One Lucky Penny

Well it made it to the weekend. Looking at so far the computer is in the running as best trade for the first auction. There is still a day and half left. Right now I feel like I’m in shock. It has been a very fast week.

I was looking at the website for The Red Paper Clip and looked at his journey. It was really good and to think I’m like 4 trades ahead of that. What is shocking is he has about 7 Million people that have come to his site. 7 MILLLION now that is crazy. Think of how many lives he has touched.

So I went to bed with that on my mind got up and took a shower and thought of something. I’m about all of our dreams. I’m about God Sized dreams. I’m about my dreams AND your dreams. If we all did what we were called to do think how different this world would be? That being said I am now buckling down because this is going to get a whole lot bigger than even I will know. I will really do my best to lead this in an honerable direction. I know this, that if I have the chance to touch 7 MILLION lives I better be prepared to answer at the gate, how do you think you did with the dreams I have given to those people? WOW. No pressure! LOL

NOW THIS BELOW IS ME THINKING OUTLOUD! LOL I just want you to know what I’m thinking.

I was given a great idea this AM when I woke up. I have been asked by people if they can help. Well this will be an ongoing change as we move on. I think one of the ideas for the next auction will be the opportunity to buy a penny for a set price.(Maybe $5 after shipping handling ebay fees and taxes I might be left with $2.50. LOL)

I will mail the penny to you with a blank sheet of paper. I will want the person to take that paper and HANDWRITE their dream or dreams this will be mailed back to me. I want to start a dream book that I can put all of YOUR dreams in. Alice (from OK) has sent me an email with her dream and I was inspired! I have to iron out the details, but I have a couple of days. LOL I’m thinking though, that everywhere I end up (Jay Leno LOL) I will take your dreams with me. The reason is so that you know I won’t forget and when you see the book with me on any tv things you will remember not to forget either!!!! This small dollar amount will at least pay for gas a day off to do each trade around the United States. I want us all to go on this journey.

I never really had in mind to charge anything, but the fact is I’m a housepainter with debt like many of you. Gas and time off work might be able to be offset me driving around the US. And I think the book will give me something tangible when this whole thing comes to end and I can look and remember a moment in time when I met so many people with a dream.

All this will only work with your help. Thank you so much for everything you have done so far.

God Bless and I look forward to what is ahead.

Todd

    Now that is an exciting question.  As I’m looking at some very touching emails I can’t help but wonder what today brings.  As I think about it I’m so stinking excited and I don’t know why.  I mean everyday holds a different treasure and you never know what is in it.  

I think where we get messed up is our routines.  We start to not expect anything big happening.  So we go to work and come home to a routine.  I guess the treasures are all around us and we become blinded or numb.  I’m guilty of that.  Even though I am a confessed Dreamer. Reality of work and paying bills and running kids to different functions takes it out of us.  I almost feel like it is the MATRIX.  I have a choice right now to take the red pill or the blue pill.

What would you choose?  Right now I have been given a gift of not knowing and having excitement.  It’s like a huge God gift.  Blind faith.  Putting on a blind fold and taking one huge step.  It’s like I’m alive again.  And honestly when the dust settles from the destination of the penny I don’t want to ever loose this feeling.

I have laughed and cried more this last week then I can remember.  It is all from being inspired and humbled that others feel the same way as I and are following this wild little journey with me.

I’m no different then anyone reading this blog just had a little more dream inspired motivation to break away from the mould.  

Again as I head out to work today thank you for all your support!!!!!!  I am blessed!  I hope you look for your inspiration today.  Just take one small step and try a little Blind faith.  I believe you have been given God sized dreams and He is waiting to lead you.  

I know I’m always preaching. LOL  I look forward to updating everyone later today!!

Dare to Dream

Todd 

    Here it is coming to an end another day.  Today I was on the news again with an update.  So we are making some progress.  Also I was able to get through to a radio show called Mancow.  They are a nation wide radio show.  They liked the story and were going to put me on, but after being on hold for 40 minutes they ran out of time. So tom. is a new day. We will see what it brings.  Thanks for all your support.

Todd

    Last night I had a hard time sleeping.  I guess it starting to sink in that this could happen a lot sooner than I thought.  Now I start wondering what am I going to say?  

    It’s a big responsibility when you think about it.  I would love to just go have lunch with Jay and pick his brain and ask questions away from the show.  I think about what kind of dreams does he have?  I mean you have a great show, money is really no object.  Do you thank God everyday and turn your attention on you family?  What is it he dreams about?  

      That is a good question I think.  My Goal Dream Sheet contains some HUGE God moving Mountain goals.  Where you look at and think Todd you are stinking crazy!!!   Sometimes I feel like I am, but then something comes over me and says this is what I have planned for you.  Than I feel humble and nervous and quite frankly a little scared.  Can I live up to these things?  Can  I handle the objections? 

    Look this penny thing when you start to think about goes way beyond a LUCKY PENNY.  Sure I’m having a blast and I appreciate all the comments,  but what if I could help one person along the way to open their eyes and see their dreams that have been given to them start to come alive?

Anyway I’m just rambleing on.  I must go and paint and make a living now.  Who knows who will call today.  Isn’t fun just waiting and see what doors open?  Life is adventure.

Dare To Dream!!

Todd 

    WOW the penny went to $20 today.  I’m very amazed as you might be as well.  I’m still wanting to do a trade of some sort.  Not really sure.  I was offered a Goat today. LOL  How awesome is that.  A baby goat.  Although what would I say to Jay. “Yea I was auctioning off the LUCKY PENNY and was able to trade for some laser hair removal and a baby goat.  I wasn’t sure what to do so here is a hairless goat that you can keep for a pet!”  That would be awesome!!!  Not eveyone would have a hairless goat.  I’m having so much fun.  Thank you for joining me on this journey. 

     In the upcoming days I will share with you some things from my Dream list.  Like I said we were all put here for a purpose.  Maybe one of my things is to distribute hairless goats?  LOL  I look forward to the next few days. 

Todd 

Well it has started. On Thursday I came up with this crazy idea to auction off a Penny found on the ground. Just go to Ebay and type in One Lucky Penny.

I emailed out the auction to all of our friends. The concept was to see if a penny could actually be lucky. I don’t know if there is really a concept of luck, but I do know that we can make goals and doors and desire help stear us in the directions we take.

So here we start our journey. I have a list of things on a list that I would like to achieve before I leave this great world of ours. I’m 36 and I have always been a dreamer. The older I get the more I notice people around me my age or older just living life. Their dreams abandoned long ago. I know I have to maintain a sence of realism in my life, BUT it doesn’t stop me from thinking outside the box once in awhile.

The question is WHY? Why try and auction off a penny? What is the point really? Why would I want to be on the Jay Leno show? My answer is just something inside me tells me this kind of stuff is what I am meant to do. Whether it is to make people laugh. Maybe cause others to start dreaming again. Ask themselves what is it that God has given yourself a purpose to do and you stopped listening because it may seem insane to those around you.

I have been a house painter for years and I KNOW that is not what I’m called to do forever. I hear it deep in my heart and soul, I also know at this moment until notified, I must run my business until I’m called upon for what comes next. The problem we face is HOW LONG do we wait. You don’t! You plan you dream you prepare yourself.

I guess what the whole point to this Penny thing is to inspire just maybe one person to Dream. To have you think for just one moment what was it the God put on your heart to do. Who cares what the world thinks. If you are finding the passions of your heart you will have found true happiness, because you will know where you were called to be.

Enough with the preaching. It is going to be fun to see what happens. I think what makes life so exciting is not knowing what is around the next corner. So I ask you to take this journey with me and dream a little.

Thanks for joining the journey.

Todd