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.
It’s Find a Way to Do What You Dream Day!
To be trustworthy, passionate and focused, you must develop 12 core ‘champion’ traits. In previous posts, we talked about the four traits involved in being trustworthy: integrity, consistency, leadership and wisdom.
Today and for the next three weeks, we’ll talk about Dream Doer Rule #3: Be Passionate and the four traits you need to follow this rule: passion, enthusiasm, creativity and courage.
Let’s get started with one of the most exciting traits of all—PASSION.
Why should you express your passion?
When you express your passion, you feel excited, happy and special. So instead of keeping what you’re passionate about all bottled up inside, you need to find a way to express it. When you do, you free yourself to have fun and enjoy life.
What is passion?
Passion is expressing intense emotional drive and excitement toward any strong desire like your dreams.
But you can’t express your passion until you know what you want, why you want it and how to get it.
And you know you have real, true passion about a dream when you can’t forget about that dream even when you try to hide it or ignore it.
The great thing about passion is that it lives inside every person, including you. That means it’s your job to find what you’re passionate about, then DO whatever it takes to chase your dreams and live a life filled with passion.
How can you express your passion?
To help you find and express your passion, answer these questions:
- What is one thing I would like to DO? Why? How can I do that?
- Who is one person I would like to MEET? Why? How can I meet that person?
- Where is one place I would like to GO? Why? How can I get there?
- What is one thing I would like to HAVE? Why? How can I have it?
- What do I want more than anything in the world? Why? How can I get what I want?
What can you do NOW to express your passion?
If you could do something fun and exciting right now, what would you do?
The answer to that question is probably something you’re passionate about, so go do it now!
By figuring out what you want, why you want it and how to get it, you can find a way to be passionate and do what you dream.
Then the next step is to set your passion on fire. You do that by following the second part of Dream Doer Rule #3: ignite your ENTHUSIASM, which is what we’ll talk about next week.
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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Alex wanted to make her tears stop, but they kept leaking out of her eyes even when the nice boy with the blonde hair and brown eyes asked her to help him pick out a best friend.
Bad things were going to happen to her once she stepped inside that room. Bad things always happened around Zach.
She followed Tyler into the room anyway. She wished she could be like him. He was happy and excited about school. Whoever he picked to be his best friend was a lucky kid.
She wanted him to pick her, but he was a boy. Boys didn’t have best friends who were girls. And girls didn’t have best friends who were boys. At least that’s what she thought was supposed to be true about friendship.
Tyler would probably pick Zach to be his best friend. Then Zach would make Tyler do all kinds of mean things to her.
School was going to be worse than she thought.
The first thing Alex saw were four girls laughing and coloring at a table.
A boy with glasses was standing between his mom and dad talking to the teacher. Another boy was cry-yelling at his mom because he didn’t want to stay. A few other boys and girls were playing by the toy shelves.
And Zach, Anson and Clay were standing in the back corner of the room whispering and pointing at people.
“Who should I ask to be my best friend?” Tyler asked. “He’s gotta like baseball and he’s gotta be nice, so I don’t think the little kid in the glasses or the one yelling at his mom will work.”
Alex nodded. He was going to pick Zach. She just knew he was going to pick Zach. Then Tyler would never be nice to her again.
Should she warn him about Zach? Maybe this kid would listen.
“Hey,” Tyler said, “what about those three boys in the back? They look pretty cool.”
“No!” Alex swallowed. “I mean, um, I wouldn’t ask any of those boys, especially the blonde one. They live in our neighborhood. They’re not as nice as they look.”
“Really? Okay. I trust you.”
“You do?”
“Sure. What about that boy in the orange shirt that just walked in?”
“I don’t know him. He’d probably make a good best friend.”
“I’m gonna go ask. Thanks!”
Tyler ran over to the boy and shook his hand. Alex sighed. It looked like Tyler just found his new best friend.
“Little Alex. All alone.”
Alex choked back more tears at the sound of Zach’s whispered voice in her ear. The torture was starting. She turned her back on Tyler and faced Zach.
“What do you want, Zach?”
“I want you to do whatever I say.”
“Just leave me alone.” Her bottom lip trembled. She didn’t want to cry in front of Zach.
“Aw. Is little Alex scared? Are you gonna cry?”
Tears spilled down her cheeks.
Zach laughed. “It doesn’t matter if you cry or not. Nobody’s gonna believe anything you tell them about me. I’m too cute. Everybody always believes me. Even your mom.”
Zach stepped close to her and put his nose in front of hers. “I can pinch you or pull your hair or hit you and nobody will care. So you better do whatever I tell you to.”
Kindergarten was going to be worse than she thought. She just wanted to go home and hide forever.
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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!
