Stardate 05.15.2026
My accountability partner, Joni, and I have been keeping in touch about our dreams. She challenged me to read Dream Big by Bob Goff. After reading it, I reached out to Bob to tell him I had turned his book into a working manual for my own life. He calls himself the chief balloon inflator. I smiled when I read that. Some people inflate balloons. Others help people lift off the ground.
One idea from the book has stayed with me: God-sized dreams require calendar-sized actions.
Today, I have something on my calendar that makes me grin from ear to ear. My first shipment of extruded aluminum for the van build arrives.
A few days ago, I told my neighbor what was coming. She asked a simple question.
“Where’s the van?”
It’s not here yet. I don’t even own it.
Call me crazy. I’m dreaming the kind of dream Bob writes about.
I’m learning that dreams don’t begin when everything is lined up. They begin when you decide to move before everything is visible. The aluminum shows up before the van. The tools arrive before the workspace feels ready. The steps start before the whole staircase can be seen.
If you’re dreaming big, I hope you’re writing those dreams down. I hope you’re listing the obstacles you already know you’ll face. I hope you’re writing the names of people you can call when you need help. Getting it out of your head and onto paper does something steadying to the soul.
My dreams right now are made of extruded aluminum.
They’re made of YouTube videos where regular people build remarkable things in their driveways. They’re made of small tools, small steps, and quiet learning. I’m sharing these pieces with you as I learn how to fit them together like Legos, one connector at a time.
There will be a lot of baby steps between today and the day Lucy is finished. I already know I’ll make mistakes. I know I’ll put pieces together wrong. I know I’ll have to take things apart and try again. I also know I’ll get back up every time. I can already see the day when my wife and I take Lucy out for that first test drive, smiling like kids who built something with their own hands.
That picture is clear in my mind. Clear enough to guide today’s small step.
The last thing I want is to wake up four years from now and realize Lucy never happened. That thought has a way of waking me up early and moving me forward. So I’m starting now. I’m letting go of things that quietly waste time and drain energy. I have a plan. I’m following it.
“Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.” — Proverbs 16:3
Thank you, Joni, for walking beside me as an accountability partner. May you live long and prosper.
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Captain’s Addendum
Spock tilted his head. “Captain, it is illogical to receive construction materials before acquiring the vehicle.”
Bones folded his arms. “I’ve seen less strange things work out just fine. Let the man build.”
I smiled at both of them. Some days faith looks like aluminum on the driveway and a van still on the horizon.
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