A Tool to Achieve your Dreams

Trent Kitsch
May 4
3 min read

Updated: May 13

By Trent Kitsch

Write your goals down, write your dreams down, take them with you everywhere you go and it will pay you dividends you didn’t know possible. At least that’s what it did for me.

I used to call the laminated card I carry around in my wallet my “goals card” but about three years ago, I changed it to my “dreams card” because the word dream is so light and sometimes the word goal can feel very heavy. I started my dreams card in 1999 so I have been doing this for 25 years.

Here is the backstory:

In 1999, at a class at the University of the battle of Las Vegas I was to write down goals.The professor taught us how to set goals and to write them down. He instructed us to carry them in our wallet and - if you’re really great read - them daily. I have to be honest that I don’t read mine daily but I bring them out often.

I have gone back to my dream card and reestablished what is important to me what are my values and where do I wanna be today but also 3 to 5 years down the road. Even my current goals card talks about 2045.

I can’t remember the professor’s name, but I wish I could thank him for what incredible gift he gave me and how much a class assignment has on my life.

What at first was one-sided and unorganized has now been shaped into a priority value set and two sides of eight point, typed font. In the last few years I have taken lot of the volume out of my dreams cards as humbly I have achieved a lot of my dreams - partly due to the fact that I listed them in the first place.

Here are the results:

It feels great to speak to yourself in the future. To ask yourself what are the decisions you can make today that "future you" will thank "present you" for making. That helps me set my dreams; I’m basically having a conversation with my future self and envisioning the lifestyle that I want to design.

Success should be defined by yourself and not relative to someone else's definition of success. What is important to me is different than what is important to you and generally, it is a losing game to play the comparison game. I wish you all the luck and blessings in the world, including the ability to (in time) start crossing off the items on your card - and it feels so good.

*Knox Mountain Park, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada*

I usually set my dreams at a spot on Knox Mountain in Kelowna BC it’s where I proposed to Ria and a very special spot for me as we also named our son after the mountain. I suggest you find a spot that’s very special to you, the time to sit with yourself, and in time do it with your partner as I do now and write down your dreams in respect to Health, Relationship, Career, Financial, Hobby, Learning, etc., - all of the things that are important to you.

If you would like the template I use for a dream card, we have it available here.

I hope one day you see me at an airport and (as it happened a few times), come up to me and show me your dream card. I will have a dry tear and we will hug.

I am going to host a virtual “Dreams Card - meet at the fountain” free google meet once we get to 1,000 subscribers, so please share the newsletter and help us reach our dream together.

Here’s to being a Fountain in your life and hoping all your dreams come true .

4 Comments

Milla

May 12

This post is really close to my heart. I feel like, I kinda forgot about my specific dreams that I put on my vision board this year and I don’t even look at it anymore. I really want to start to look at it daily. So my question is, how often do you revise it? Do you have a specific date or is it whenever you feel like it. Do you have another ritual with your dream card?

Ria Kitsch

May 13

Replying to

Great questions! For Trent, he writes his goals on a card that fits in his wallet (yes the font is 10pt lol). He pulls it out to look at it probably at least once a month, but in particular, when there is a decision at hand. It's incredible how much a review of your goals can help you decide whether to take path A or path B.

In terms of re-writing, it's usually once per year but not necessarily on Jan 1 :)

Chayce Lee

Trent, this post hit home. The shift from calling it a “goals card” to a “dreams card” is subtle but powerful — it reframes ambition as something uplifting and personal rather than pressure-filled. I also appreciated the idea of speaking to your future self and designing a life based on values, not comparisons. That’s a mindset more people need, especially in a world obsessed with instant results.

Your story reminded me that producing and financing films is ultimately just a tool, like your dream card, to help tell meaningful stories and create a legacy. Thank you for sharing this. I might start carrying my own “dreams card” — I’ve got a few big ones that deserve to be written down.

trentandria

May 17

Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts. The words we pick matter, it's true, and at the finish line of life - it will only be you. I'm glad you enjoyed this and it sounds like you are in a really interesting line of work as well - I have so many ideas for movies! I hope you do a dreams card and that one day I get to hear about it.