Unconventional Wisdom: Three Surprising Strategies to Dreaming Big and Achieving the Impossible
Surprising Strategy #1
Something that many people find surprising about me is that I grew up in a small town and rarely traveled except on road trips. They look at my life now: I live in a city and have been traveling the world for 20 years, and they think I must have grown up like that.
So, before I continue, I want you to take a piece of paper and write down this sentence, “Something that many people find surprising about me is that…(blank)” and fill in the blank. We will return to that statement at the end of the post, and I’ll show you what to do with that information.
It’s natural to think that someone’s past informs their future. What they’ve experienced first-hand often influences what a person wants or believes is possible for their life.
Surprising Strategy #2
But there’s an element of personality involved too. For example, as a little girl, I often played house with my besties. One of my friends had a big open attic, and we loved playing up there.
But when we played house, I always chose an apartment. It’s so funny to think back on. While the other girls imagined their big houses, big families, or husbands, I envisioned…
