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YOU always FIND a WAY to DO what you DREAM when you STICK to your STRENGTHS.

Aug 16

Dream Doer Crash Course, Day 14: The Secret to DOING What You DREAM

***Featuring audio book Chapter 26 of The Dream Doers and the Summer of Secrets, a YA Novel about best friends Alex and Tyler who must battle bullies, face their fears and keep strange secrets the summer they learn to DO what they DREAM.***

(Note: Only Dream Doer League members can hear the audio chapters of this Amazon bestselling young adult novel, but joining is completely, totally, 100% FREE! Just fill out the short form on the right or click here to sign up.)

In the final chapter of The Dream Doers and the Summer of Secrets, everything spins out of control for Tyler and Alex. (Don’t worry…everything happens for a reason, but you’ll have to keep reading The Dream Doers series to find out what that reason is!)

They’ve just spent all summer working together to do what they dream. But if Hector hadn’t helped them, they never would have learned the secret to living their dreams.

That secret can be summed up in one word: CONFIDENCE.

When you’re confident in yourself, you trust your instincts. Trusting your instincts helps you make quick decisions, take action and defy Normalcy.

Where does this confidence come from? It comes from being a person of great character. People of great character know how to use their emotions and their minds to do things they dream.

So what are the basic characteristics that come from the heart you must develop to be a champion?

COURAGE: a quality that helps you take action even when you’re scared.

CREATIVITY: reaching beyond what is obvious into your imagination so you can see how to do what you dream.

ENTHUSIASM: emotional energy that feeds on dreams, desires and goals.

PASSION: expressing intense emotional drive and excitement toward your dreams.

Passion is the foundation. Without developing this trait first, enthusiasm, creativity and courage are possible but weak. The great thing about passion is that it lives inside every person.

The problem is that not every person knows how to find it. Being able to find it, express it and pursue it is what separates Champions from those trapped by Normalcy inside comfort zones.

But you can’t just rely on your emotions. You need to balance your emotions with these four basic mental characteristics:

STRENGTH: holding strongly to an idea or action.

DISCIPLINE: the ability to choose what is RIGHT over what is easy.

ENERGY: the habit of vigorous activity.

FOCUS: concentrating complete attention on one thing at a time.

Controlling your actions begins by controlling your thoughts. Thoughts determine how you feel. Feelings determine how you speak. Your language determines what you do. What you do gives you your results. Your results determine what you believe, and that determines what you think.

And the only way to change your results is to combine the power of your heart and mind by developing these four characteristics:

WISDOM: combining your knowledge, experience, understanding and instincts to figure out the best thing to do.

LEADERSHIP: blazing trails for others to follow; a leader takes command and guides people.

CONSISTENCY: being reliable, dependable and persistent.

INTEGRITY: being honest and trustworthy.

Champion Dream Doers have a habit of combining the power of their hearts and minds to achieve their dreams.

This creates CONFIDENCE.

And confidence is the secret ingredient you need to DO what you DREAM.

Like Alex and Tyler, you can develop unshakable confidence by playing The Champion Creator Game. Visit www.UnshakableUnbreakableUnstoppable.com to find out how to start playing now!

Don’t forget to enjoy the story!

To your dreams,

Bonnie Jean

P.S. Don’t risk missing a day of the Dream Doer Crash Course or a chapter of The Dream Doers and the Summer of Secrets. Join the Dream Doer League now to get every crash course lesson emailed to you along with the members only link to the audio chapters.

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Aug 15

Dream Doer Crash Course, Day 13: The One Thing You Can Always Control

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***Featuring audio book Chapter 25 of The Dream Doers and the Summer of Secrets, a YA Novel about best friends Alex and Tyler who must battle bullies, face their fears and keep strange secrets the summer they learn to DO what they DREAM.***

(Note: Only Dream Doer League members can hear the audio chapters of this Amazon bestselling young adult novel, but joining is completely, totally, 100% FREE! Just fill out the short form on the right or click here to sign up.)

In chapter 25, Alex is devastated because the tournament did not turn out the way she wanted it to. She didn’t get the result she wanted.

But even though she couldn’t control the results of the tournament, she can control how she reacts to her loss. She can choose to be happy that she did her very best, and she can choose to keep practicing tennis.

Or she can choose to pout and give up playing tennis just because the results didn’t turn out the way she wanted.

The same thing is true in your life. No matter what happens to you, you can always control how you respond.

What you say and what you do is more important than the results you end up with. Because results don’t determine champions; the way you respond to results determines whether or not you are an unshakable, unbreakable unstoppable Dream Doer.

But losing the tournament isn’t the only challenge Alex has to deal with in chapter 25.

A series of strange events begin to unravel. But they start while Tyler and Alex are separated from each other: Tyler is on his family vacation in Colorado and Alex is home in Winston-Salem.

Without each other to rely on and talk to, they have trouble making sense of these events. Then things just get worse in chapter 26.

But you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to find out what happens in the conclusion of The Dream Doers and the Summer of Secrets.

Until then, enjoy the story!

To your dreams,

Bonnie Jean

P.S. Don’t risk missing a day of the Dream Doer Crash Course or a chapter of The Dream Doers and the Summer of Secrets. Join the Dream Doer League for FREE now to get every crash course lesson emailed to you along with the members only link to the audio chapters.

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Aug 14

Dream Doer Crash Course, Day 12: You Can Always Find a Way to Win

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***Featuring audio book Chapter 24 of The Dream Doers and the Summer of Secrets, a YA Novel about best friends Alex and Tyler who must battle bullies, face their fears and keep strange secrets the summer they learn to DO what they DREAM.***

(Note: Only Dream Doer League members can hear the audio chapters of this Amazon bestselling young adult novel, but joining is completely, totally, 100% FREE! Just fill out the short form on the right or click here to sign up.)

Alex has been working all summer for the chance to play in a tennis tournament. In chapter 24, she finally gets that chance.

But she doesn’t just want to play; she wants to WIN. She wants to be the one who wins the most games in each set, and the most sets in each match.

At the end of the tournament, she wants to be the one who is the CHAMPION. The first place player. The one who gets to meet her tennis hero, Margaret Colle.

Once she starts playing, though, she realizes how tough winning is going to be. As she loses game after game in the first set, she’s going to have to dig deep to find a way to win.

The good news is that you can always find a way to win, even if you’re the underdog like Alex. The tricky part is that you first have to understand exactly what winning is.

In sports, winning is not just about the score at the end of the game. I used to think it was, though. I used to think the only way to be a champion was to win every game or match or sport I played.

What about you? What do you think about when you hear the word “champion?”

The athlete in me sees an Olympic gold medalist. Or the winners of the World Series. Or a state championship team.

In other words, the athlete in me sees a person or team who is better than everyone else they compete against. But when I started running marathons, I realized there was more to winning that just the score (or how fast I could run).

You see, I am not a fast runner. With my super slow Schaefer speed, I knew I had zero chance of being the first person to cross the finish line in my marathon race. So I wasn’t sure I should even run the race. Why would I want to compete in something where I had NO chance of winning?

Then I realized winning wasn’t about being first. Winning was about doing my best. As long as I finished that marathon, I would win. I would win because 26.2 miles was a longer distance than I had ever run before. And like Alex and her tennis tournament, it was always something I wanted to do.

I got to decide what winning meant for me. I didn’t have the talent or ability to be first, but I did have the ability to finish that long, challenging distance. Now I’ve finished FOUR marathons, and I ‘won’ every one because I did my best each time.

In other words, a unshakable, unbreakable, unstoppable champion Dream Doer is someone who pursues their dreams based on their own talents and abilities. A Champion Dream Doer understands that being a winner is about being your best.

Besides, when you think that winning is just about the score, it’s easy to think that you have to do whatever it takes to win, even if that means you have to cheat or hurt others.

If you play sports that way (like Zach does), you’ll behave that way in other things, too…like cheating in school to get the best grade. Or gossiping about a classmate to make yourself look better.

Champion Dream Doers, however, would rather lose than compromise their integrity by cheating or hurting someone else. Because they know that being the best they can be is what winning is all about.

And when you always give your best, you always find a way to win.

Then no matter what challenges come your way, you have the confidence you need to overcome those challenges.

Tomorrow, Tyler and Alex will have to face some tough challenges of their own. Will they be able to overcome them?

Until then, enjoy the story!

To your dreams,

Bonnie Jean

P.S. Don’t risk missing a day of the Dream Doer Crash Course or a chapter of The Dream Doers and the Summer of Secrets. Join the Dream Doer League now to get every crash course lesson emailed to you along with the members only link to the audio chapters.

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Aug 13

Dream Doer Crash Course, Day 11: Your Dreams Require Practice

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***Featuring audio book Chapters 22-23 of The Dream Doers and the Summer of Secrets, a YA Novel about best friends Alex and Tyler who must battle bullies, face their fears and keep strange secrets the summer they learn to DO what they DREAM.***

(Note: Only Dream Doer League members can hear the audio chapters of this Amazon bestselling young adult novel, but joining is completely, totally, 100% FREE! Just fill out the short form on the right or click here to sign up.)

In chapter 22, Tyler finally has a chance to live his summer dream. But he never would have had the chance without weeks and weeks of practice.

He had to practice thinking positive thoughts about his pitching, and he had to practice DOING the right pitching motions.

If he just thought about being a good pitcher, that wouldn’t get him anywhere.

And if he pitched without getting his mindset right, he wouldn’t make much progress.

He had to practice both thinking the right thoughts and doing the right things.

He also didn’t just practice one or twice. He worked hard day after day, even when he was not doing well. He believed that he would find a way to get better and live his dreams. He kept practicing and never gave up (for good, anyway!).

Like Tyler’s dream, your dreams require action, too. You can’t expect to dream something and have it true just because you want it to. You have to be willing and able to DO something about it everyday.

That’s why your dreams need an action plan.

To create an action plan, start by writing down one dream you want to make come true. Now that you know what you want, write down everything you can do to make that dream happen.

Got your list yet? Good!

Look at your list. What three things will make the biggest difference? Those are the three things you want to focus on doing because they will get you to your goal the fastest.

Since you know what you want and how to get it, go! Start taking action now and live like a Dream Doer.

Then tomorrow, you’ll find out if Alex is able to live her summer dream, too.

Until then, enjoy the story!

To your dreams,

Bonnie Jean

P.S. Don’t risk missing a day of the Dream Doer Crash Course or a chapter of The Dream Doers and the Summer of Secrets. Join the Dream Doer League for FREE now to get every crash course lesson emailed to you along with the members only link to the audio chapters.

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Tagged with: achieve goals • goal setting for children • young adult fiction

Aug 12

Dream Doer Crash Course, Day 10: How to Blast Through Your Fears

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***Featuring audio book Chapters 20-21 of The Dream Doers and the Summer of Secrets, a YA Novel about best friends Alex and Tyler who must battle bullies, face their fears and keep strange secrets the summer they learn to DO what they DREAM.***

(Note: Only Dream Doer League members can hear the audio chapters of this Amazon bestselling young adult novel, but joining is completely, totally, 100% FREE! Just fill out the short form on the right or click here to sign up.)

In chapter 20, Alex is forced to face one of her biggest fears: playing a tennis match against Alicia, Zach’s cousin.

The thing that scared her most was the idea of making mistakes. If she made mistakes, she would look like she didn’t know how to play tennis. And she would lose.

Nobody likes to make mistakes or lose.

Normalcy knows this. So he tries to convince you that mistakes are a bad thing. When you believe mistakes are bad, you’ll hold back and try NOT to make mistakes. But the more mistakes you try not to make, the more you mess up!

The truth is that you NEED to make mistakes. Doing something wrong is the BEST way to learn how to do it right.

When you learn what doesn’t work, you can change your approach and figure out what does work.

That’s why you should try to make as many mistakes as you can as fast as you can. Then you have to learn what you’re doing wrong and fix it. By trying to make mistakes because you know your mistakes give you a chance to learn, you won’t be afraid of making mistakes ever again!

So when you make a mistake, don’t cover it up with an excuse.

Normalites avoid responsibility for their mistakes. For instance, when Zach makes mistakes on the baseball field, he’ll find someone else to blame. He’ll say things like:

“The umpire made a bad call.”

“The sun was in my eyes.”

“I hurt my ankle.”

“The other team cheated.”

“I wasn’t ready.”

Because Zach never learns from his mistakes, he keeps making the same mistakes over and over. And he never gets any better.

But Alex and Tyler are Dream Doers. They face their fears by making mistakes. Then they accept responsibility for their mistakes, figure out what they did wrong and get better.

Tyler has spent all summer making mistakes with his pitching. Tomorrow, he’ll have a chance to learn from those mistakes and live his dream…unless Zach gets his way and steals Tyler’s dream of pitching in an All-star game.

Until then, enjoy the story!

To your dreams,

Bonnie Jean

P.S. Don’t risk missing a day of the Dream Doer Crash Course or a chapter of The Dream Doers and the Summer of Secrets. Join the Dream Doer League for FREE now to get every crash course lesson emailed to you along with the members only link to the audio chapters.

P.S.S. What about you? What’s your biggest fear you need to blast through? Join the conversation by leaving a comment below!

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