I Can’t Chase My Dreams Because My Cats Stuck In A Tree

Two years ago I was fed up with my business, I just wanted out. The customers were driving me nuts, the company was doing it’s best to give me a heart attack.

I was all fired up to start my career as an author and immediately started writing. It felt good to tell people I was writing a book, I felt like a champion just for having the idea.

You know how that goes, right? It was a few weeks later when I picked up another market for my business, we would now do work in Illinois.

I was now a multi-state business owner, so who needed the writing thing? Authors don’t make any real money anyways, right?

What I was really telling myself was I didn’t want to put in the hard work it would take to be successful.

It took almost a year to finally get fed up enough to take some real action. That multi-state business owner thing turned out to be a real bummer, always some kind of an issue. More than that, I realized that my true calling was to make an impact in this crazy world, to actually contribute something positive.

Where are you at in your life right now?

Our work and our life was never meant to be a full of hardship and struggle, we are meant for so much more than we let ourselves believe.

When you think about your work, your business or your dreams, do you come up with reasons why you can’t have more?

Do you come up with every reason why something won’t work before you’ve given it a chance to work?

It’s time to get real honest with yourself, there’s always going to be a million reasons to not pursue a life of true fulfillment, there’s never going to be enough time to work on making your passion a reality.

Here’s the thing though: you’re running out of time that you will never get back. Before you know it you’ll be at the end of your life looking at a life full of regret and unfulfilled dreams.

I beg you to take some kind of action

It took a year for me to experience something so extreme I had no choice but to pursue more. I finally got honest and saw what those “valid points” I told myself really were: excuses to not make the difficult decisions.

I’m not with you so I don’t know what you all have to go through in your life, but whatever it is there’s always a way.

What does that mean?

It might mean getting out things that you enjoy, like TV. Did you know the average American watches 4 hours of TV a day which equals up to 13 years of their life, insane?

What could you do with the extra time you watch TV? How much sooner would you get closer to your dreams with all that extra time? As Dave Ramsey says, I have been there, done that and have the tee-shirt to prove it.

I used to be a TV addict but realized that my dreams were far more important, do you realize that?

Truly living your life

The travel has been a little nuts this year, always being gone every week, next year I’ll be more strategic about it.

Right before I spoke

However, I’m living out my dreams and one of the perks is hanging out with friends met online. I spoke in L.A. this past weekend and had the honor of having Dan Blackhear me speak.

Dan and I hanging out

We got to hang out all day after I was done and not only was it fun, I learned so much from him, this is my dream realized! Why didn’t I take action sooner? Oh well!

Whatever your dreams are, whatever passion and mission you have in life, I pray this post will help you take the first steps if you have been delaying.

If you have taken action but are feeling a little down, then I hope this post gives you hope. Whatever obstacle, you can overcome it and succeed despite of it.

The only way to truly live the life of your dreams is to stop making excuses and start taking action.

How are you taking action on your dreams?

P.S. I’m honored to have my very first magazine article go live. In the same issue is article’s written by Michael Hyatt and Dave Ramsey. I made the cover though Check out the article here