Are You Willing To Pay The Price To Fulfill Your Dream

Written on November 15, 2007 by Tezza

Thursday’s weekly guide to Personal Growth from 4EvaYoung.com

There is a growing obsession towards the mindless accumulation of riches, fame and power. It’s a travesty that there are people who know more about the lives of celebrities then they do about those who are truly making a difference in the world. If your highlight of the week is reading about another celebrity self imploding then it’s time to get a real life. It’s time to revitalize that childish wonder that is in all of us, that need to find meaning in our lives and have a purpose for our existence. Here are some ways to get your life positioned to enable you fulfill your dreams.

1. Be Willing To Ignore Everybody
“Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice” - Spanish Proverb

The more you strive towards success in any endeavor the more you will find that you fall into a very small and selective group. Most people are happy to stay where they are in life, they are happy with the hand that they have been dealt or they’ve decided that is the best hand they could possibly hope for. They have decided for whatever reason that their dream is too high a price to pay. That is why the rise to the top of most fields is reserved for the few while the area of mediocrity and averageness is over crowded.

If you are aiming to achieve your dream, you can’t be listening to the crowd. Opinions and advice given freely are usually of low value and it is important if you want to raise the odds for your success that you selectively listen to those who can help you realize your dream rather than your detractors who hope to maintain the status quo in order so they might feel better about themselves.

Sometimes though, if your dream is so original and unique, nobody is going to understand you. They will tell you all the reasons why it can’t be done, why you must have lost your mind or why it won’t work. These are those moments where you have to ignore everybody and follow your instincts. Doom sayers are always on the ready to tear you down, but a great leader is one that stands above the crowd and is willing to follow their conviction in spite of all opposition.

2. Focus On Your Journey Instead Of Everybody Else’s
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.” - Albert Einstein

We have all been guilty of being impressed by someone else’s journey. We probably don’t even know most of them since they are usually media portrayed stories of someone who woke up a millionaire, or a fat guy sitting on the porch of his big house or some other headline grabbing story. If you only knew that many of these stories were carefully crafted public relations campaigns orchestrated to sell you and get you to part with your hard earned cash then you’ll be less inclined to believe the hype.

So save yourself the headache, anguish and stress of trying to keep up with these fictitious, over blown stories and stick to your journey. You have been endowed with your own unique gifts, talents and abilities so why covet someone else’s when you have so much untapped potential within you right now. If your dream isn’t to start up a company, write a book, travel the world or whatever else you see everybody else doing then don’t follow it, follow instead what your dream is.

Don’t start a business just because you see everybody else making money doing it. Don’t travel just because everybody else has seen more of the world then you have. You will find it so much more liberating when you are calling your own tune and making your own way.

3. Put In The Effort And The Hours
“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” - Colin Powell

Success is a long road forged by your effort. If achieving your dream would be easy why are you still dreaming about it, would you even appreciate it as much if it was handed to you on a silver platter today. Adversity and hard work enables us to truly soak in our achievements and value what we accomplished. Just because someone makes it look easy doesn’t mean that many long hours wasn’t invested into it. If you dream is important enough to you then you need to be willing to put the effort in.

Someone gifted by natural ability, talents or network but not willing to work hard is like owning a Ferrari but leaving it in the garage. If that isn’t you then don’t despair. The road to success is littered with people with talents, gifts, networks, money but who never realize their dream. Choose to be the other fellow regardless of your gifts or lack thereof to just decide that you will pay the price to make your dream come true.

4. Dream Something Worth Talking About
“We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.” - Woodrow T. Wilson

If your dream is about collecting material rewards like that fancy car or that big house then you aren’t dreaming big enough. If your biggest dream is material then you are missing out on some real magic in your life. Dreams are about inspiring you to become someone better than you were when you started. The reward is not in getting something but what it makes of you in the inside. Your journey to make your dream come true should inspire your spirit from the deepest recesses of your soul. It should make you feel alive not just for a fleeting moment when you make an accomplishment but from the very moment you breathed life into your dream.

The day will come when you will look back on your life, see the dreams you have accomplished and ponder on the what-if’s of the dreams lost and forgotten. What you hopefully want is to be in a position to have achieved dreams worth talking about and what it made off you. If all you have to offer to the world is the accumulation of stuff then you aren’t dreaming big enough.

5. You Are Responsible For Your Dream, Nobody Else Cares
“Responsibility is the price of greatness.” - Winston Churchill

Only you are the keeper of your dreams, only you can bring life to it and only you can make it become reality. If you are waiting for a certain person to come into your life, if you are waiting for a certain job or money, maybe your waiting for the specific alignment of events in order for your dream to come together then you are only preparing for your own disappointment. Nobody is going to care about your dream as much as you do. Everybody else is too busy trying to take care of their own lives and trying to hold onto their own dreams.

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