Dreaming…

To honor my first “official” Jewish high holidays… I decided to take up the challenge issued by Jewish Living Magazine and keep a journal during Elul-the weeks leading up to the high holidays.

To help me come up with topics — I’ve subscribed to a daily email called the Jewels of Elul.

The topic for today missive is dreams… Alan Dershowitz shares how his dream is to do good and do well by his family. Those have been my goals too. Depending upon where I am with my business– my goals lean more toward doing well or toward doing good.

But lately, I’ve decided to think bigger on the money front to leave a legacy for Suzanne.  Recently, I went to a convention for my side business.  I was amazed at people’s goals– they were easily 10 x my goals.  Then, I thought to myself — why not dream big.  There is no limit to how much to can shoot for and shooting for the BIG target will make you much more likely to hit the smaller targets along the way.

Today’s goal, got me to thinking about how I can also be thinking bigger on the Tikkun Olam front, on the community building front.  What can I start doing now that will leave a very strong legacy for Suzanne.  How can I be a “go to” person when something in my community needs to happen?   I guess it all starts with the dream…