The Dream Doer League

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

Oct 21

What’s Zikrintember Up To?

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It’s Weirdo Friends Day!

Welcome to another wacky, totally fictional interview of a ‘Weirdo Friend.’ Today’s story features Zikrintember Onthom, no big dream yet. (Video of this interview is coming soon…)

We met Zikrintember a few weeks ago and learned she doesn’t know what her big dream is yet. Remember, she is a little shy. After all, she does have 11 older brothers and sisters and 43 cousins who all live on the same street as her family.

Before she started playing The Champion Creator Game, she felt overshadowed and invisible and unsure of what she wants.

Let’s check in with her on Day 30 of the game and see if she’s learned anything about who she is and what she wants.

*****

ZIKRINTEMBER: Ummmmm….hi.

Bonnie Jean: Has playing The Champion Creator Game helped you figure out what you’re passionate about?

ZIKRINTEMBER: Uh huh.

Bonnie Jean: Will you tell us?

ZIKRINTEMBER: Oh. Okay. Well…I learned I like to investigate stuff. I like to follow clues to solve mysteries…or do experiments to figure out how things work. So my big dream is to be a police detective, an FBI Agent or a scientist. I still haven’t decided.

Bonnie Jean: Why will you keep playing The Champion Creator Game?

ZIKRINTEMBER: I like belonging to the Dream Doer League. Nobody laughs at me even though I get nervous when I have to talk to people.

I also want to learn how to be a good goal setter now that I actually have things I want. This makes setting goals fun and easy.

You might find this silly…but my goal for Day 60 is to set a goal for Day 90…I’m done talking now. Can I go?

*****

We’ll check back in with Zikrintember in several weeks to see if she’s able to hit her Day 60 target. She does have a few weird quirks (which you’ll be able to see in the video of the interview that’s coming soon), but as long as she follows through with the missions, she’ll be able to find a way to do what she dreams.

Weird quirks or not, you can find a way to do what you dream, too. Life is really much more fun when you set goals and take action to make them happen. So…

Join the Dream Doer League. Play The Champion Creator Game. And DO what you DREAM!

To Your Dreams,
Bonnie Jean

P.S. Stay tuned for details about how you can play The Champion Creator Game. (‘Zikrintember’ may be made up, but the game is REAL!) Until then, enjoy listening to the entire bestselling young adult novel The Dream Doers and the Summer of Secrets by clicking here!

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Oct 20

What Happens When You Focus on Your Mistakes?

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Welcome to another edition of Unshakable, Unbreakable, Unstoppable Stories with Bonnie Jean.

Have you ever tried NOT to make a mistake but ended up making that mistake anyway?

I have. Lots of times. Way before I learned how to be an unshakable, unbreakable, unstoppable Dream Doer.

When I was growing up, I was very good at telling myself NOT to make mistakes. For instance, I remember an all-star softball tournament I was playing in one year when I was about 12 or 13.

It was the championship game, and we were up by one in the last inning. I was playing first base, and the other team had the bases loaded. But we had two outs on them. All we had to do was get one more out, and we would win the state tournament.

As the pitcher got ready to pitch, I bent down and got ready to catch the ball if she hit it to me. But all I could think was, “don’t miss it, don’t miss it, don’t miss it.”

The pitcher pitched the ball.

The batter hit it.

Right to me.

An easy ground ball.

As I watched the ball roll toward me, I kept thinking, “don’t miss it, don’t miss it, don’t miss it.”

Can you guess what happened?

That’s right.

I missed the ball.

It went right through my legs.

Two runs scored.

We lost the game and the championship.

The other team celebrated.

I cried.

You see, the more I told myself not to miss the ball, the more I hurt my confidence. Instead of being confident in the fact that I could catch the ball, I trained myself to be confident that I couldn’t.

Please learn from my mistake. If you want to boost your confidence, be positive. Train yourself to think of what you CAN do instead of what you CAN’T do.

To this day, I wonder what would have happened if I had said to myself “catch the ball, catch the ball, catch the ball.”

So how can you boost your confidence today? Think of something negative you’ve been telling yourself, then turn it into a positive. Focus on the positive point of view, and your confidence will begin to soar.

To Your Dreams,
Bonnie Jean

P.S. Please don’t wait as long as I did to find your unshakable confidence! No matter how old you are, you can be an unshakable, unbreakable, unstoppable Dream Doer today! To help, I want to give you three FREE gifts, which includes the entire audio book of The Dream Doers and the Summer of Secrets. To claim your FREE gifts, visit TheDreamDoers.com now.

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Oct 19

What Are You Passionate About?

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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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Oct 15

Behind the Scenes of a YA Fiction Series: “Zach Taunts Alex”

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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.

*****

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!

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Oct 14

What’s Ymara Up To?

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It’s Weirdo Friends Day!

Welcome to another wacky, totally fictional interview of a ‘Weirdo Friend.’ Today’s story features Ymara Ecrof Tency, best tv watcher. (Video of this interview is coming soon…)

We met Ymara a few weeks ago and learned her big dream (if you can call it that) is to be ‘the best tv watcher ever.’ Before she started playing The Champion Creator Game, she watched television on all six of her tvs anytime she was not eating, sleeping or in school.

Let’s check in with her on Day 30 of the game and see if she’s learned anything about who she is and what she wants.

*****

YMARA: I didn’t think The Champion Creator Game was going to be any fun at all. Having to do a mission everyday that made me read and write answers to questions sounded like too much work. I wanted to poof, be a champion as soon as my parents bought the game for me. I didn’t want to, you know, put any effort into it. I only started playing because my parents made me.

I’m glad they did. I’m learning I’m a more interesting person than a lot of people I watch on TV.

Bonnie Jean: Are you living your dream of being the best tv watcher ever?

YMARA: I am a good tv watcher, but being the best tv watcher ever doesn’t really give me a chance to be passionate about something. I’m not even sure what my passions are because I’ve been so busy watching tv that I haven’t had a chance to think about my dreams and what my strengths are and Dream Doer stuff like that.

My goal for Day 30 was to give away one of my tvs. But I gave away two instead. My neighbors were really happy. By Day 60, I want to give away two more, so I’ll only have two left.

Bonnie Jean: Why will you keep playing The Champion Creator Game?

YMARA: I have to learn how to be more focused and more active. And I can’t wait to find out what my big dream really is. If you need help figuring out what your big dream is or figuring how to live your big dream, you should totally play the game, too.

*****

We’ll check back in with Ymara in several weeks to see if she’s able to hit her Day 60 target. She does have a few weird quirks (which you’ll be able to see in the video of the interview that’s coming soon), but as long as she follows through with the missions, she’ll be able to find a way to do what she dreams.

Weird quirks or not, you can find a way to do what you dream, too. Life is really much more fun when you set goals and take action to make them happen. So…

Join the Dream Doer League. Play The Champion Creator Game. And DO what you DREAM!

To Your Dreams,
Bonnie Jean

P.S. Stay tuned for details about how you can play The Champion Creator Game. (‘Ymara’ may be made up, but the game is REAL!) Until then, enjoy listening to the entire bestselling young adult novel The Dream Doers and the Summer of Secrets by clicking here!

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