The Dream Doer League

A big part of learning how to Be Yourself is by discovering what your talents are.

A talent is a skill you’re naturally good at and love to do. The more you practice that skill, the better and better you become.

Your talents are what make you special and unique. These are areas where you can achieve greatness.

So discovering your talents is pretty important. If you don’t know what skills you need to practice, you’ll never have a chance to reach your potential!

One thing you can do to discover your talents is ask yourself three questions about your friends and family.

• What kinds of things do they ask for your help with?
• What kinds of things do you enjoy doing for them?
• What kinds of things do they struggle with that comes easily to you?

Go ahead. Answer those questions honestly right now. By answering those questions, you’ll begin to discover your talents.

To your dreams,
Bonnie Jean

Picture this.

You’re sitting on your floor in your bedroom. Your knees are curled up to your chest. Your arms are hugging your shins. Your forehead is resting on top of your knees.

It’s night. Your eyes are closed. The lights are off. Your computer is off. Your phone is on off. Your tv is off.

You’re breathing. Calmly. In. Out. In. Out.

You’re smiling. You’re happy.

You’re imagining what your life is like when you are free to be yourself. To live your dreams. To make your own choices.

What do you see yourself doing?

What do you hear yourself saying?

What do you feel yourself feeling?

Now you open your eyes. You smile.

You’ve just experienced what it’s like to be yourself in your mind.

Now you’re ready to experience what it’s like to be yourself in reality right now.

What do you do to be yourself right now?

What do you say to be yourself right now?

What do you feel when you are yourself right now?

(It’s up to you to finish this story. So answer these questions, then TAKE ACTION based on what you write!)

To your dreams,
Bonnie Jean

Here it is, your BE YOURSELF challenge of the day…

Imagine yourself ten years from today. It’s March 3, 2020.

Go ahead. Picture it. How old are you? Where do you live? What do you look like? Do you have a pet dog, a pet fish or a pet pencil?

On this day, you get to do whatever you want to do. You get to choose your actions. You get to control what you say, what you do and where you go.

By the end of the day, you know you’ve done something important and valuable. You know that you’ve made someone else’s life better by doing what you dream.

So what is it that you do? What skills do you see yourself using? Who do you see yourself helping? What difference do you make?

Have fun with this. Trust your instincts, and write down the first things that come to your mind.

Chances are that what you see yourself doing reflect who you are and what you can become great at.

To your dreams,
Bonnie Jean

Yup.  That’s right.  I stand by my post title.  You totally, absolutely, 100% CANNOT do what you dream…unless you follow Dream Doer Rule #1:  Be Yourself.

Being yourself means you’re free to choose how you think, how you feel, what you say and what you do instead of relying on other people to create your identity for you.

Being yourself also means that you stick to your strengths when chasing your dreams.  Of course you first have to know what your strengths are in order to stick to them.

The kind of strengths I’m talking about here are your God-given talents, skills you are naturally good at and love to do.

Need help identifying your talents? 

Then you should prepare yourself to accept the BE YOURSELF Dream Doer Challenge of the day.

Are you prepared? 

Excellent. 

I now challenge you to answer this question: 

• What is the BEST success you’ve had in your life so far?

(Was it getting a good grade? Winning a competition? Helping a friend?)

(What is one thing you’ve done that made you feel great?)

Write your answer down…because recognizing your own success is the first step to finding your unshakable confidence, chasing your unbreakable dreams and living with unstoppable success.

To your dreams,
Bonnie Jean

P.S.  Don’t keep your BEST success to yourself!  Share it with me by adding a comment!

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!

1. When I do ___________, I feel confident.
2. The thing I most enjoy doing is ______________.
3. 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