CHAPTER EIGHT

GOING IN THROUGH THE ROOF

Week 8

Imagine that you’re standing in front of a beautiful building. Inside lives your Dream. It’s alive and thriving and reaching toward the future, but there’s a problem: there are certain credentials and experience required for access, and you don’t have them. So you’re caught in a paradox: you can’t get access unless you have experience, but you can’t gain the experience until you get in.

That’s how I felt 15 years ago when I started this Dream journey. I remember using the building analogy in a conversation with my girlfriend, Angianein Wallace, the young lady I met during the Magic Trade Show in Las Vegas who went on to become one of my biggest Dream Champions. I told her, “I want to get in that ...

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