Apr 9, 2019
Helping Your Kids to Dream I'm Mitch Matthews and welcome to DTD. Today we’re going to digging into a wildly important subject: How to inspire our kids to dream! Listen To The Podcast: Resources: Mitch’s Book: IGNITE Video Mitch did with his sons early on: A recent short film written, directed and produced by Ben and Alex: Transcription: I had a conversation with a DREAM THINK DO listener who had reached out and wanted to chat, wanted to connect. This morning we had an awesome conversation and, almost instantly, we just dropped into it because, hey, in the DREAM THINK DO family, we're in it together, and I could tell something was heavy on his heart, something that he wanted to dive into and, almost instantly, we went there, and that was ... He just let me know that he just ... He had three daughters, and it was just heavy on his heart to help them dream. There were so many layers to this conversation because I think, in some part, if we're being honest, he was a little concerned if he was modeling dreaming, getting cleared, going after your dreams. He'd actually attended a Big Dream gathering, one of our events that we do around the country, and it was a few years ago, and he was like, "Gosh, I don't know that I've been moving all that much forward on those dreams," and he was feeling bad about that, but then he was also struggling to find the language. He was like, "You know, sometimes, when I talk with my daughters about dreaming, it just doesn't seem to make sense. I'm not ... We're not talking the same language. They don't quite understand me." You could just tell he was just really torn up about it, and I get it, man. Being a dad is one of my absolute favorite things, but it's not easy. Being a parent is not easy, and if you've got kids, you know what I'm talking about. It's one of the best jobs on the planet, but it's not easy especially on this subject and, in some ways, it's just easier to avoid. It's easier to just stay busy, not talk about these things, just keep things status quo. Dreams can shake things up. It can move things around a little bit. It can upset the apple cart, as the kids are known to say. Actually, the kids never say that. My aunts and uncles say that. My grandma said, "Apples. Apple cart." Anyway, you're with me. It's not easy, but it's important, and so that's what we're going to talk about. The conversation was fantastic. I mean, we wound up having just this great conversation on the subject. I took some notes as we talked, and then I came back and I was going to do other things actually. I had a different episode lined up for this week, but I thought, "This is just too important." In fact, I opened this conversation up a little bit, too, and so I'm going to do some things here at the front end that I usually do at the back end. One is I want to invite into this conversation because I guarantee, we're going to do more conversations on this subject because it's so important, so I want to invite you. As you think through these things, I want to hear your tips, your strategies, maybe even your ... what you wrestle with, so hit me up, mitchmatthews.com/222, and leave a comment. What are some of those strategies you're doing or what are some of the things you wrestle with, or what's something that's worked for you and your kids? I want to hear from you about that because we're going to be doing more on this subject, and so, yeah, you guys are awesome and you guys are wise, and we're in this together, so I want to hear from you, so mitchmatthews.com/222. Leave your comments there. I also want to say maybe you don't have kids, maybe you're listening to this episode and you're like, "Check. Maybe not me," or maybe that you're just not feeling that right now. I just want to say that what's interesting is is that, as we start to talk about encouraging our kids to dream, and it could be your kids, it could be your own children,