Have you ever had the perfect opportunity to share your dream and got tongue tied (or talked waaaay too long) trying to explain it to someone you just met? Please tell me I’m not alone in this!!

IF YOU’VE STRUGGLED WITH WHAT TO SAY WHEN SOMEONE ASKS, “WHAT DO YOU DO?”, THIS IS THE EPISODE FOR YOU.

This month I wanted to delve into the topic of how we talk about our dreams because I think it’s an important step as you work to define what exactly you do or are passionate about. Because having clarity about your dream helps you make decisions about your steps and helps you share with others who might join you in the journey.

I’ve been working on the language of my God-shaped dream for probably two years now in a really intentional way. I tweak it all the time. It’s not perfect or finished—it might never be either of those things.

But a recent conversation with Esther Littlefield in her Confident Leader Catalyst program brought this back up for me. When I talk about my dream, people automatically assume that it is the podcast. But the podcast was never the end goal.

In our conversation, Esther used the word “vehicle” in talking about things like a podcast, a book or a blog, a nonprofit, or whatever it is you are compelled to produce or create. That thing is probably not the dream. That thing is just the vehicle by which we seek to fulfill the bigger dream – a dream that probably couldn’t be achieved overnight or in a few months or even over a few years.

Our dreams are bigger than us. In fact, our dreams, if they are from Him, are more like vision statements.

In this episode I talk about why you need to write a vision statement for your dream, how to do it and how I’m willing to help if you need it. This type of exercise has helped me so much in my dreaming process because it’s forced me to get really honest about the dream, my role in it, God’s role in it and how I want to speak it out in the world. And doing all that work has helped me to be more precise in defining what the dream actually is.

I hope and pray that this exercise (and yes, there’s homework with this one) will remove some roadblocks for you and help you, at a minimum, be able to speak about your dream with confidence the next time someone asks you, “So, what do you do?”

SPONSOR LOVE: Thanks to Faithful Counseling for sponsoring this episode