Believe In Your Dreams to Reach Your Destination
By Judith Parker Harris | April 20, 2010
Block: Lost Your Sizzle.
Buster: Take Your Dreams Off Hold.
In a recent LBN Report, Elvis Presley was quoted as saying, “When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.” He also grew up accomplishing his dream, certainly as a heart throb hero, scintillating singer and romantic lead in many movies.
Over the past few weeks I have sat across from many new clients who have lost their passion or sizzle for life. Our work always begins by reconnecting them to their dreams.
What have you dreamed and not accomplished? Are you stuck in a career that doesn’t satisfy you or in a relationship that isn’t working, or simply in a rut of being bored with your life? Do fear, anxiety and stress have you running in place like a hamster on a wheel?
If so, it’s time to reconnect with your passions? What are your passionate five? It should be easy for you to reel off five things you feel passionate about, but if you’ve lost your sizzle you may have to try harder to make a conscious effort to reconnect. Here are five things off of my Passionate list: My husband; Sharing my experience through public speaking and seeing the light bulbs go on in my audience members’ brains, Dancing, Travel, Busting Through Blocks.
Your turn. Write down 5 things you feel passionate about currently. If the way you make your living or spend the majority of time in your days does not show up on your list, you may need to re-career, or at least re-design what you are currently doing.
One of the positives for some of those who have lost their jobs during the economic downturn has been the discovery that they really wanted to do something else. Years ago, I was in the advertising business until health issues made me re-career into self-help, writing, speaking and consultation. What do you think I dreamed of as a child? I dreamed of speaking to huge, international audiences and changing their lives. Bingo! That’s my new career.
One client of mine spent years as an attorney and entertainment executive and hated it. Our exploration found she had a love for travel, a flair for turning interesting fabrics into enticing clothes, and a real sense of what women “comfortable in their own skin” wanted to wear. She started a successful design company, and everything in her life improved including her battle with weight and her relationship with her son.
Please take a little time to do a Passion Treasure Hunt in 3 easy steps.
1) Write down 3 to 6 things you dreamed of as a child.
2) Write down 5 things you feel passionate about now.
3) Connect the dots between your childhood dreams and current passions. Where they intersect or simply relate to each other, write down actions you can take to make the dreams and passions more a part of your life today.
The sure way to put sizzle back into your life is to: Figure out where you are in your life; Figure out where you want to be in your life; Take action to make that happen. The actions will be fueled by your dreams and passion. Hey, it worked for Elvis.
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