Last year, when fawning organizers of a video game conference asked Rigopulos to give a speech about "living the dream," he wistfully marked up a PowerPoint chart of Harmonix's annual profits and losses. He labeled the company's breakout year, 2006, as "The Dream." The years 1995 through 2005, shown almost entirely in red ink, were "The Part Before That."
My takeaway from this is that we can never give up on our dreams. It was more than the bottom line that was pushing these guys. It was commitment to realizing their dream (getting non-musicians making music).
Sometimes it can feel like we're living in "The Part Before That", but I think that it's required for the dream to feel, well, dreamy. No matter how frustrating church planting can be (and it can), there's still much there to savor.
And, when it's time to realize the dream, you're grateful that you kept true to it
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