Bigger Dreams are Possible

As a child, I wanted to be a singer and an actress.

At some point, I stopped believing that my dream was possible. Someone told me that I wouldn't achieve it because I didn't have connections. As a child, I didn't choose to challenge that comment.

Today, I would have answered, "how can I make those connections?"

Unfortunately, too many of us even as adults allow other people's lack of belief in our dreams to influence how we see those dreams.

We decide to focus on the secure path, like going to college and getting a comfortable job. It's good. It did it. It's not bad, but do we ask ourselves - can there be something better?

Going to college, meant I wasn't going to work in a factory like my mom. I wasn't going to do a repetitive movement for 8 hours on an assembly line, and have my hands give out like hers did.

My mom was a single mom who worked in a cookie factory in Des Plaines, IL. She would come home smelling like cookies, and some days with the scent of white chocolate macadamia nuts. Those were my favorite. The best days for my sister and me were when she would bring some home.

You may ask yourself, how does someone end up working a factory job with the talents and gifts my mom had? My grandma immigrated to Chicago when my grandfather died. My mom was only nine and she was left to be raised by her siblings. My mom didn't finish her high school education.

When my grandmother came to the United States, my grandma worked cleaning the hospital of Cabrini Green. She had the discipline and was determined to make it work for her kids.

It's great to look back and ask ourselves - when did we stop believing in that BIG DREAM?

I don't want you to stop believing in your dreams! BIGGER DREAMS ARE POSSIBLE. We owe it to the people that sacrificed so we can stand today where we do.

Here are 3 principles that have worked for me in achieving BIGGER DREAMS, and they can work for you too!!!

Believe it will work out!

Too often, we allow our minds to travel to a world of impossibility. I tell my daughters this: you can only create from a world of possibility; if you believe it will happen, you will find a way.

I love the scene in Field of Dreams where Ray is about to lose his property, which at some point served as a property to host baseball games.?

In the movie, someone appears, telling Ray, "If you build it, they will come."

That sparks that belief in Ray again, and he risks it all to create the Field of Dreams!?

In your life, there is a field of potential dreams you can achieve. You choose the goals; more travel, diverse experiences, or creating a life that allows you to be there when your family needs you, or you want to enjoy each other.?

Your dream can be to launch or grow a new business, invest in women wealth building initiatives, own your home, or sell yours to be closer to the beach or where you would love to live.?

You will achieve every dream that you believe is possible for you!

Belief is not just a thought. If you connect with it emotionally and take uncomfortable action - your dream will come true!?

Feel the fear and DO IT ANYWAY, or as Nike would say, JUST DO IT.

In my high school years, I used to be very shy. Someone would talk to me, and I would turn bright red. If someone said a boy liked me, my face would turn tomato red. There was no poker face.?

One day, I decided that I was going to be a better speaker. I chose to show up at speech practice, and with time the redness subsided, and the confidence grew.

Persistence pays off!

If you just don't quit, you will win!

Too many of us gave up too soon! We get caught up in our present results, thinking we suck. Instead of believing it will work out.

Challenge yourself to pay attention this week to what you answer:

Am I committed to the dream or goal I set for myself, or am I just interested?

Commit, and you'll do what it takes. You'll fall and get up. You'll end up with low air on your tire and add air so you can continue biking towards your goal!?

If you doubt you will achieve the dream, you must stop yourself. You cannot let that doubt creep in!?

You will say to that doubt! I am achieving the dream because I am committed to the vision! I will do what it takes and get up as often as needed.

I will keep swinging that bat till I get it into left field!

In your field of possibilities, remember this critical last thing.

Go for BIG and BOLD Dreams

Don't let the world tame your sense of adventure. Too many of us have decided on things that created comfort for ourselves or others in our lives for too long but at the cost of our spirit.

Go for new dreams that scare you! Go for the goal that excites you, and you will figure out how to make it happen!

The craziest and most fantastic thing about trying a NEW DREAM is that you expand into an even bolder version of yourself without knowing how to achieve it!

Bob Proctor would say, "beneath you is that person that has been waiting to come out!"

"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and you'll find better tools as you go along."— George Herbert?

Go for BIGGER DREAMS, believe in them wholeheartedly, and don't quit until YOU ACHIEVE THEM!

I want to hear from you. Share below the answer to one of the following:

• Who do you have to thank for setting the foundation for the opportunities you have today, and why?
• What is one dream you're working on?

I look forward to connecting with you and seeing you continue to grow your dreams and money!