This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1238, Your Dreams Matter, Period.

By Britt with KFlanders.com and I'm Justin Mollick.

The guy who's been reading articles, book excerpts, essays, sometimes stories,

every day including holidays for over three years.

I'm going to keep this intro nice and short so let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.

Your Dreams Matter, Period.

By Britt with KFlanders.com.

The first time I truly interrogated the idea of abundance was when I was in graduate school in 2012.

At this point I had stumbled across tiny houses and the minimalist movement and it all made so much sense to me.

Maybe it was being saturated in a higher education environment that urged critical thinking,

but when I projected forward to what I thought my life would look like in 20 years,

it did not include the traditional markers of success.

But when you tell your family who generously help pay for a portion of your education

that you want to essentially abandon any call to a high-powered i.e. high-paying career

and want to build a tiny house, you can probably imagine what their reaction was like.

Of course a high-powered career in living in a tiny house are not mutually exclusive,

just look at the CEO of Zappos. But in my case, I knew I wanted one because I didn't want the other.

On the whole or on the surface at least, my family is supportive of my alternative lifestyle

aspirations. Sometimes those small comments here and there make me wonder if my dreams are good

enough. You'll get sick of each other in that smallest space. I don't think you realize how small it

will be. It's not going to be a good investment. Do you even have plans or designs for it?

My quick rebuttals to these comments are normally, no, we won't. Yes, I do. That's not why I want one.

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