today...
Friday, 20 February 2009
My day job vs My Passion
We grow by dreams. All big individuals are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day, or in the red fire on a long winter's evening. Some of us let those great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nourish them through bad days until they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. ~ Woodrow Wilson
A few weeks ago, we had a vision sharing day where we heard the vision of a few of my cell members. At that point in time, I shared another vision that I had which was for the short term and when FT shared about her dream of opening her own cafe store, it brought back memories of what my ultimate dream would be.
Actually, I've had many "dreams" over the past few years. My first dream was when I was 15. I wanted to own my own resort/hotel - yeap, the WHOLE thing. Pfft, yeah right! Not going to happen. I think at the time I couldn't conceptualise how much it would actually cost if I didn't have the capital to begin with. haha. But that dream died within 5 years when I discovered that hospitality wasn't for me. My next dream was to become an Events Planner or perhaps, if I dare say, open an Events Management Company. That would have been around 2006... until now, when I realise that I don't want to be doing events for the rest of my life. Despite being told I'm meticulously organised - which if you look at my desk at work - it tells another story - but events in general is just too stressing and will probably give me high blood pressure in the long term because I know I'm too much of a nazi when it comes to events.
A dream that I've always had in the back of my mind is to be financially secure and have a property portfolio rich enough to continue buying run-down houses and properties and spruce them up like they do in better homes and gardens and then sell them for mega bucks! It'd be like going on-site to your mini project everyday and I think that's exciting! You work at your own pace, wake up whenever you want (which is the most important thing) - and clock off at whatever time you want. You can continuously teach yourself how to make and do things and continuously learn new design trends, technology and sustainablity stuff to make the world a greener place! And everyone knows I love green. (oh by the way - I got a free green smiggle pencil case from O-day! w00t)
Now, to get this dream rolling down the green hills, all I need to do is buy a darned piece of land... or house...
today...
@9:31 pm
bye bye~