Comments on: Goals, Dreams, and Values: Separating the Tangible from the Fantastic http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/05/01/goals-dreams-and-values-separating-the-tangible-from-the-fantastic/ Financial talk for the rest of us Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:14:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: paula http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/05/01/goals-dreams-and-values-separating-the-tangible-from-the-fantastic/#comment-22319 paula Wed, 02 May 2007 17:21:57 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/05/01/goals-dreams-and-values-separating-the-tangible-from-the-fantastic/#comment-22319 Hi, Paula, thanks for the advice. But I think a fan is the sort of thing that should be carried routinely everywhere, so people stop thinking that using $$ with the A/C is their only solution to feeling hot. We now use electric ceiling fans, so we need to bring back our grandmothers’ sustainable-energy-friendly hand-activated fans!

I use one my daughter picked up at some tourist trap about 10 years ago. (I don’t dare tell her I have it, or she’d demand it back!)

Plus, fans are so romantic: people always lean in for the air that I generate with mine! ;)

]]> By: Gal Josefsberg http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/05/01/goals-dreams-and-values-separating-the-tangible-from-the-fantastic/#comment-22311 Gal Josefsberg Wed, 02 May 2007 17:00:33 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/05/01/goals-dreams-and-values-separating-the-tangible-from-the-fantastic/#comment-22311 I read an interesting book lately. There’s a line that stuck with me. It was “A goal is a dream with a deadline”. A dream is just that, something you dream about but are not actively pursuing. A goal is a dream you have decided to do. You set a deadline, you create a plan to achieve it. That’s an important lesson about dreams. If you want them to come true you have to stop dreaming and start planning.

]]> By: Paula http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/05/01/goals-dreams-and-values-separating-the-tangible-from-the-fantastic/#comment-22298 Paula Wed, 02 May 2007 15:42:02 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/05/01/goals-dreams-and-values-separating-the-tangible-from-the-fantastic/#comment-22298 Hey, paula, Paula here: you can get fans on eBay easily, and Arribas Brothers carries nice ones.

]]> By: paula http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/05/01/goals-dreams-and-values-separating-the-tangible-from-the-fantastic/#comment-22286 paula Wed, 02 May 2007 14:15:30 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/05/01/goals-dreams-and-values-separating-the-tangible-from-the-fantastic/#comment-22286 The painting that accompanies this post is very nice. It also serves as a reminder of what we did before air conditioning. Have you tried to find a fan like this in recent years? It’s impossible. That’s a terrible shame. With all the stuff being imported from China, you’d think the hand-held “oriental fan” would be among them.

]]> By: MVP http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/05/01/goals-dreams-and-values-separating-the-tangible-from-the-fantastic/#comment-22197 MVP Wed, 02 May 2007 02:38:51 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/05/01/goals-dreams-and-values-separating-the-tangible-from-the-fantastic/#comment-22197 I like this post. Makes me see I’m naturally going in the right direction to eventually be a stay-at-home mom with a modest house in a modest neighborhood, a fabulous marriage and awesome children. This all takes some serious planning, in my opinion, and I’m sure ten years from now, my husband and I will be pleased with ourselves that we put off certain fun things we could’ve done in our early marriage to get out of debt and prepare for our future as a one-income family.

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