Dreams

My biggest fear is not fulfilling my potential. It sounds a little silly because how do we know what our true potential is. I guess to be more specific, I want to live everyday where at the end of each one, I look back and think, yes, I made that day count.


Unfortunately those days are few and far between, as I'm sure it is for most people. It's so easy to get caught up in life, and lose our focus and drive for what we really wanted to set out to achieve in the first place. I have had that experience where so many times, you look back and think wow, if I still kept that up - whatever it might have been - how good would I be or where would I be now!


One of my top outcomes is to become a successful published author. I keep thinking about being stuck in a job I hate and this drives me to pursue my goal. I keep trying to block my mind from the realities of being an author, which is that it's very tough to get published and be successful. I instead try and focus on just getting better, keep writing stories that move and inspire me, continue to read as much as I can and learn from the best. There's a saying: Whoever you surround yourself with you become, and since I don't really know any writers personally I try and keep up to date on my favourite author interviews, release dates and anything else I learn from them that keeps my focus on writing at its peak.


People become good at something because they immerse themselves in it. It's not all luck or purely talent, of course you need both of these things but without that work ethic, then what can possibly blossom from that? And why isn't work ethic there for a lot of people in their chosen dream that their pursuing? There isn't a strong enough WHY. Usually the conversation in their head is "I'd like to achieve that... That would be nice if I was able to get that someday."


If you're one of those people who feel like: "wow, I do that," then look at why you're doing what you're doing. Do you have a compelling vision, are you modelling someone who has already achieved and taking on board their strategies and beliefs. Even though it may sound like I do this stuff, with the way I'm blurting this stuff out, I don't always, not consistently and perhaps me writing this here is about helping myself as well as you. 


I just wanted to touch on a few distinctions that I've learnt - mostly from Tony Robbins (A strategist) - and share in the hope, it triggers something new in me as well as you. "We're drowning in information and starving for wisdom." - Tony Robbins. This is so true, how much information is out there that really benefits us... Hmm, I'll let you do the maths on that one.


Feel free to post comments on your mission, pursuit of dreams / outcomes in your life. Would love to read about your journey too.


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