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

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

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

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 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

Find where you belong?

Feel in control of your own life?

Choose your own future?

Live your dreams NOW?

Well…it all starts with a little thing called CONFIDENCE. 

To gain confidence fast, all you have to do is watch this FREE video and put this super simple confidence building formula to work for you.

In the Video You’ll Learn…

• Why Building Confidence is the Secret to Your Success
• What Simple Formula to Follow to Become a Confident Champion
• How to Put the Confidence Building Formula to Work for You
• What You Can Do TODAY to Start Gaining Confidence Fast
• How You Can Always Find a Way to DO What You DREAM

For INSTANT access, just fill out the form to the right.  (Or visit ChildrenIntoChampions.com, watch a fun preview video, then fill out the form on that page!)

Enjoy!

To your dreams,
Bonnie Jean

Welcome to another wacky, totally fictional interview of a ‘Weirdo Friend.’ Today’s story features lulilulelindia verickent, grammarnotarian. (Video of this interview is coming soon…)

When we chatted with Luli on Day 30 of the game, she realized she wasn’t passionate about her big dream to be a ‘travel around the world person.’ So she was hoping to find a big dream she could be passionate about. Before she started playing The Champion Creator Game, she was a Grammarnotarian who didn’t believe in capitalization or punctuation.

Let’s check in with her on Day 60 of the game and see if she’s learned anything about how to live her dreams. Remember, she doesn’t like punctuation or capitalization, so her quotes might look a little strange…

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lulilulelindia ive seriously got great news today i’m so seriously super excited to share my new big dream with you i figured it out by playing the champion creator game you know with those missions that seriously helped me tap into my passion ready okay remember how my old big dream was to be a travel around the world person well ill still get to travel whenever i want because im seriously going to make lots of money being a hair and makeup specialist

Bonnie Jean: Why did you choose to become a hair and makeup specialist?

lulilulelindia since im a grammarnotarian i seriously dont want to do anything that makes me have to use correct grammar thats why i seriously love dealing with makeup and hair. i get to seriously help other girls like me seriously find their own special style so they can seriously stand out and express who they really are

Bonnie Jean: How are you going to make your big dream come true?

lulilulelindia im seriously going to keep playing the champion creator game its helping me break down my big dream into smaller simple seriously easy to do goals that way i seriously dont feel overwhelmed and my dream seriously seems possible i seriously just have to do one little thing every day thats related to my big dream all these little things are going to add up and one day ill seriously be the best expert ever at like styling peoples hair how seriously awesome is that

Bonnie Jean: How do you want to end the Rookie Season? What’s your Day 90 target?

lulilulelindia thats easy i want to give one of my friends a seriously cool makeover so i can practice living my big dream i seriously cant wait because thats going to be so much fun seriously

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We’ll check back in with Luli in several weeks to see if she’s able to hit her Day 90 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. (‘Luli’ 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!

 It’s Find a Way to Do What You Dream Day!

This is “Find a Way to Do What YOU Dream Day.”

It’s not find a way to do what your friends dream.

It’s not find a way to do what your brothers or sisters dream.

It’s not find a way to do what your parents dream.

It’s not find a way to do what your teachers dream.

It’s not even find a way to do what your coaches dream.

It’s find a way to do what YOU dream.

To find a way to do what you dream, you have to start with rule number of the Dream Doer League: Be Yourself. That means you need to look in the mirror and be true to who you are.

What BE YOURSELF Does NOT Mean

Just so we’re clear, being yourself does NOT give you permission to do whatever you want whenever you want.

If you’re still living at home with your parents, you have to respect them and follow their rules.

If you’re still going to school, you have to respect your teachers, follow their rules and do the work they assign.

That’s all just part of being a responsible young adult. The really cool bonus is that when you respect your parents and teachers and other adults in authority, they’ll respect you, too and want to help you find a way to live your dreams.

What BE YOURSELF Does Mean

Now being yourself DOES mean you can choose how you think, how you feel, what you say and what you do.

It DOES mean you can choose to discover your God-given talents and use those talents to follow your dreams.

Whether you realize it yet or not, you are great at something. It could be a sport, a subject in school, a hobby you enjoy or a character trait you have developed.

When you figure out what it is you love to do AND have the natural ability to do it well, that’s when you are yourself. That’s when you have the power to find a way to do what you dream.

Being yourself is only the beginning of your path to unshakable confidence, unbreakable dreams and unstoppable success. You also need to be trustworthy, be passionate, be focused and be involved in order to find a way to do what you dream.

So in next week’s post, we’ll talk more about rule #2: Be Trustworthy.

Until then, remember, 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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