Too often we hold onto our dreams as something to be attained in the future. Something that we'll get 'one day' when everything else is right. When we've made enough money, when we don't have to work so hard, when we are not so busy, when the kids have grown and left home, when we retire.
It takes courage to take action today for the things that we want tomorrow. It means stepping out of our comfort zone and stepping into entirely new territory. No, it's not easy but then nothing is easy and somehow when we set our minds to it.... we DO accomplish it.
Remember how hard it was in the beginning to learn to drive a car. But you had a goal... you wanted your license.
If we knew how hard it would be to raise children before we had them... I mean if we really sat down and studied the ins and outs... we probably would have put having children on the back burner too. But we don't. We go ahead, take action and do it today anyway, trusting that we'll develop all the skills we need as we go along.
Achieving our dreams and goals is much the same. Okay so you have a dream. Let's say that just like me your dream is to retire while you are still young enough and fit enough to actually enjoy your retirement. While you are still healthy enough to travel, to fly, to take plunges you've never done before. Well, to achieve a dream like that, at some point, in going to require a decision. The decision to step out of your comfort zone and well and truly into the unknown, unchartered territory of providing for yourselves without the security of a traditional job. You may not have investments to fall back on. I didn't. In the end, for me it came down to "do I want to be at the mercy of my boss indefinitely, or do I want to hit the road in my motorhome now, not later, and enjoy all the beauty my country had to offer, all the time freedom and all that extra time with my husband, before we both became subject to health constraints.
It was scary, but many years ago I'd read the book "Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway" by Susan Jeffers and so I fell back on that. I started planning what action steps I needed to take to make my dream a reality. I set a target date and from then on I knew that my life would be mine. For better or for worse, I was now ready to meet it head on and take whatever challenges it sent my way. I'd raised five children after all, so I was used to challenges.... these would just be a different type of challenge.
You know what, I took that plunge last September 09 and I haven't looked back since. Life on the road in my motorhome is everything I thought it would be. It's not without its challenges, but I meet every one head on and I learn from each one. At the end of the day it came down to "taking action".
I took action that day and created my tomorrow and have never felt more free, more in control of my destiny than ever before. I am living my dream and helping others live theirs in the process and I couldn't be happier. There is such an immense satisfaction in knowing that I did it. I broke from the "norm" of what society expects of us, and I did things my way.
Wendy Clarricoats Personal Development Coach & Expert Writer http://www.freedomkiwis.com
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Saturday, March 6, 2010
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