Dream Chasers Show
Welcome to the Dream Chasers Show!
We are a faith-based podcast geared toward helping people discover their purpose and attain their dreams.
That's right! You were created for a purpose, but it only reveals itself once you have the COURAGE to look for it and unwavering FAITH to chase it.
In this show, we'll give you the tools and strategies for becoming the BEST version of yourself, so you can overcome life's challenges while navigating towards your purpose. You can expect to hear about topics like:
- Defining Your Purpose
- Creating a Vision for Your Life
- Setting & Achieving Goals
- Acquiring Wealth
- Improving Health
- Managing Time
- Building Relationships
- Exploring Faith
- Mastering Fear, Doubt, and Worry
- And much more!
You were created for a purpose. Let's find it together.
Dream Chasers Show
Stop Waiting to Define and Achieve Your DREAMS
Are you ready to unearth some hidden keys to achieving your goals?
This soul-stirring conversation promises to guide you through the importance of having a life goal that goes beyond the allure of materialistic pursuits, emphasizing how self-assessment and personal accountability play a pivotal role in this journey. We share from our personal experiences, discussing how our objectives evolve with time, and how easy it can be to be derailed by fleeting desires.
In a deep dive into the world of work relationships, we highlight the significance of self-discipline and setting the right priorities. We also explore the power of understanding your values, strengths, and weaknesses, and using them to your advantage rather than emulating others. Lastly, we ponder over the fleeting nature of life and how it should inspire us to continually evaluate our direction and purpose, making necessary changes, and seizing every moment.
Tune in, and take a step towards living a more purposeful life!
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The more digging that I did within myself, I realized that it's not this title that I'm achieving, for it's like the inner character of who God created me to be, and that takes some work, because it also takes a lot of self-assessment too and holding yourself accountable. It's who you are as a person and who you want to be.
Speaker 2:Our time here on earth is rented, it's borrowed. It's not forever. You've got a limited time to do the thing that you want to do. So unless you're waking up every day, moving than Mark just an inch forward. It doesn't have to be every day You're doing some crazy, but just move it an inch at a time. Every day, you should be doing something towards your purpose making yourself better, making people smile, being a good human, because we're not given tomorrow. This is the Dream Chaser Show. What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the Dream Chaser Show, and I'm your host, eric, and I've got my lovely assistant wife here with me.
Speaker 1:Thank, you, that's me. I'm Kate Brandy.
Speaker 2:Point yeah. So if you guys are new to the show and never seen us or have no clue who we are, we're Eric and Kate Hydrick, husband and wife duo. We've done a lot of cool things and right now we're on kind of the adventure of our life really.
Speaker 1:Which is life.
Speaker 2:Which is life.
Speaker 2:And now we're on an RV and we're traveling around and it's awesome, but the whole purpose of our show is to help give back to people, help people chase their dreams, because that's ultimately what we're doing, and I know it sounds cliche, but it's one of those things that I think needs to be dissected a little bit more, instead of, hey, just chase your dream and do whatever it is that you love doing, because there's actual keys and strategies and there's also a lot of hurdles and downfalls to doing that too. So that's what this whole show is about, and I'm excited to bring it to you guys today.
Speaker 1:We got a fun one, so we also talk about big things like big topics, big questions, big discussions, which is really fun In a small RV.
Speaker 2:Big things, small living.
Speaker 1:So Eric came up with five questions that we want to discuss and we wrote down our answers individually, and here we're coming together.
Speaker 2:Correction, you wrote your answers down.
Speaker 1:Eric didn't come in.
Speaker 2:You guys should see it, because I made up these questions for her and I'm like, hey, go into depth, write down like really dig deep, because we're going to make this a killer podcast episode tomorrow and I want to like dissect, like deep dive, and so she has all this. I love you.
Speaker 1:Eric didn't do his homework, yeah well.
Speaker 2:I mentally did it. So but no, this is a fun one. I'm really excited to go through it, and the title of it is Don't Wait to Live your Life. And the very first question I'm going to actually have you answer this and then I'll jump in.
Speaker 1:Oh, the pressure is on.
Speaker 2:Press the heats on. Were you the one that took?
Speaker 1:notes and actually did the assignment. Yeah, you're a studious. I was an F student. Oh, were you All the way? I was an A student, yeah.
Speaker 2:But yeah, this is gonna be weird.
Speaker 1:This will be weird.
Speaker 2:It'll be fun, be a good dynamic, all right. So, kate, here's the question how important is it to have a goal or a major purpose in life?
Speaker 1:I said that I think it's pretty crucial to have a goal or a purpose, because what else would we be living for, Like, if we're just aimlessly going about working towards nothing that's. I mean it's kind of sad, isn't it? If you really think about it.
Speaker 2:It's weird to me because I feel like I guess this is my own personal thought is we kind of ebb and flow as people like one season we're real excited and motivated. Let's just use college, for example, right Starting college.
Speaker 2:You're like for those of you that have gone to college. You're so excited to start. You're like, oh, I can't wait to get my veterinary degree. And then you, and then you start and you're like, yes, my first class. Well, my first week, my first month. Well, my first semester is over. Oh, the second semester. And then it starts to like, this grind starts to wear you down. If college, if you've never been to college, we'll use another one, starting a new job, exciting right away. Right, it's usually so exciting and you're in your, everything's new and fresh. And then a few weeks go by and a few months go by, maybe your boss talks to you and, you know, reprimands you for the first time. That grind starts to wear us down and then, all of a sudden, we find ourselves like dreading the goal that we had.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think it's easy to get sidetracked too, like looking at that goal too, but then like, oh, shiny object over here.
Speaker 1:Oh totally Like I do that a lot. Yeah, I think that it also changes from time to time too, which I think is great, because I feel like we're never meant to stop growing as human beings, and not like physically, but like spiritually, emotionally, that we just never stop growing. So I think that our dreams change too, our dreams and ambitions and our goals. So I think it's important to always assess them like what your life goal is, how it always changes.
Speaker 1:For me, that's always. It's never like a destination or like a certain monetary thing of which at first it started out that way, but then I-.
Speaker 2:Like you wanted a certain amount of money. Yeah, money was what drove you.
Speaker 1:Yep, and I wanted to do. I wanted to be that somebody you know, I wanted to be a real estate agent or broker or whatever it was.
Speaker 1:When I was a kid it was a veterinarian, but yeah. But then the more digging that I did within myself, I realized that it's not this title that I'm achieving, for it's like the inner character of who God created me to be and that's kind of and that takes some work, because it also takes a lot of self-assessment too and holding yourself accountable to who you are as a person and who you want to be.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think.
Speaker 2:I think, okay, money is obviously important, yeah, but what I've started to look at money as instead of a means to, instead of like that, it's everything. It's more of a means to an end, and what I mean by that is you need it for stuff and money kind of is freedom. It allows you to have some freedom, have some time off, eat healthy.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Have a rich lifestyle. In that I mean like rich relationships. It's hard to be happy and have rich relationships when you're constantly stressed and you're constantly worried about money and you're constantly thinking about it or you've got piled up debt. It's so hard to be happy because you're just so pressed down with this weight. So money is more or less like a tool to be free. So I love what you said about how it started out as money, because if we're being totally honest which we need to be that's a huge driver. That's a massive motivator. That's why people get jobs, for the most part, to pay bills. But I think what we were blessed with correct me if I'm wrong was we had a little bit of success in our real estate career and we did pretty well and we basically got more money than we ever thought we would get.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And we bought all the stupid things.
Speaker 2:Yeah. The boats, the four-wheelers, the campers, whatever it was Flying off boat tubing, like all that fun party stuff it was, but what we found was it was never enough.
Speaker 1:Yeah, even that wasn't satisfying.
Speaker 2:Even that wasn't satisfying. It was like you're always looking for the next thing, Like, okay, what now? What can I buy? I got the boat. No, I need tubes for the boat.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I can get whatever skis for the boat. Oh wow, you know what I'm done with the boat. I want a Jeep and that stuff is fulfilling momentarily, but not long term.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So it's like you really have to start to do some intrinsic deep diving of yourself. Like what is it that's going to actually push me? Because money might motivate you and push you right away, but it won't long term. It definitely won't long term.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's a fleeting thing, like it will always run from you.
Speaker 2:Oh, for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's crazy. The more that you chase it, the more the faster it runs. Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. And I think that's where a lot of, like our discovery came into play, like when we achieved the goals that we wanted to, which was great, but they were monetary goals and then we kind of got there and we're like now what you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, now what?
Speaker 1:now what? So yeah all right, so let's jump into the next question what effect does self-discipline or lack of self-discipline have in achieving that purpose or goal?
Speaker 2:hmm Well, I can tell you right out of the gate, when we first, like, started our career in real estate or whatever it was, we didn't have much self-discipline. It was kind of like a grind. It was just like a grind and go.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's why we got into real estate be your own boss.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hours, yeah it was like I just want to be free and not have any Any like tie-down to self-discipline. I just want to, you know, do my own thing, yep, which which which, by the way, I don't think we as a fault. I think it's like human nature to kind of detest having a boss, an authority figure over you. It's like human nature, you, you want to be free, free started with Adam and Eve.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we want to be free. Right, you detest it. You're like they fought him and like, no, I'm gonna eat this apple dang it, we screwed up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I realize that we're naked and the rest of the world is condemned and sin.
Speaker 2:But there was consequences to that action, that there was consequences to the layer, their lack of self-discipline. Yes, and I think that's what we found out pretty quickly Was was when there's no self-discipline, when when Okay, especially, and if you're starting the business right, you are the only one holding yourself accountable. If you don't wake up, you don't make money. If you don't wake up on time, you don't get to the office on time, you don't make your calls, you don't sell whatever good it is that you're selling, you're just kicking yourself. And that's where the majority, 99% of the entrepreneurs fail is because they don't have that self-discipline. So that I mean, it's crazy important, and I think the best thing that we ever did was make a calendar on our phone is like a Google calendar. It's free, and then it's got time blocks and we just started plugging in there. You know, this is what I'm getting up, this is what I mean breakfast. This is when I'm Kate's laughing at me over here because I don't follow it.
Speaker 1:Eric, tell us yourself disciplines about waking up early, every day, consistently.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know, I know you're so true.
Speaker 1:That's right room for improvement. You know you can't be perfect, because then you've got nowhere to go.
Speaker 2:So really, you're saving yourself. Okay to tag on to that. I think we find ourselves looking for Something that we really value the most. All right, so what I mean by that is I like to work out, and I've made that a priority in my life. Yeah, so my self-discipline on working out is like I don't miss a day?
Speaker 1:No, he does not, folks, he does not miss a single day.
Speaker 2:But if you, if you say okay, I'm gonna start waking up at 5 am Every day. Well, I might do that for one or two days, and then it's 5, 15 minutes, 5, 30 and eventually it's 6 30 right, but it's not a huge priority. So it's like you almost have to really dig deep and say what is it that I actually want? Like you have your priorities and they're vastly different from mine.
Speaker 2:Yeah and I think, as a, as a, as a team, if you will, or husband and wife, it's okay to have different priorities, you know. Would you agree with my analysis on self-discipline?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay totally.
Speaker 1:I just like to give you a hard time, because, yeah, you preached that for a long time of get, especially in the real estate days, too, in which you are better at that. Yeah, I was, I was yeah, but now not so much. Well, today was 6 am, but yeah, I guess the point I'm trying to make is that our work hours are different too, though, like a lot of times you're working into like 10 11 o'clock at night right?
Speaker 2:So yeah, and you're, you're sleeping by 8.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know passed on the couch by 7, right. Yeah, exactly, simply tired guys. I'm not. I'm not boosting it up every night. Yes, she is I think.
Speaker 2:I think that's another good point, though, where it's like your priorities may be different from your spouses, but to have a similar like goal, similar long-term aim is Is important, but but it might look differently. It's gonna look a little bit different. Shouldn't look exactly the same as your spouse, or not the same people? Yeah, exactly, yeah, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I feel like a when we first started working together to realizing that our strengths and weaknesses actually played off of each other and Did well like in contrast to one another, rather than trying to fix you and make you exactly like me, which was yeah not fun and impossible, dare I say. Our breakthroughs happened when we realized that our differences were actually our strengths. Oh yeah, rather than our weaknesses for sure.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm I. And then we started really synergizing, like that's when we really like our relationship was happier because we're not always on each other about you don't do this and you need to do that, and oh yeah, and you need to be more like me, and why don't you think this way and do it that way, and yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that made me think of this too, where, like knowing your strengths and your weaknesses, and my strengths and my weaknesses like a business, you don't need two people in the driver's seat, you don't need to have the exact same strengths and you don't need two marketers. That that's all they're good at, but then they both suck at sales.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Right. How much more powerful would you be if one person's really good at marketing but sucks at sales? But the other person's really good at sales but sucks at marketing? Well, you put them in their seat, you put them in their place and then they synergize the marketer does their job, the salesperson does their job and they both succeed, versus two marketers do really great but everyone sucks at sales. You'll get nowhere. So the strength and weaknesses I mean, they just. They just work when you can figure out what it is that you're good at.
Speaker 1:I was just about to say is it okay to change our plans along the way? So say, if you're like dead set on this life goal of doing, or being, or having this thing, and then you know, you know, yeah, a side turn, a bend in the road.
Speaker 2:Are you asking me?
Speaker 1:I think so.
Speaker 2:Yeah, is it okay to make, is it okay to change our plans along the way?
Speaker 1:Absolutely freaking lute I sure hope, so we've made a couple changes, yeah absolutely freaking lute.
Speaker 2:You know, I think, what we struggle with this because we make changes quite often. However, how important is it to to do that? Because I always make this analogy, like, let's say, let's say you're working towards something, right? I picture a field, field of tall grass, and you can barely see over the grass. It's like eye height, right? So put yourselves in this field with me. It's grass, it's eye height, you can barely see it over it, but you know where you're headed is this you're trying to get to this stream because you need water and there and there's clay on that stream so you can build a brick house or whatever, okay, but all you can see right now is grass, primarily. And so you stick your head down and you just start and you're just cutting grass, just cutting grass, swinging your axe or what your swath, or sickle.
Speaker 2:Thank you, sickle swinging and if all you do is cut grass and cut grass and get up and grind every day and go to do the same thing every day and you just keep hammering, hammering, hammering and you never look up to see where you're going to to sickling, sickling, sickling, not hammering and you never look up to change course.
Speaker 2:And all of a sudden you look up and you're like whoa, I was trying to go north where the water was. But now I'm headed east and I'm heading straight to the desert. But you didn't look up, you never, you never took time to assess your direction in life and you end up somewhere you didn't mean to go. So is it okay to change course, change plans? Absolutely I mean you have to. You got to look up and say, or. Or you, you got to the water and now you're not really satisfied with them. Maybe it wasn't what you thought it was. You got to that job, you got that amount of money you got, you finally made it to that position in your career and you're like man, this is not what I wanted. Or or or now, what now?
Speaker 1:what now that I did this and you know, built up this lifelong dream and maybe it took you an entire lifetime to finally get there. And then, yeah, now you're like now what that's not. I think that's why a lot of retirees like we are all working towards retirement, but a lot of retirees go back to work because it's not what they thought that it was yeah, oh, so true.
Speaker 2:I feel like, as people, as human beings, we're, we're meant to.
Speaker 1:I hate using the word work do something with our hands or with our time and talents, and yeah, we're meant to expend energy.
Speaker 2:We're not meant to sit on couches and watch tv all day and flip through channels and get angry at the news and then scroll our phones like, unfortunately, that's kind of what's starting to happen. Or I think people's mindset of retirement is I'm going to get to this certain point. I'm going to get to 65 years old, get my pension and then do nothing. Yeah, I'm going to do nothing. It's in your DNA to do things, to just sit around and do nothing as such a waste of your breath in your life and that's why?
Speaker 2:I think that's why a lot of times, when people retire, they die yeah you hear that all the time yeah, it's sad, but yeah because they're doing nothing. They don't know, what to do. Yeah, okay. So in your opinion, what happens, like when we finally make it, like when we finally reach the thing that we've been trying to reach?
Speaker 1:life, then you're dead life, and then you're dead yeah, because we're all trying to like accomplish life right. So if we've, if we've made it and lived life and we finally made it to the finish line, wouldn't we be dead?
Speaker 2:that's fair. I mean, I would think so your purpose is over your mission's done right, yeah, you're dead and you know it's a tragic, you know it's like such a tragedy is Okay. So I got to lay this foundation. We got to all understand our time here on earth is is rented, it's, it's borrowed. It's not forever and I think we make the mistake of Going through life just kind of forgetting that. I think we all know it in the back of our mind.
Speaker 2:We know that we know we're gonna die, but we forget it in the mundane day-to-day stuff. And how tragic is it in life when someone loses their life at a young age? I mean, death is tragic in and of itself for the most part, but when a young person dies, when somebody just gets hit by a drunk driver or or they get like a cancer, and it's suicide or commit suicide and their, their life and their purpose is cut short.
Speaker 2:And so, for anybody listening, well, that's one of the things that I think about often, and I hammer it on myself too, and I'm a little hard on myself. I'm like Eric, you've got a limited time to do something, to do the thing that you want to do. You've got Very limited time. Your time here on earth is not forever. So, unless you're waking up every day, make moving, than mark just an inch forward. It doesn't have to be every day you're doing some crazy, but just move it an inch at a time. Every day, you should be doing something towards your purpose making yourself better, making people smile, being a good human, because you're not given tomorrow.
Speaker 2:You know Well said so the last question I was gonna ask you is Do you think that journey or the destination is more important?
Speaker 1:Hmm, I Didn't write this one down because I think I'm still, and you could see it's right here.
Speaker 2:Number five yeah, she does.
Speaker 1:She have number five and it's blank blank, and then I started writing other stuff, and Addie's drawings are there too. I Think it largely depends on your faith of where you're going for eternity, because life is so short Compared to the rest of eternity, and my faith is that I will get to meet my creator someday when my Journey here on earth is over, and I think that's true for you too. So, but I think that what you do on this earth is meaningful and it's impactful, and you're Doing something towards the kingdom of God. But I also think that the destination of being in eternity with my maker is probably a little bit more important to me, at least then living here on earth With not God, you know. So I still think that there, I mean, I think that they're both important, because he certainly does say don't waste your time down here, you know, and what you do on here, you gain riches in heaven you store treasures.
Speaker 2:He says store your treasure up in heaven. Yeah, not on earth, yeah because on earth Moths eat and destroy. Things get rusty and decay and he's breaking and steel. But in heaven there are no moths that destroy Things don't decay and rust away and thieves can't break in and steal.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:How do you, how do you store your treasures in heaven, though, like in your mind? What are you? What are you doing every day? Because, because clearly you know, the question was is a journey or the destination? And, more important from what I'm gathering, is your faith kind of dictates all of that.
Speaker 1:I Think it's the, the people that I meet along the way, like the seeds that I plant here for other people's faith. Those are the treasures, because if I get to meet them in heaven some day and they're just like man, kate, like because you told your story, because you shared that with me, because you spoke truth into my life and Shared your faith now I get to be up here with God as well.
Speaker 1:So, that just makes me emotional thinking about that, because those are the treasures the people. People will be the treasures more people that we could add to the kingdom of God. It's worth far more than rubies and gold and anything that you can store up here on earth because you don't take it with you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we all end up in the same, physically anyway. Same location, six feet under yeah and no one is better or worse Than the, the person next to them in the grave.
Speaker 1:Yeah, in terms of what they had, what they, how much money they made our bodies will all decay and yeah and die, but our spirits go on they do and if I think and if I could help and spirits To meet God and to meet Jesus, that's, um, that's a pretty cool goal and a pretty awesome destination to look forward to yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2:You know, I read this, this book recently and they, they had this. This image of it was a picture of a dot, just a small like a period, and then next to it a line that went across like two pages and he said oftentimes I think of my life here on Earth as this dot. It seems like a long time, 70, 80, 90 years, but that line is what's after and that line is exponentially never-ending. It's so much bigger, it's huge, it's unfathomably long compared to the dot and that line is where you spend eternity and what you do here on Earth determines how you spend eternity. And that really messed with me and I kind of pondered that for a while.
Speaker 2:And here on Earth matters, what we're doing now matters, but it's all, for it depends on your faith. Really, when are you going? I feel like just having faith in something bigger than us is so important because it helps drive us. The thing about faith is it's the most powerful human emotion next to love. Faith is so powerful. I know because at one point I was kind of a non-believer, I was like a lukewarm.
Speaker 1:I was like I kind of believe?
Speaker 2:I kind of don't, but I didn't have any driver. I didn't have this like you got to get moving. You got to get moving because you're only here for a certain amount of time before you meet your maker and he casts judgment on you. It's so powerful to have faith. I can't explain that enough, so yeah, Should we wrap this up?
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay. I hope that there was something out of here that you're able to kind of a nugget, that you're able to apply and take from it and say you know what this has really helped me.
Speaker 1:And even fat-provoking questions for you to answer as well of you. Know how you live your life and don't wait to live your life, because it is living with or without you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely, and real quick, guys. If you liked this, I'd love it if you shared it with somebody, because you never know, you might be able to help change someone's perspective and really switch their life around. So thanks a lot for listening, guys. We'll see you next time. You just start.
Speaker 1:Sickling, sickling, sickling, sickling sickling, sickling, sickling sickling, sickling, simply tired guys. I'm not, I'm not boozing it up every night.
Speaker 2:Yes, she is.