If you want unshakable confidence, unbreakable dreams and unstoppable success…
If you want to always find a way to DO what you DREAM…
Then you need to follow the five Cool Dream Doer Rules.
Because these rules are so important to making your dreams come true, we’ll focus on one of the rules each week. I’ll introduce the rule to you on Monday, then give you action challenges Tuesdays-Fridays so you know how to put the information to work for you. Then on Saturdays we’ll wrap things up and assess our progress or “Champion Dream Doer” status.
At the end of every five weeks, we’ll start over. But each week we’ll learn something new about the rule and a new way to apply the rule to your life.
So here we go with Cool Dream Doer Rule #1: BE YOURSELF: Use your God-given talents to pursue your dreams.
This rule sounds pretty easy, but when you think about it, it’s actually kind of tough.
What if you don’t know who “yourself” is?
What if you’ve been too busy trying to fit in with your friends that you haven’t taken the time to figure out how to fit in with you?
What if you’re afraid that who you are is someone completely different than who your friends and family expect you to be?
What if you don’t know what your talents are?
What if you aren’t sure what dreams you want to pursue?
So in order to follow this rule, you have to figure you who YOU are, what YOU are great at and what YOU want.
Not who anyone else tells you to be.
Not who anyone else wants you to be.
But who YOU are.
Whew. That’s a lot to figure out.
So how do you do that?
Where do you start?
In all honesty, there’s not one right way to figure out who you are or one right place to start. So I’ll just pick a beginning, we’ll start small and we’ll go from there.
To help you figure out what your talents are, I’m going to write three sentences but leave a blank in each. You just finish the sentence with the first things that comes to mind.
Ready? Good…here we go!
- When I do ___________, I feel confident.
- The thing I most enjoy doing is ______________.
- If I didn’t have to go to school, I would want to spend my time doing ____________ instead.
We’re just getting started here, so tune in tomorrow for more ‘Be Yourself’ exercises. If you follow through with the exercises, you’ll know more about who you are and what you want by the end of this week.
Exciting, huh?
To your dreams,
Bonnie Jean