Manage Your Dream - be the Bros...

I watch one of those 'home and garden' shows on cable, its the one about two brothers who help people choose their 'dream home' by picking a fixer upper and then rennovating. One brother is a real estate whiz, the other is the contractor and visionary who literally removes walls and completely turns lead into gold, like some modern day alchemist. But there's an important first step in this process! First, the couple looking for the dream is shown exactly what they want, they get visibly excited .. they cannot believe how easy this has all been. Then smiling, the brothers tell them that the couple with the 400K budget will need 1.5 million dollars to 'buy' their dream. Smiles turn upside down. They realize they will have to BUILD their dream, not buy it. Manage their dream. Is it not true with hobbies for most of us? It is for winning the stars. There are some who can go out and buy a 200K old commercial star projector. Nobody of course but an institution can buy a modern digital projection system - thats the 1.5 million dollar dream how ready to move in. Even the 200K old commercial fixer upper would require rennovations you'd need an expert 'brother' to do for you. But most of us ARE the bros .. we have to be both ... we have to buy what we can buy and build what we can build. So be the bros. Find a way to manage your dream. I did. I built a star projector, a theater, and I brought it in with MY skillset, MY budget. And doesnt that make sense, since it was MY dream?