and people to impact the world? By the time the dog and I got back to my house, I’d pushed the thought to the back of my head as a dream that could one day happen. Over the course of the weeks after that intial thought, the idea kept coming back over and over. For the last 20 months or so, I’ve had an uneasiness within me saying there was something more out there for me. I never could put…
It’s time to stop protecting your comfort and screw up your life
I’m writing this post on my couch with my feet propped up on the table in front of me. It’s cold outside but I’m comfortable because we were able to pay the gas bill. My dog is across the room taking a nap. There’s a Dr. Pepper next to me and music playing around me. My wife and I don’t have everything we want, but we definitely have everything we need. We haven’t gone on lavish vacations but we get to go home to see family this week. An unexpected payment to fix my car hit us last week but it’s not going to cripple us. By every definition I’m comfortable. As I read the Bible, I see dudes who were also comfortable. They had their normal life they’d spent years crafting and learning to love. They woke up, did their routine, hung out with the people they cared about,…