Dreamer #1:
Elyse from Los Angeles, California
January 1st - 14th

Here is her experience:
"When Erin and Graydon proposed their idea to me, I was floored by their generous offer.  $25 dollars to a random person so that they could have a chance to pursue any dream they have been longing to do?  Incredible!

It took me ages to finally settle on an idea. Not for lack of ideas, but rather for an overwhelming amount of possibilities.  I struggled with personal (selfish) dreams, and with the idea that I ought to 'pay it forward'.  I finally came to the conclusion of a combination.  One evening, I decided to go to Chick-Fil-A and indulge in some great fast food.  As I pulled up to the drive-thru, my eye was caught by a homeless man holding a piece of cardboard with one simple word: "Hungry".  I ordered him the most popular item from the menu, and held a short conversation with him.  He was a honestly sweet man.  After walking away, I realized the cost of buying him dinner was not an outrageous amount yet allowed him a chance to spend the night with a warm meal in his stomach.

I still had a few dollars left over and spent a lot of time trying to figure it out before settling on something I've been dreaming of doing for years but have always been too chicken to do.

Blondie!

What did I do?!

Heyo! 

I learned so much in the process of allowing myself to follow some dreams that I've never allowed myself to pursue for a variety of reasons.  The most important lesson was to have courage to pursue a dream.  I've started a list of goals I want to achieve in 2012, all steaming from this project.  I've already started the list with joining a gym and having the courage to seek a new, awesome church.  I'm so excited to see whatelse I will acheive with my own $25 in the year to come."

Congratulations Elyse on being the first dreamer on the blog. May she inspire all of you to keep dreaming!

It all begins with a letter.

"To all who have ever dreamed big, hoped much, been spontaneous, supported an ideal, loved life or simply been inspired to try something new. Sometimes life gives you the opportunity to experience it in a new way, to throw caution to the wind and simply be. In this envelope is “25 For The Dreamer” – a gift card to do something inspirational, something creative or something you might not normally do. Here is an opportunity to ignite, create, start, continue, finish or live a dream. You have been given $25 and you can do whatever you want with it but then you have to take a picture or video of yourself however you spend it and write a short blurb of how you fed your inner creative genius.

Stuck on ideas:

Get your nails done crazy, Donate it to a Charity, Go eat at that restaurant you have always wanted to try, buy art supplies, buy flowers for that special someone, paint a wall, buy 50 bouncy balls and bounce them in the stairwell, put money towards a snowboard, buy that snack food that is never in the budget, buy that something blue for your wedding, just eat ice cream for three days, take a taxi somewhere, buy bread to feed the birds, buy a kite….. the sky’s the limit… or is it?

You have your mission and two weeks to spend $25 and create memories.

There are never too many pictures or videos of a fun memory."

And it ends with a story.

What will the dreamers do next?

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