What Does It Mean to Own Your Dreams?
What Does It Mean to Own Your Dreams?
Have you ever met a person who lives by the saying “If you keep your expectations low in life, you will never be disappointed?” Has that person experienced the fulfillment of goals? I doubt it. We only have one life to live, so that life needs to be lived with Intentionality.
*Make a firm decision to really live.
In a recent blog post by author Farnoosh Brock, she relates:
“We cannot really live if we protect our heart so much that we never fall hopelessly in love with other humans lest they break it. (And some definitely will!)
We cannot really live if we take so few risks that our achievements are passable but forever leave us itching for the thrill, the excitement, the climax of our abilities.
We cannot really know the joyous wonders of our own mind and body if we’re always inside a comfortable, familiar bubble.”
*Go After It.
Ask yourself “Do I really really want it – this dream, this desire, this thing that I claim I want?” If your answer is “Yes,” then make friends with all of the discomfort that will be required to achieve your goal! Brock also comments that “…your problem is typically not lack of courage or ability or guts. It is dismissing and delaying what you want; denying the fact that what you want matters and that it deserves space in your life, on your calendar, in your heart.”
*Do the Hard Work.
This begins with identifying your skill gaps and learning more about ways to close them. Take all your chances to make your goals possible.
Write down the answers to these three questions:
- What do I really really want?
- Why do I want this?
- What needs to happen for me to take that next step toward this?
For the times that you may forget to direct your own course, please remember these words:
“Every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, ‘This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!’ And each day, it’s up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say, ‘No. This is what’s important.’” Iain Thomas
“If you measure something, you can understand it. If you understand it, you can control it, and if you can control it, you can improve it.” The same holds true in your monthly budgeting.
The reality is that it is nearly impossible to complete & follow a monthly budget without improving your overall financial position. There are several reasons for this, so I would challenge you to do this.
First, just developing a budget for yourself will raise your awareness of what you have for revenue or income sources and then also boost your cognizance of how much you are spending each month. Next, you will come to grips with the reality of one of three facts. Either you need to boost your income sources, reduce your outgoing expenditures or, thank goodness, if you have more income than expenses, you can then save some money. Of course, this is fantastic! You just need to determine where you will store or invest those extra funds each month…
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