The time for Big and Hairy is now…

Do you know what a BHAG is? A Big Hairy Audacious Goal is a strategic business statement which is created to focus an organisation on a single medium-long term organisation-wide goal which is audacious, likely to be externally questionable, but not internally regarded as impossible – Wikipedia.

Here at A Fresh Chapter, we don’t have BHAGs, we have BHADs…Big Hairy Audacious Dreams. My friends, the time has come for us to get back into the dreaming saddle.

A year ago, I shared this quote with you:

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting, he thought, as he looked again at the position of the sun and hurried his pace.” – The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

Then I told you about My Big Hairy Audacious Dream of creating a not for profit to help cancer survivors volunteer internationally. Near the end of the post, I debated whether I would rather chew on glass than type the following words:

In order to start making this dream a reality, I am officially giving up my apartment in Vancouver on September 30th, lending or giving away almost all of my worldly possessions and packing my bags for a trip around the world. As I write these words, the old me wants to drop-kick the new me and wrap my arms around everything I own and refuse to let go. 

But…it’s time to take risks and make big changes. So, I would love to bring you with me as I figure out a way to partner with a volunteer organization and then raise awareness for this new venture by traveling the world, volunteering in Asia, Africa, and maybe even South America and then putting the structure in place to help other people dream big, post-cancer, reinvent your life kind of dreams.

Here we are…a year and a global Adventure of Hope later. And now, I’m just as terrified, but even more excited about sharing the next phase of building the Fresh Chapter Alliance Foundation with you.

We’re going to New Delhi in February 2013 and we’re taking 12 survivors and film-maker so we can tell the story of cancer survivorship, create global connections, and write new chapters in our stories. After trudging through treatment, the time has come to believe in big dreams and possibilities again…

Do you want to be one of the 12 who make history with this epic adventure OR be part of the dream team who pulls off this audacious plan? I would love you to join the #Delhi2013 Tribe:

To learn more, here’s the hot-off-the presses link where you can sign up to get up-to-the minute information: Delhi 2013

Now, it’s time to search across North America and find the 12 survivors who would benefit the most from this experience. We need your help to do this. Will you spread the word on Facebook, Twitter, email, or frankly however you’d like? Let’s tell as many people as we can about this big hairy audacious dream, so we can get about the business of making it happen. Together, we are starting a revolution of hope and human connection and every big leap into the unknown helps us write the roadmap to our dreams.

It’s scary to take leaps of faith, but the time for big and hairy dreams is NOW. I just love the Ambrose Redmoon quote below and have been blessed to meet so many people, around the world, who are living by his words. Are you?

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.  ~Ambrose Redmoon