Episode 421 – Airplane dreams

• Welcome back QFY friends
• If this week required a theme – I would call it a week of possibilities
  • In episode 419 we talked about doing the hard work
  • In episode 420 we tackled the common question of following our passions
• The word “possibilities” runs as a threat through both episodes –
• Possibilities add up when we do the work
• When we go out and explore our world
• When we experiment – we learn
• And the new knowledge helps us make better decisions
• So if you find yourself directionless,
  • Unclear about next steps
  • Confused about your path forward
  • Your purpose
  • Without a goal
  • Without motivation
• I hope – that after these last 2 episodes – you feel inspired to take some action
• Because action – even if unclear or directionless – is better than inaction
• Because it will lead to something
  • A lesson
  • An idea
  • An open door
  • Another person
  • Something
• I realized this week that flying is something that greatly inspires me
• Every time I am on a plane, and I am not to tired, I have some wonderful insights and I am highly productive
• I can read an entire book if I feel like it
• I write some of my best podcast episodes
• And sometimes, like this week, I write what could be called a poem
• I feel so stimulated and in the following poem you will see why
• I called this episode airplane dreams and realities because I dream, but at the same time these dreams can turn into realities
• Enjoy:

• Every time I fly I dream
• As I look out into the distance – mountain ranges, cotton clouds, blue sky, eternity –
  I am inspired
• And I dream
• It’s the same dream since when I first started flying – half a lifetime ago
• A dream that I never have when I am on the ground
• The sky – the suspension in free air
• The risk involved with flying
• The trust in a machine, in the universe, in God, to carry me
• This letting go of control sets my mind free
• My thoughts are without limits
• Those that always tell me I can’t do this or that
• When I fly – I dream of endless possibility
• That I can be anything
• And I see it
• I feel it
• And I believe it
• As I press my face against the tiny cabin window, I always smile
• I smile at the possibility this life has for me
• Despite the fact – every time I fly, there is a little less time left in my life
• Yet – every time I fly – I want to reach higher – do more, see more, be more,
• It’s as if my life was just beginning
• And at the same time standing still
• Allowing me to choose whomever I want it to be
• Everything I see and don’t see is far away
• Including the life I know
• Almost unreachable 
• And I am over it – all of it
• The possible and the impossible
• I see it all,
• Flying gives me a strange sense of perspective
• A distorted one
• Because I mix that which I know and familiar with the unknown, the dreams I have
• And I feel like a captain steering my own ship
  • Oceans, mountains, desert plains
• Where should we go
• Whom will we meet
• What will we do
• Infinite possibilities 
• All seem close – only waiting for me to pick one and play with it
• With the possibility of it

• Before my chosen life absorbs me
• Before I land
• Quick 
• A wish
• A decision
• Something I want to do differently
• Can do differently
• Write it down
• What do I dream about
• If I could choose it – right now, right here
  • Where would I go
  • Whom would I meet
  • What would I do
• What if I start doing something new tomorrow
• Just one thing
• Taking a piece of the endless possibilities down to earth with me
• Something that caught my eye in the infinity of the sky
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• Looking at the flight map in front of me is like looking at a computer game
• I am a small plane on the huge map called earth 
• A plane that slowly moves forward
• Just like our life
• I stare at the cities on this map
• They call on me – Pick me, come see me
  • Abu Dhabi
  • Istanbul
  • Jakarta
  • Berlin
  • Tokyo
  • Johannesburg 
  • Buenos Aires 
• Where should we go
• Whom should we see
• What should we do
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• Anything is possible
• When I fly
• And when I land
• I can start doing something new, something different
• What will it be?

• Allow yourself to be inspired my friends to take action
• You don’t have to be on the plane to be inspired
• What inspires you?
• A walk in nature?
• Then do that
• After I wrote these thoughts – something occurred to me:
• When I still lived in Texas, I didn’t fly often
• But once a year I usually came to California to visit my friend here
• And if you heard my story then you know that I wasn’t very happy in Texas
• I always dreamed of coming back to CA where my journey in this country first began
• Every time I was on my plane back to Texas – that’s what I did
• I dreamed
• I dreamed of the ocean, of palm trees, of San Francisco
• I dreamed of coming back here one day
• Now I am in California 
• Not because of magic
• But because I made it happen
• It took me quite a few years, mostly because I didn’t take any action for most of that time
• But when I did, it took only a few months
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• Possibility – my friends
• What could be possible if we just dream bigger ?
• Like I do when I am on the plane
• What if you dream a little bigger today?

Much love