5 Easy Steps to Make Your Dreams Come True
I had a set of rituals that I knew would put me on course to the life of my dreams.
The only problem was--and this is a big one--I was chasing the wrong dream. At the time I was fighting a 6 year illness & felt helpless. I would be lucky to survive, much less have my dreams come true. I was overwhelmed. Although I didn't appreciate it at the time, my prayers were being answered. The Universe always has our backs.
Is there anything you tell yourself you will do more once you retire. If so, then there's a big chance you should be making more time for NOW--not some far off time that might never come.
There's no final resting place during this life when you're free to prance through a meadow. It's imperative we make sure to have fun now, along the way, or we waste the whole shooting match of boring obligations.
Here are the 10 East Steps to Making Your Dreams Come True--today!
1. What's Your Dream?
This is honestly the trickiest step. We complicate the heck out of it. We think, "What's my life's purpose?" and then we break out in a cold sweat.
Start with the easy stuff. What feels good to you? You don't need to decide everything right this instant, but just start collecting ideas for your life that makes you feel excited and enthusiastic about the possibilities. Write some things down. Just keep some kind of simple record of what you your dream for your life is.
Close your eyes and see what pictures emerge. Images that come into my mind are sunny nature scenes, oceans, mountains. I also want to own a beach house & wake up hearing the waves every morning and create "Angel Haven"-a safe place for homeless & abused women and children.
2. Decide and Believe.
Many of us will pick a great dream of ourselves and then immediately start pecking furiously with a list of ways it can't, won't, or shouldn't work out out for us. STOP THAT!
If there's a word for both deciding and believing in one fell swoop, the word would be commitment. You have to commit to your dream. Don't just put it in a box and close the lid, never to see the light of day. You have to take it out and fondle it...every...day. Take it out, play with it, give it some air.
DECISION + BELIEF = COMMITMENT
Decide you want your dream to happen. FOR REAL. Believe it will and can happen. FOR REAL. This is the magic sauce that will help propel your dream into reality. If you don't decide and believe and therefore commit, well then...as Henry Ford said, "Whether you think you can, or you think you can't---you're right."
3. Release Fear.
This next step isn't a one-time event. It's probably something you're going to have to do over and over, every time you notice you're stuck and you've stopped forward momentum.
We disguise fear under logistics all the time: "Oh, I didn't have time to go after that dream, I need to make money!" Sure ya do. So get up early.
"Well I don't have the time!" Sure ya do. Get up early.
"But then I will be exhausted!" Here's the thing. In April when I was getting up early, it was a bit of a battle. I was always feeling like it took heroics to drag my limp body out of bed that early.
It's all in your attitude. This go round, I decided it was going to be easy and exciting to get up early and work on my website. I decided it's not going to be difficult. I decided to get the sleep I needed, and not be so dramatic and sacrificial about getting up.
Choose the Right Attitude. Release Fear. Repeat.
4. Take Action!
Figure out what you need to DO to make your dream happen! Then go do it. EVERY DAY!
To sum up step 4, take action daily.
5. Love Yourself.
It's really easy to loose your dream in the frenzy of daily living. Just slow down, pump the breaks, relax. Listen
Take quite time alone everyday...early morning if need be...to reflect, read, write, and to hear yourself think. Give yourself the time and space to feel your feelings and organize your thoughts so that you may stay in touch with your own needs and desires for your life.
Continued Tomorrow!
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In these days of frenzy I do think that we are encouraged to do everything as quickly as we possibly can and we should all step back and take time to reflect where our lives are taking us but us Barry bazboy247 quite rightly says that is easier said than done when you have the rentman knocking at the door for your rent, but if we can all take some solace from your words Marian then I am sure we can all learn to just slow down and try to make the best of what we have.
I think you should get rid of the word easy
If it were easy to release fear and believe everybody would do it
Its easy to write about it but not so easy to do ti
Barry
You are right. I wanted to get people to read it. I'm still working on it and I thought if I put all the steps in one place, then it would be easy to go there and review what's missing. Have a great day, Bazboy. I like your input.
Thanks for reading. I love reading blogs as much as I do writing them. There's such a wealth of knowledge in WA.
Hi Marian, no one really ever posts images on their comments, but this one deserves it. Thank You! I am printing this one. This is my first time. Hope it can be seen
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That is a good list, there is a couple of the things on the list I need to work on, Thank for the reminder.
We all have to check the list every so often when we get off track. Blessings to you!