It’s Find a Way to Do What You Dream Day!
Finding a way to do what you dream starts with you being a person of great character. Being a person of great character involves being trustworthy, being passionate and being focused.
To be trustworthy, passionate and focused, you must develop 12 core ‘champion’ traits. So last week, we talked about the first part of being trustworthy and the most important character trait: living with INTEGRITY.
Today we’re going to build on that and talk about being CONSISTENT.
Why should you depend on your consistency?
When you become the kind of person who makes a habit of setting goals and taking action to achieve your goals, you can always depend on yourself to find a way to do what you dream. That is what being a Champion Dream Doer is all about.
What is consistency?
Consistency is being reliable, dependable and persistent.
People know what to expect from you day in and day out. You know what you expect from yourself day in and day out.
You develop habits that improve your life every day, positive habits based on the trait of integrity.
Warning!!! It’s also possible to develop negative habits that take you farther away from your dreams, habits like setting goals but doing nothing about them.
How can you depend on your consistency?
To help you develop good, consistent habits, ask yourself these questions:
- Who can you always depend on to help you when you need help, take care of you when you need taken care of and listen to you when you need to talk? How does that person’s consistency make you feel?
- Who are you not sure you can depend on to help you when you need help? How does that person’s inconsistency make you feel?
- How do you know you can depend on yourself to follow through with your goals?
What can you do NOW to be consistent?
To learn how to be consistent, start by creating a ‘morning success habit’ for yourself. What same actions can you do every morning to make sure you get your day started right?
For example, what time do you get up? What do you do right after you get up? What do you do next?
As part of your morning success habit, write down one thing you can do sometime that day to take you closer to your dreams. Then DO it!
By setting up positive Dream Doer habits like this, you’ll be able to depend on your consistency as you find a way to do what you dream.
In next week’s post, we’ll talk about the third champion trait you need to develop to follow Dream Doer Rule #2: LEAD by example.
Until next time, remember that you always find a way to do what you dream when you stick to your strengths.
To Your Dreams,
Bonnie Jean
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Welcome to another edition of “Behind the Scenes of The Dream Doers Series.”
The Dream Doers and the Summer of Secrets begins on the last day of sixth grade for Alex and Tyler and class bully Zach. But today’s flashback story continues a short series of the first day of kindergarten for Alex, Tyler and Zach.
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She couldn’t go to school. She just couldn’t. Why would her mom be so mean and make her go?
Alexandria Wilkins rolled over and stuffed her face in her pillow. School was a horrible, horrible place. She wouldn’t go. She just wouldn’t.
Zach would be there. All the time. That teacher wasn’t going to let her hide from him.
He was going to be able to bother her whenever he wanted. And everybody always believed him. They never believed her when she told them how mean he was.
She was the only one who knew the truth.
What if she went to school one day and never came back? Zach might lock her in a closet…or tie her to a tree in the woods near the school.
She’d be stuck out there forever with nothing to eat and nowhere to sleep. Her parents would try to find her, but they wouldn’t know where to look.
Her mom would cry and cry. He dad wouldn’t want to work anymore. They wouldn’t have any money for food. Her brothers and sister would starve. And everyone would wonder what happened to poor little Alex.
The tears squeezed out of her closed eyelids and soaked her pillow. She really wished her mom wouldn’t make her go to school!
“Alex, get up. You get to go to school today!” Her sister Jessie burst into her room and threw the comforter off Alex. “I know the perfect outfit for you to wear.”
Alex ignored her older sister and held on to her pillow. She didn’t want to look at Jessie. Not today.
“This white top with this pink skirt is sooo adorable,” Jessie said. “These sandals are the perfect match. After I get done with your hair, there won’t be a boy in that class who won’t have a kindergarten crush on you. Too bad mom won’t let me put make-up on you. Too bad she won’t let me put make-up on me. I’m 13 now. I think I’m old enough. Alex, what are you still doing in bed?”
When Alex didn’t move, Jessie rolled Alex over and took the pillow away from her.
“Give me back my pillow. I’m not going to school.” Alex reached for the pillow, but Jessie pulled her out of bed instead.
“You don’t have to be scared,” Jessie said.
Yes, I do, Alex thought. But Jessie wouldn’t understand. Nobody understood.
“I don’t know why I have to go. I’ve already learned how to read. That’s all you learn in kindergarten anyway.”
“You don’t go to school to learn. You go to school to make friends.”
“I don’t want any friends. I’m fine all by myself.”
“You’re just being silly. What about that Zach kid? The one who lives a few blocks over? He’s a charmer. He’s in your class, isn’t he?”
“He’s not charming. He’s mean. And I won’t go to school as long as I have to be around him.”
Alex started crying again and dove back under her covers.
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This flashback story continues next week with another edition of “Behind the Scenes of The Dream Doers Series.” So stay tuned!
To Your Dreams,
Bonnie Jean
P.S. In case you haven’t yet been in front of the scenes of The Dream Doers series, it starts with The Dream Doers and the Summer of Secrets. In this young adult novel, best friends Alex and Tyler are forced to battle bullies, face their fears and keep strange secrets the summer they learn to do what they dream. You can hear the whole “Front of the Scenes” story for FREE. Just visit TheDreamDoers.com and fill out a super short form. Enjoy the story!
