Episode 205: TMBA 205 – Dreamline 3.0 – A Simple Approach to Getting What You Want in Life
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2013
⏱️ 20 minutes
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http://www.tropicalmba.com/dreamlines/ http://www.tropicalmba.com/dreamlines/ On Thursday mornings at 8AM EST, we publish the Tropical MBA Podcast (iTunes link). After recording this episode it occurred to me that the moment I became an entrepreneur had nothing to do with sales, product development, or legal structures. I became an entrepreneur the day I sat down and defined precisely what it...
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| 0:00.0 | The day that I identify is the day that I started my business, the day that I became an |
| 0:07.5 | entrepreneur. It wasn't the day that we made our first sale and it wasn't the day that we |
| 0:11.7 | incorporated our business. It was the day that I wrote my first dream line. And that's |
| 0:18.0 | what this episode is all about today. In 2007, when Ian and I decided that we |
| 0:22.8 | were going to start a business, what we actually did was we got together and we wrote out exactly |
| 0:28.6 | what we wanted in our lives. Since that time, we've circled back to have a few more of these |
| 0:35.2 | summits and have realized that they're just as valuable to us now as they |
| 0:39.8 | were that first day when we decided to be entrepreneurs. |
| 0:43.2 | So why don't we kick some things off with some random Dave Chappelle samples? |
| 0:48.3 | Why not? |
| 0:49.3 | Because it's ball up, all the ball up all the... Good news boss man, we rank number one on Google for Paul up. Paul up. Paul up. |
| 0:56.1 | Good news, boss, man. |
| 1:00.5 | We rank number one on Google for Tropical NBA podcasts with Dan and Ian. |
| 1:02.7 | Wow, you're really doing good work these days. |
| 1:03.5 | Thanks, man. |
| 1:04.7 | Thanks for that. |
| 1:17.6 | The premise of the dream line is that if you never allow yourself your dreams, it's really easy to throw those things away. |
| 1:19.1 | I didn't know that you could write out what you wanted or have your cake and eat it to. |
| 1:26.2 | PostScript, if you work your tail off for the next five years for it |
| 1:29.0 | yeah so in 2007 we sat down and we wrote out our dream lines we're going to explain how to do that now |
| 1:34.3 | yeah the craziest thing is that when we look back at these things we actually accomplished almost |
| 1:39.4 | everything now you didn't start a mariachi band but i didn't start a mariachi band i sent you my 2009 dreamline just the other day, and I was nervous when I opened it up because I thought, I really hope that I accomplished everything I put on here because I haven't looked at it recently. Obviously, this was 2009, but I wanted to make sure everything was done, and it wasn't too embarrassing for it. Incredible. So we're going to do a quick tutorial and walk people through exactly how and why these things work. Plus, at the blog this week, we're going to have examples of how we do it. All right. So first, before we get into the nitty-gritty Ian, hat tip to Tim Ferriss for developing the concept of the dream line, at least in the way in which we see it, and also to Gerald, |
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