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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.
To be trustworthy, passionate and focused, you must develop 12 core ‘champion’ traits. Last week, we talked about unleashing your creativity.
Today, we’re going to talk about the fourth characteristic that comes from the heart and sets Champion Dream Doers apart from Normalites: COURAGE.
Why should you advance with courage?
You should be courageous because it takes courage to live your dreams.
You can be passionate and enthusiastic and creative, but if you don’t take that last step and advance toward your dreams with courage, you’ll always be too scared to break through your comfort zones and do what you dream.
What is courage?
Courage is taking bold action in spite of fear. That means that you move forward toward your dreams even when you’re scared. You recognize your fear, face it and deal with it instead of hiding from it and waiting for that fear to go away before you take any action.
In a nutshell, courage is faith. Without faith, fear wins. You have to believe that the next step you take—no matter how painful, difficult or challenging you think that step will be—you have to believe that step will give you the results you want: living your dreams.
And it’s always easier to be courageous when you’ve unleashed your creativity, which is why we talked about your creativity last week.
How can you advance toward your dreams with courage?
To help you advance with courage, follow these steps:
- Write down one dream you feel the most passionate about.
- Finish this sentence: I feel scared or nervous when I think about living this dream because ______________________.
- Answer this question: why should I chase this dream even though I’m scared or nervous? Then take the action that scares you!
What can you do NOW to be courageous?
Practice being courageous by doing something right now that makes you feel uncomfortable or scared or nervous. For instance, if you’re not used to telling your friends or family about your dreams, face that fear and tell them anyway!
The more you practice being courageous with simple things, the easier it will become to be courageous with bigger things, like taking action that helps you live your dreams instead of just keeping your dreams in your head.
Then next week, we’ll begin to discuss the traits you need to develop that help you become mentally tough. We’ll start with the first part of Dream Doer Rule #4: clarify your FOCUS.
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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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 passionate and the character trait of passion.
When you express your passion, you’re ready to ignite your ENTHUSIASM.
Why should you ignite your enthusiasm?
Because it’s like setting your dreams on fire. (Just to be on the safe side, I’m not talking about real fire. So please, please, please DON’T actually set anything on fire.)
With the kind of fire I’m talking about, you feel thrilled to be alive because you know that you get to live your dreams every day of your life and nothing is going to stand in your way of making that happen.
What is enthusiasm?
Enthusiasm is emotional energy that feeds on dreams, desires and goals.
Like I just mentioned, it feels like a fire burning inside you. When that fire burns hot enough, you can see it in your eyes and feel it driving your actions so everything you do helps you find a way to make your dreams come true.
It is passion that fuels that fire of enthusiasm.
How can you ignite your enthusiasm?
To help you ignite your enthusiasm, follow these steps:
- Write down one dream you feel the most passionate about.
- Write down five reasons this dream is important to you. (This is the ‘fire’ of enthusiasm!)
- Draw a picture of your dream.
- Now draw flames around the picture to remind yourself of the five reasons you wrote down in step 2.
- Put the picture someplace where you will see it everyday.
What can you do NOW to ignite your enthusiasm?
It’s hard to be enthusiastic if nobody around you knows about your dreams and the things you are passionate about.
So go tell one person you trust right now about your big dream. Let your mom or dad or brother or sister or friend see the enthusiasm in your eyes and hear the enthusiasm in your voice when you tell them what you want and why.
But no matter how much passion and enthusiasm you have, you’re going to face obstacles as you chase your dreams.
However, when you follow the third part of Dream Doer Rule #3: unleash your CREATIVITY, you can figure out how to overcome any obstacle standing in the way of your dreams. So we’ll learn about that 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
P.S. Have you signed up for your FREE audio novel yet and your FREE 14-day Dream Doer Crash Course? If not, CLICK HERE now!
