Either take the steps to live your dream or let it go and bury it!
If you talk and talk about your dream and then loudly complain how it will never manifest, then you’re putting too much energy into a dream that will probably never come true. If you make excuses why you can’t share your spiritual gifts the way you want to, then you are wasting your time. Bury your dream and then go live your miserable life. But, just because you don’t think anyone will notice, doesn’t mean it won’t have a significant impact.
The world will suffer…
When you hold back your authentic expression, when you hold back your spiritual gifts, and when you hold back doing the things that light you up, then you hold back your piece of the healing this planet needs.
I get how hard it is to make a commitment to reveal your gifts. You probably have a full time job and a family that needs you. You probably feel way to tired at the end of your day to take any actions toward what would fill your soul. You probably don’t think that what you have to share matters. You probably don’t have enough money to do what you love, but that’s okay… We’ll struggle along without your contribution.
Why do you come to Divine Purpose Unleashed?
I hope it’s to become empowered to live your dreams, not just to pretend that you’re dreams are alive. When you read about all the ways to break through your barriers, I hope you make the changes to break through them, not just pretend that they’ll disappear. When you feel a stirring in your heart, I hope you listen instead of just admiring someone else who’s listening to their evolutionary impulses. I believe with every fiber of my being that you are the answer. I hope you come to Divine Purpose Unleashed to solidify your commitment to expression all of who you are.
Start taking action toward your dream, before they die!
If you remain in denial that your dreams will manifest without a firm commitment on your part and the actions that support that commitment, then your dreams are as good as dead. Please don’t let your dreams die. Please receive the support you need to take the steps toward your most highest authentic expression of the god force that lives inside of you.
If you’re truly committed, you’ll find a way. I’d like to invite you to find that commitment within yourself. Give yourself permission to have the desire and to let it grow in your heart. Give yourself permission to know what it is, even if you don’t have a clue right now of how it will look.
Do your obstacles feel too big for you?
It’s very possible that you have enormous obstacles. Your thoughts and beliefs might be your biggest ones. If they feel too big, then ask for perspective. Directly ask for an empowering perspective of your circumstances to be shown to you. I promise you that there is one.
Sometimes it looks like the Universe is telling you, “No.”
Mary Patrick Kavanaugh has been told, “no” a lot. In the course of a year her brother, father, and husband all kicked it. That’s right, belly up! What would you do with that adversity? Well, she wrote a book and then after 16 publishing denials, she decided she’d had enough and she buried her dreams. She threw her vision board, The Secret, and her manuscript all into a coffin and had a full blown funeral.
Who is telling you, “No?”
Take a look around your life and notice who is telling you no. Who’s feeding you all the reasons why you shouldn’t or couldn’t live your dream? I hope it’s not you! If you’ve buried a dream, go leave it’s eulogy at The Cemetery of Dead Dreams. If you want to hear Mary’s story listen to Michelle’s interview at Live Your Purpose Radio. If you want to resuscitate your dream, call me!
What will it take to let your dream grow?
What thoughts do you need to clear out? What behaviors do you need to change? What actions do you need to take? What support do you need? What people do you need to stop listening to? What doubts and fears do you need to banish?
Find a place in your heart and prepare the fertile ground for your dreams to flourish. Nourish your soul with the food of possibility. Give the Divine a way to express himself in this world. Your gifts and your authentic being is that expression. Clear your mind of all limitations that the Divine might not want to express through you. Clear your mind of all concern for how the Divine will express through you. The Divine knows how, all is needed is your willingness to get out of the way.
Written by CK Reyes - Life Coach, Facilitator and Cheerleader of your Wildest Dreams! Contact Leila using the tab above.
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Loved the interview that Michelle did with Mary Patrick. Can’t wait to read the book.
The first “Chicken Soup” book was turned down by 21 publishers before it was picked up and sold around 30 MILLION copies!
If she sells 10,000 on her own, publishers will take a second look.
On the other hand, there is always the possiblility that you are trying to race a -
three legged horse!
And it is time to give up that dream and look for another.
Corinne, I didn’t know that… 21 times? Well, I’m so inspired by Mary Patrick that can’t wait to see more of this ‘overnight success.’
I think there are lot’s of ways to live our dreams if we look underneath what we are wanting to do. Even with a publishing contract that probably isn’t really the dream. Sometimes we need to dig… a little. Perhaps the publishing is a container to fulfill something even bigger than that. Although, I wouldn’t turn down a contract to publish my book that will be coming out in the fall. I’d probably go get a wooden leg for my horse!
I think for me the most important thing is to be around positive and supportive people. There was a time in my life when all of the “friends” I had were ones that discouraged me from doing anything out of the box.
It made a world of difference when I got into a circle of friends that were not only supportive, but excited about what I was doing.
Carla, How did this make a difference? What are you doing now that’s different? Specifically, how do your friends encourage you today?
How did you make the shift of circles of friends? What made you change them? Was there an event?
CK,
The Negative Nancy’s were people that I grew up with. I think it was partly that if I was doing anything out of the scope of what they did themselves, they felt uncomfortable. I don’t think they consciously knew that they resent anyone being more “successful” than they were, but I think that is what it was.
Finding the supportive friends was pure luck. We were relocated and I basically fell into a circle of awesome women. Everything I am currently involved with started either with my Realtor (and first friend in my new town) or the mom’s group I joined after moving here.
Some of them are my cheerleaders and supporters in different efforts. Others are right there with me in project.
I still meet people that have the critical outlook, but now it is easier for me to recognize it. I have more guarded interactions with those types of people. My friends and confidants are the people with a similar outlook and mentality. We try to build up and create rather than criticize and tear down.
I think another key is that you have to be able to be excited and supportive of the success of others if you want to be successful yourself. I have seen so many people who tear down, tear down, tear down, and then when they take the leap themselves and launch a project or business that negativity follows them.
What do you do when You put 13 years and counting into your dream, had yet another dream you gave up for it and neither come true
What do you do when you have thrown away 13 plus years of your life for nothing, committment, hell I worked at living my dream 15 to 20 hours a day and what got for it in the end, wound up flat broke, desititute homeless and loser.
No the dreams of this world are really nightmares in disguise, why? Because by the time you realized you have deceived yourself its to late and you cannot get back the years stolen from you.
This is the bill of goods and the horshit the world sells a dead end road called a dream that really is a nightmare in disguies because you become a God Damn Slave to the illusion you think is making you real.
Joe,
I don’t know for sure, but it sounds like you haven’t had the support you’ve needed to take your dreams into reality.
There are many things that stand between us and our dreams. Among them are beliefs and perspectives that we hold as immovable. Coaching is designed to ask the right questions so that people can get the results they want for their lives. Oddly enough this process may take people in directions they never thought of.
Having someone on your side that can listen at deep levels is invaluable. A coach will ask the tough questions, point you to your own wisdom, sift through fantasy and reality issues, and hold you accountable for accomplishing what you want in your life.
Have you ever had that kind of support? I hear your pain… and I’m curious what your life would be like if you didn’t put so much effort in your dreams. Would you be any less angry? or simply regretful that you didn’t try?
How do you take responsibility for what you’ve created? and how do you take responsibility for your next steps in life? Get the support you need and realize that these years would have gone by whether you invested in your dreams or not. I choose the journey of going for it! and getting the help I need along the way.
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