Dreaming Beyond Logic: The Case for Beautiful Delusion

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the power of delusion.

Not the kind that disconnects us from reality–
but the kind that dares us to imagine something beyond what we’ve seen.

“Delusional” gets a bad rap.

You’re delusional to think that’ll happen. Delusional to believe you can build that.
Delusional to think you can feel that good and still succeed.

And yet – every visionary, founder, healer, and creator I know
has been just delusional enough to believe in a reality that didn’t exist yet.

That belief isn’t foolish. It’s fuel.
It’s often the spark that pulls possibility out of the invisible.

Each quarter, one of my dearest friends and I host what we call our WAM Goals – Weekly Accountability Meetings. Inspired by The 12-Week Year, we dream in sprints:

• goals that stretch us,
• visions that don’t make “logical sense,”
• desires that might sound unreasonable to anyone else.

And truthfully?

Half the time, I don’t know how I’ll pull them off when I set them.

But again and again, something opens.

Sometimes within weeks.
Sometimes in its own divine timing.
Sometimes better than anything I could have planned.

Like my home.

I had a clear, nearly “delusional” vision – the timeline, the feeling, the number.

And somehow, within that same window, the house found me.
It checked every box I’d named–
and a few I hadn’t yet known to ask for.

That’s the magic of pairing bold belief with aligned action and surrendered timing.

It’s not reckless.
It’s not naïve.
It’s creation.

Our brains are wired to predict based on the past.
So when we imagine something new, it feels “unrealistic” because our neural maps haven’t seen it before.

But vision is how we teach the brain a new possibility.
Faith is the bridge between imagination and evidence.

And as James Clear says:

“When people say you’re being unrealistic, they’re really saying they can’t imagine it – not that you can’t do it.”

And that’s the thing about visionaries, founders, and creators: their dreams rarely make sense to others…right until the moment they do.

So here’s what I’m sitting with – and what I invite you to consider too:

✨ Where in your life or leadership could you allow a little more beautiful delusion?
✨ What would you reach for if you didn’t need to know exactly how it would unfold?
✨ And what might you release – control, timeline, self-doubt – to let it in?

Because sometimes the most transformational goals don’t start with logic.

They start with a whisper.
A nudge.
A little bit of brave, unreasonable belief.

Here’s to dreaming just delusional enough to make room for the extraordinary.