What’s your dream? No really what are your dreams? The biggest ones you have? What are the dreams that keeps you up at night? What things do you think of that just light you up? Sometimes I think we all have things that we want, but we are afraid to talk about. We think they are silly, or too different. To little or too big. We think they’re not doable, not live-able.
I wanna travel the world. I wanna be a Doctor. I want to be a lawyer. I want to be both. I want to save lives. I want to work hard and feel rewarded. I want to fall in love with my best friend. I want a big house that feels like home. I want to go to church EVERY Sunday and pray more often. I want to eat ice cream and not count the calories. I wanna to laugh more. I want to be a reason that people see goodness in other people.I wanna sing more and play the guitar often. I wanna write music. I want a blog people can read and relate to. I want to love and be loved. I want to be happy. So genuinely happy that even the hard days don’t alter my perspective of a beautiful life.
All these things I want, these things I dream about. Hard to achieve? Maybe some. Impossible? Hardly. We either stay dreamers or become pursuers. Honestly, it’s not easy. We all know that, but we can’t get there by keeping our dreams to ourselves. We won’t get anywhere by making our dreams smaller in front of others. I’ll admit I’m a culprit. Someone asks me what I want to do and depending on who I’m talking to I’ll say either a doctor or a lawyer, but not both. I don’t say both because I have a suspicion that particular person might ask something like “well that’s stupidly impossible why on Earth would you even try that?” But that’s just it. By not pronouncing my dream, what I want, I just let someone else take a piece of the life I want to create for myself. Don’t ever let someone else make you feel like you have to dumb down your dreams, or make you feel silly about what you want. It’s yours, and truth be told they probably wanted something too, but let it slowly fade and became the short answers of the questions they were once unwilling to fully declare their true answers to.
What a life we have. What a life you have. Own it. Own your big and small dreams. Your crazy wants and your vivid fantasies. Declare them out loud, to yourself and to others and when its harder some days than others say it louder. What you are willing to passionately declare is what you will be worthy to receive. You’re dreams aren’t small so you cannot be small. So I dare you, be big, be bold, and design a life you are proud to live. Declare a life your heart desires.
P.S. IM OBSESSED!
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