The first key to living your dreams is to believe them possible and to foster utter faith in yourself.  You’ll find that the crazier your dream, the more likely your friends and family are to think that you will fail, while strangers would be incredibly supportive.

That’s interesting information to have but it doesn’t matter.  Know thy dream and cultivate the fortitude to bring that dream to reality, regardless of whether others approve or disapprove.

What is the second key?

Action

Most people think the second key is research but it isn’t.  I am not saying that planning and research are not important to creating your new life, but that it should not be the second action you take.  If you begin to ‘plan’ and ‘research’ before you have taken any action, then the planning is simply a more kinesthetic way of indulging the fantasy of your dream.

Take action first.  Then  begin your research and planning.

It doesn’t have to be a big action, just a powerful one that sets your intention.  Update your resume.  Talk with your Beloved.  Join an organization related to your goal.  Connect with people who are already doing what you wish to be doing.

Then get to planning to goal setting.

Why don’t we take action first?

  • Because we think we have to know the how.
  • Because we want to plan the entire journey, step-by-step.
  • Because we are waiting for someone else to take an action that will jumpstart our dream.
  • Because we are waiting for someone else to make us an authority.
  • Because we think that creating a to-do list is an action.

Don’t wait for anyone else. 

Start now. 

Start today. 

I’ve started with a website, a CraigsList post, a “Hire Me!” page.  It’s that simple.

I worried that I didn’t have a degree or certification to do what I want to do.  “No one will take me seriously!”  I thought I needed someone else’s approval to begin.  But the truth of the matter is that both you and I know that a degree, a certification, doesn’t make a master. 

What makes a master is someone who has mastered.  What have you mastered?  What ability do you have absolute faith in?  What have you created for yourself?

I know plenty of people who grabbed a certification to become a realtor, a financial planner, a degree and license for counseling married couples.  But are these people living authentically?  Are they practicing what they preach?

You can never be inspired by those who present philosophy.  What is inspiring, how you will inspire, is by living and being the truth in practice of such ideas, so that the principles you espouse are no longer philosophy but conviction.

Who is taking action?

Derek of iWillNotDie kicked off his fundraiser.  Sean of WriterDad began writing (we)e-books.  Kip de Moll is a phenemonal book editor and is ready for more!  Lindsey of EmphaticAsterisk is writing a book on Homosexuality and Christianity.  SanityFound is getting the heck out of South Africa.  Dreemwhrld is engaged in total immersion traveling.  Mssc54 has adopted two beautiful children.  Connie is rocking her 50th birthday.  Marlajayne is writing a book.  Cory of aGoodHusband has expanded his passion for fully integrating men in HusbandsandDads.  Corey of SimpleMarriage has expanded his message to a whole new medium.

You?