So what’s the lesson I want you to take away from the International Builders Show?The lesson is:There is so much out there. The world is bursting with brilliant, beautiful, unique ideas. But you’re not going to find the extraordinary just sitting on a shelf in ordinary places. Treasures are usually hidden. To find a buried treasure there are maps that need following and digging to be done … but you can.As it is with your home, so it is with your life.It doesn’t cost you anything to think big thoughts and dream big dreams. Nothing good ever came of dismissing your true desires. You don’t necessarily have to act on them, but hear them out. Certainly don’t dismiss them just because they may be inconvenient. Extraordinary is never convenient.Don’t settle. Do the work.When my father was teaching me to shoot he used the old adage, “Aim small. Miss small.”It means that hitting a target dead center is difficult. Failure is likely. So aim as tightly as you can on the the most specific target possible, and when you do miss it, it’s likely still a pretty good shot. Aim small. Miss small.And when you fail, don’t stop. Do all you can to learn from failure, but don’t let it stop you from taking the next shot. Otherwise what’s the point of learning? Taking the next shot is the point.Doing something out of the ordinary, something extraordinary, something out of the box, is unusual because climbing out of the box takes work. But if you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.As T. S. Elliot once put it, “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”As the Great One, Wayne Gretzky once put it, “100 percent of the shots you don’t take, don’t go in.”Risk is unavoidable. Failures are certain. But if you don’t risk making your own mistakes you’ll spend your life taking orders from someone who does.I’m here today to encourage you to not simply accept what’s been handed to you but to design the life you really want. Dream the dream. Do the work. Aim for something extraordinary. Take the risk. Things will not end up exactly as you imagined. Things never do. But if you try, take the risk, dare to fail, things always end up more extraordinary than if you never set sail at all.A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.So set sail. Aim small. Miss small. Fail forward. Then pick yourself up and get right back to building yourself a beautiful life.