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Dream Big

What Did YOU Want To Be?

by Jason 12.04.2008 Dream Big

One of the questions that Kim and I almost always ask when we interview someone is, “When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?”
Sometimes the answer to that question is the best sound byte of the whole interview. It’s certainly always interesting, and it never ceases to amaze [...]

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Ginormously Fun Goals

by Kim 10.11.2008 Dream Big

Even in this “supersize it” culture, there’s something magically childlike about seeing the world’s largest pumpkin. Steve Connolly turned his hobby into a passion, setting a personal goal of growing the biggest pumpkin in the world!
How childlike is this?!
Apparently the conditions were “just right” this year in Sharon, Massachusetts, which helped to bring his record [...]

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Jump off the Conveyer Belt

by Kim 08.30.2008 Dream Big

We recently started back on the road for a fall filled with speaking gigs. One thing Jason talks about is to “Stop living by rules that don’t exist.” This is a major way to fight your Adultitis. Living by this philosophy is exactly what gives the typical two-year-old the bad rap as “terrible.” In defense [...]

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Tip of the Week: Daydream Believer

by Kim 07.21.2008 Dream Big

This week’s Escape Plan challenge (aka our Tip of the Week) is #6: Daydream Believer: Write down one big dream of yours. Draw or find a picture to go with it and put it somewhere you will see it often.
This is such a fun challenge! Who doesn’t like to dream about the future? It’s inevitably [...]

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How To Be An Action Hero

by Jason 05.14.2008 Dream Big

One of my blog posts recently received a very intriguing comment. It was loaded with interesting observations and great questions and I wanted to address them here.
As much as I love reading your website, and others like yours, I have realized that reading about it, and actually doing something about it is 2 different matter. [...]

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Tip of the Week: Future Forecast

by Kim 04.21.2008 Dream Big

This week’s Escape Plan challenge (aka our Tip of the Week) is #19: Future Forecast: Spend 10 minutes visioning yourself 10 years from now as having accomplished one of your biggest dreams. Be as detailed as possible; imagine in all five senses.
Every time Jason and I end up at a mall he makes a joke [...]

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Sixty-Six is the New Six

by Jason 04.04.2008 Dream Big

Here’s a great itty bitty post from Adultitis Antidote winner Rocks in My Dryer:
We were on our way home from an especially well-played soccer match. My son Joseph settled happily back in the seat and sighed.
“Mom,” he said. “I feel, deep in my heart, that I’m about to be famous.”
“Really? I asked. [...]

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Dreams Come True When Faith Takes Flight

by Jason 03.05.2008 Dream Big

I love my job. As I write this, I am several thousand feet in the air, sitting in first class on a jet, coming home from some speaking programs in New York. I’m in first class because Kim and I did so much traveling last year, we got bumped up to the next level of [...]

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