Usually, I find these dreams on my client’s bucket list… and on mine too. It’s in the fuzzy future restlessly waiting to happen. While life speeds by, the list gets postponed with the ‘don’t have time’, or ‘it’s just a fantasy anyway’. No doubt we can all come up with many other such story lines. Let me offer 10 examples that are just still words on some of my clients’ curled up lists:
- Becoming a published author
- Owning my own business
- Winning a sports competition
- Acting in a play or movie
- Being a model
- Recording a song solo or with a band
- Holding my solo art exhibition
- Running a marathon
- Climbing Mount Everest
- Becoming an Ambassador for a cause
Do you have a dream of this type locked up in a drawer? Do you still speak about the fact that Janet actually recorded the very song you had playing in your mind for 10 years, and Paul wrote the best-seller
you were about to write. Are you smarting over the fact that Frederick got a gig as an actor when you were the best one for the role, and Ann started a business you were thinking of? And what about Jacques who walked the road to St-Jacques de Compostelle, and has been boasting about it since, grating on your last nerve every time he talks about it!
Let’s try a different scenario:
First acknowledge the dream! Believe that you have a right to it! It’s there for a reason after all. So go ahead, shine some light on it!
Next, identify 1 person, 1 resource, 1 action you need to take to make your dream happen. It only takes a first step.
Finally, stay on the path long enough to see if this is really for you. Once you start there is often a momentum that builds, a second, a third step, and so forth.
A dream takes on a life of its own, so keep persisting.
Consider this: none of the so-called overnight successes were actually overnight successes. Folks prepared for months or years until the opportunity came along to get to the next level. Maybe you can self-publish first, maybe you can direct your kid’s school play, maybe you can film a small event, record a song and put it on YouTube. The message? Start where you are. Which means that yes, you
can accomplish your dream.
An idea on your mind lately? Let me know one step you’re willing to take toward making it a reality.
