Are your dreams secretly preventing you from living the life you REALLY desire?
Most people have dreams, but their dreams are holding them back. Dreams aren’t bad in and of themselves. In fact, dreams are great.
They only become a problem when you use them as an excuse. When you tell yourself that you could never go after your dreams, or that you don’t have the connections, money, or talent to do what you deeply desire.
Most people use their dreams as an excuse.
What you think you have to do to realize your dreams is often not the right path at all, and the dream you have right now may not even be the dream you really want.
You don’t know all the possibilities that exist, so you cannot possibly know what the best life for you is, can you?
Why Your Dreams Are Holding You Back
I have dreams.
You have dreams.
We all have dreams.
The problem is that many of the dreams we have block us from seeing all the other possibilities available to us. We put on blinders and focus only on what we think is right and we miss everything else.
Before I started my online business and began doing what I love, I had a predetermined path in my mind, and I thought it was the only way there.
The problem?
I didnít think I could walk that path, because I wasnít good enough, I didn’t have the connections necessary, and I was scared out of my mind.
Or, so I thought.
When you look at successful people, youíll often see that they got to where they are in an unconventional manner.
What’s really going on is that the concept that we call dreams is holding us back by limiting our perspective.
We have no idea of how our dreams will manifest, or if the dream we think we want is the one we’ll want five years from now.
The solution is to think smaller.
What to Do About It
Keep your dream in mind, but don’t get too attached to it. Instead, I’d like to invite you to enjoy the present moment a tad more than you have.
You have your plans, and you have your vision, which is fantastic, but now it’s time to return to the here and now.
The way you do this is by focusing on what the next smallest step is that you can take toward what you want.
You will know what the right next step is because it will feel good. For example, today I woke up and felt like writing this article. It felt good, so here I am.
Now, beware that you will sometimes be afraid of your next step. Another example from my life would be if I was creating my next product.
That generally scares me because Iím not sure if people will like it. However, the problem is that the step is too big. I need to break it down into smaller parts.
When I do that, it becomes something like this:
- Come up with a product title
- Research and outline the product
- Fill in ideas in the outline
Even those steps are too big, but can you see where I’m going with this? Itís not the task that scares us, but our thoughts about it. When you break things down, you can see yourself taking action.
What If You Donít Know What Your Next Step Is?
If you don’t know what your next step is, do nothing until you feel compelled to act.
Whenever I try to force myself to do anything, it doesnít end well. I almost feel like thereís a divine timing to everything. Iím not religious, but thatís how it feels.
Instead of forcing myself, I simply allow myself to rest in that space of not knowing. Itís not always easy, and often itís frustrating as hell, but thereís not much else I can do.
I could try to force progress, but it would just make me more miserable.
Iím at a point in my life where Iíve realized that thereís no rush to get anywhere. All I have to do is to enjoy the here and now.
Happiness comes from within me, not from out there. No goals, accomplishments, or dreams will make me happier than I allow myself to be.
This realization isnít always present, because like you, Iím human. Sometimes I hate life and the perceived obstacles in front of me, but thatís just how it goes.
Some days will be better than others.
But it always comes down to what you do with them.
Henri writes at Wake Up Cloud, where you can get his FREE life-changing course right now:†Find Your Passion in 5 Days or Less. And if you liked this article, you may like,†21 Things You Can Do to Change Your Life Forever.
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