December 5, 2012

 ”If you don’t have a dream,
how can you have a dream come true?”

 Jiminy Cricket

Do you have dreams of what you want or could be in life? Dreams that maybe started when you were a child or a seed that was planted when you read a book or watched a movie or as you got older your eyes were opened to a possibility? I know that I have.

I ask “Are you truly living your dreams?” I would venture a guess that less than 1% of the population lives their dreams. Why is that? For me it all boils down to fear, yes FEAR! Fear of what people would say, financial security, alienations from family and friends and just not knowing what or how to make my dreams come true. Yet there are people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs who have lived their dreams. You can join their ranks by following three simple steps. 1) Believe, 2) Declare, 3) Surrender.

Belief in your dreams is the first step. Without this belief your fears rule your actions and before you start you have already created the outcome that your dreams are not worth pursuing. A basic example of the power of belief is people have a belief or believe that if they go to work someone will pay them so that they can eat and have a place to live. Pretty simple and for the most part it works, so if this works why can’t you just believe in you dreams and have them succeed?  I submit, the missing piece is we are NOT WILLING to believe! What do I mean by ‘Willing to Believe’? You don’t have to committed or even do anything. Just to be open to the possibility.

Before a dream can live there has to be someone willing to believe in it and since we are talking about your dream, you are the one to become willing. This can be very scary because of all the fears we talked about, what will people think, money, family etc.  But, remember this is just willingness. You haven’t committed to anything or even really done anything. If you are having trouble, try this on, be willing to be willing.

At this point you have create a space where the dream can be a possibility, you are now ready to take the next step.

Next is to declare your dream as a possibility. You may be saying to yourself “what good will that do? “ Let me give you an example of the power of declaring, our country didn’t not exist until the founding father created The Declaration of Independence. Their action was to declare a dream as a possibility and from this the greatest nation in the world was born.

Now take your dream or one of your dreams and declare it. One of my dreams is to be a motivational speaker; this is how I declared that dream. “The possibility I am creating for myself and my life is the possibility of being a motivational speaker.” Wow! That feels good just to tell you my dream.  The power is that it now exists as a real possibility not just as a dream.

All that is left is to surrender. WHAT?!? After all THAT he wants me to surrender? Surrender what and to whom?

Now just take a deep breath and put the weapons away.

Let me ask you a question, how has living your dreams been going with you in control?  If they are truly going great then you already understand surrender. You must give up control and turn it over to your higher power or as I call it God. This is not religious; your higher power can be anything. Mine is the Cosmic Muffin and you are welcome to use it. The point is to get you out of the way. Once you have become willing to believe in you dream and declared it, the universe creates what is necessary to have it come into fruition. If you think you have to control it you will only mess it up. Get out of the way, surrender and be available to do what shows up.

Your dream should come naturally and feel right. Unlike at a job, you are not doing it for someone else so they can fulfill their dreams, if you are it is not your dream.

Now if you have honestly done these three simple steps your dream will show up. Remember you just have to become willing to believe, declare your dream as a possibility and turn it over to your Higher Power.  Now a word of caution, be careful of what you ask for, you just may get it.

Thy will not mine be done.