How To Chase Your Dreams With Screaming Kids, Work and Other Distractions of Life
We all have very busy lives
So you've discover you want to make changes and follow your dreams, the question is: when will you have time to work on it? If you're like me, 
you have kids, a busy job, bills to pay, Church functions to attend and oh yeah, you have to brush your teeth! Life can be extremely busy, so making changes or following your dreams takes a back seat. It seems like twenty-four hours a day is just not long enough to get everything done and still work on your dreams, so what can you do?
We can get easily distracted
With so many things to do in life and so many responsibilities, our dreams can take a back seat to everything else. Even when you have the time to work on change and you get ready to go, you remember those emails you have to respond to, or you want to just have a quick check of what's going on with Facebook. You know what I'm talking about, don't you? What about when you're really into the working on your dreams and your kids decide to start world war four? Your wife or husband comes up to you and says there are three things they "really" need you to take care of. We can quickly lose focus, get discouraged about not making any progress and then just give up entirely!
There's a danger in putting changes and dreams ahead of other things
So you've determined to make this path to your dreams work, no matter what. You have read great blogs like this one and you're going to devout a certain amount of time to change, where is this time going to come from?There can be a danger here if you handle things the wrong way. For example, what if you decided to skip your child's play "because I'm tired of not having enough to on my dreams, I have to do what I have to do" if this is what you tell your family, bad move! What about putting off work assignments because you have to change, what about skipping the gym, not cutting the grass, not going to Church on Sunday, missing things to make sure you work on changes? What if you ignored your spouse all night to focus on your dreams (I've been guilty of this). The end result is that you lose all your support for your changes and dreams, and we all need some support every now and then! You may love your dreams but you can make your spouse or family or friends, hate it!
Show your spouse, kids, and friends how serious you are about your dreams and changes
I've read and heard Jon Acuff say many times that you need to show your spouse how serious you are by taking actions steps, what does that mean? It means that you might have to wait until your kids go to bed to work on things, you might even have to stay up a little later than your spouse. It means making time in your life by taking time away from things that aren't important, how much TV do you watch? How much time are you devoting to social media? Look if you have a blog or a website you're going to have to have some time to get on social media to promote your work, I get that. However, what about the time you spend talking and looking at things that have nothing to do with your work?
When you get serious and use your TV time to work on your dreams, when you cut off playing words with friends or other games and you use that time to change. That's when people will start to take notice how serious you are about your dreams!
Learn how to work in the little moments
There might be times when you legitimately need to take time away to work on your dreams, there might be deadlines to hit, so you need that time. Most of our work will have to be at those late night moments, or that time when the whole family is watching some show. You might even have to wake up early to work on it, there's nothing like working on your dreams while you're the only one up and you have peace and quiet, those are great moments!
The distractions will never go away (get used to it)
I have some bad news for you; the distractions of life will always be there! The key for us as dreamers and changers is to learn how to work through them. Use those little moments, take time away from things that aren't as important, wake up early, stay up late. Show everyone how serious you are by taking action steps, and above everything else, savor the journey!
Life is short and before we know it, it's gone. We have to laugh even at the most crazy distracting, stressful days. Hey, those days will give us some great motivation!
How do you deal with distractions? Your help would be appreciated with a comment:
(P.S. as you work through distractions and use those moments, come back and let the rest of us know about your victories, let us know any tips that could help us)
