Are You Bold Enough to Share Your Dreams With Me?

I don’t know if Susan Boyle won that season (2009?) of Britain’s Got Talent, but I do know she became a symbol for dreams come true. Her appearance on that show made its way round the world via YouTube, and it was clear that Susan’s Got Talent.

Recently, I watched that famous clip again. When she first took the stage, the audience rolled their eyes at Susan Boyle’s dream to sing like Elaine Page, a diva darling of the UK. Their condescending attitude of “Yeah right, dream on, lady” was nipped in the bud when Susan started to sing.

Her phenomenal talent was revealed and the beauty of her voice stunned the crowd and wowed the judges. More importantly, she wowed herself. She allowed herself to dream.

Watching her in that magic moment gave me goose bumps all over again.

Susan Boyle faced her fear, took the stage, and shared her gifts. A dowdy woman who lived with her cat in a tiny village in Scotland brought a room of thousands to their feet (and to tears) with the gift of her voice. She now has recorded CDs, performed all over, including doing a duet with her favorite star Elaine Page.

Dreams do come true.

You don’t have to have a beautiful singing voice, go on television, or have “grandiose” dreams. You do have to be bold enough to dream. Whatever they may be, we all have dreams, we all have gifts.

When you get to the heart of it, our dream is to follow our heart.

That speaks to each of us in individual ways.

Have you ever voiced your dream and your well-meaning friends and family rolled their eyes and gave you that “Yeah right, dream on” reaction?

They don’t mean to hurt you. They simply don’t know any better. Most of us have been taught, one way or another, to keep our dreams to ourselves.

It doesn’t matter what your dream is, how big or how silly or how impossible it may seem. Let yourself dream it. Only then can you let yourself create a framework to make your life be a meeting of fact and what only seemed before to be fiction.

Dreams materialize often in baby steps. Do one small thing, and you will be amazed at what opens up. You will be delighted at how good and right it feels. That propels you on to the next step.

Not everyone has dreams of being a singer. Maybe your dream is to feel happy enough to sing at all.

Susan Boyle’s show stopping number, “I Dreamed A Dream,” includes the line “I dreamed my life would be so different from this hell I’m living.” Most of our lives are not exactly hell, but perhaps not the life we had planned for ourselves.

You can live the life of your dreams. I want to highlight, bold, and underline that sentence and use exclamation points! Your life can be even better than you allow yourself to envision right now.

What’s it for you? You can find a mate that understands you, believes in you, and supports you. You can get that job, start that business, achieve that goal, take that trip, have time for all you want to do.

Your life, every day, can be happy and peaceful and joyful.

Cut to the core, that is what most of us desire, peace, love and fun.

I work with women whose dreams include launching a dress line, becoming a writer, publishing a book, having a harmonious family life, being happy after loss, shifting their business to have more time for fun and family, having a fulfilled life after the kids have gone, feeling strong after divorce. I have clients who simply want organization and no more clutter.

Letting go. Losing the stress. Feeling confident again.

Isn’t that a wonderful life, a dream life – feeling calm and confident and having fun? Does that feel out of reach for you? It doesn’t have to.

Whatever it is that you want for yourself, the first step is allow yourself to dream it. I have met so many women who have settled or given up or are afraid to let themselves dream.

Is that you?

What is your ideal life? Picture it. Feel it. Jot it down.

For a dream to come true, you first have to dream it.

There are steps to take to get you there, and they are not as hard or as scary as you may think. The “hard” or “scary” part is to allow yourself to dream it.

That’s your joy assignment, the first step, dream. Grab a piece of paper and scribble what comes to your heart. You can write bullet points, you can write one sentence, you can write one word.

What is your dream?

Are you bold enough to share it with me?