An Update On My Dreams

Back in 2011 I wrote a book that was eventually called Are You Living or Existing? 9 Steps to Change Your Life (affiliate link).The book started off in the self-publishing world but was picked up by my publisher, Sound Wisdom Books.

That book, and my first book sold well, and were the driving force to creating this online business. The book is the blueprint I used to go from a life of existing to a life now that seems like a dream.

Up until four months ago I felt a little bit like a fraud. While I’ve been busting my butt working on my dreams, I still wasn’t fully living them. In the book I talked about three main topics: my weight, my work, and where we lived.

I had conquered the work part when I was able to leave a job I hated to write, speak, and coach full-time at the beginning of 2013. My weight has been an up, and down battle.

I had done well and lost some weight, only to gain it back. On June 17th of 2013 I got fed up and decided to finally get rid of the weight once and for all. Since that date I’ve lost 170 pounds. I’m 10 pounds away from my dream weight. I just wrote about it for the amazing website Mind Body Green.

That’s two of the three things I wrote about in the book. The third was moving to Maui. This one stressed me out a little. We talked and talked but had no definite plans.

We finally got serious about moving to Hawaii and planned out the move in May of 2013. We started looking at the cost, and got a little sticker shock. How can people really afford to live here??

The cost was so high that we started to look at moving to the Big Island instead of Maui. After some long talks, and a hard look at numbers, we agreed that Maui was our dream.

As you may know we officially moved here to Maui on April 8th of 2014. This was the last piece of the puzzle for us. Everything I talked about in the book has now come to pass. I wrote about the move for the Huffington Post.

This last piece took the wind out of the sails of my major hater (sorry). I can honestly tell you it was worth the entire struggle. Life here is better than we expected. We absolutely love it here.

So to update you on my dreams, I can tell you that I hit every major goal that I set. I have since worked on new goals and I’m shooting for the stars. I now know nothing is impossible.

You can do it too

I wanted to update you, but more than that I want to encourage you. We struggle so hard for our dreams, and we wonder if it’s worth it. The answer is 100% yes.

It took the death of my father to really help me understand how short life truly is. We all know this, but do we really know it? Look at how fast this year has gone already.

Look how fast your kids grow up. They were just in diapers, now they’re teenagers with an attitude. Life moves fast, and time is the one resource we can’t get back.

Chase that dream, and don’t do it tomorrow, because you might not have a tomorrow. Once you make it you’ll see that the struggle will have been worth it.

We have four months left in this year, plenty of time to give your dream one last push. You may not be where you want to be right now, but that’s ok. As long as you keep taking action, you will make your dreams your reality. The key is to not give up!

Give us an update on your dream. How’s it going?