Secrets To Sticking With A Dream Hello and welcome to a very special episode of DREAM THINK DO. This is episode 200. That's right, we've hit 200 deep dives and interviews. Pretty crazy to think about. If this is your first DREAM THINK DO... welcome. I am so honored that you're here. And if it's your 200th... or somewhere in between… THANK YOU! Thank you so much for being a DREAM THINK DO-er. Thanks for being on this journey WITH me. I couldn't do it without you AND wouldn't want to do it without you! It makes this episode so much more special knowing that you're out there and a part of this. Listen To The Podcast: RESOURCES: Dream Job Redefined Book: Dream Job Redefined BIG Dream Gathering (www.bigdreamgathering.com) BIG Dream Gathering FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/bigdreamgathering/ SOLOCAST: With this episode, I do want to celebrate a little bit, but I also want to pull back the curtain and share some stories, some highs, and lows and some favorite memories. Plus, I also want to dig into something a little bit bigger. Something that’s important. Something that can help you as YOU go after your dreams and goals too. First… it's good to celebrate, and we're going to celebrate. With this particular episode, as we celebrate, as we remember, I also want to spend a little time digging into the subject of knowing when and when not to stick with something. Two hundred episodes, it means we stuck with it, but I can tell you, there are times where I really thought about quitting. I've been talking with a lot of people lately, and that just seems to be in the air. I'm not sure whether it's the season, I don't know what it is. But I've talked with people who are thinking about making career changes, whether it's shifting jobs, whether it's shifting positions within a company, or changing careers altogether. I've talked with people who were thinking about quitting. Quitting training programs, or quitting their degree, or quitting their advanced degree. I've talked with some people who were thinking about quitting a big dream, something they'd been working on for a while, and they're kind of in the messy middle, I call it. The honeymoon period that comes sometimes when you start a dream is over for them, and it’s the messy middle, the hard part of not quite sure whether it's going to work out, not quite sure they should keep going, and they're thinking about quitting. Here's the thing. I'll be the first one to tell you, sometimes it is right to quit, but we're going to dig into this concept of when you should quit and how you make that decision. If that's something that you've wrestled with, or maybe you're in the middle of it right now, we're going to spend some time on that together, because that's what we do. That's what we do. We move forward, we make things better. We truly dream bigger, think better, and do more, and we do it together. That's where we're going today. Sound good? Good. All right. All right, let's do this. So, 200 episodes, it's amazing. Still kind of boggles my mind. I can tell you my first goal was just 10 episodes, just get 10 episodes done. I liked it. But it was too early to tell whether it was going to be a benefit to people, whether people would appreciate it, enjoy it, use it, engage. But that was my first goal, just 10 episodes. I got those done even before we hit publish - before we went live on iTunes – and I found myself really enjoying the process, almost feeling selfish a little bit that I was enjoying it so much. But I thought, "Well, maybe, maybe we're on track." Then my next goal was 50, just 50 episodes. I told myself that at 50, if I was not enjoying it, if it seemed like it was more work than it was worth, if it didn't seem like people were really engaging, then I was just going to quietly put it up on a shelf, call it a success for getting 50 done, and just walk away. Then we hit 50. Actually, it's almost funny.