Living the Dream Life
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Think big. Reach for the impossible. Your new life is waiting to be lived to your fullest. Your dream job will blend in perfectly with your new life.
Are You Letting Money Limit Your Dreams?
In the real world, playing a similar game of “monkey in the middle” with your career usually leads to a High Noon showdown pitting your desires for personal fulfillment through your work against your material needs for a higher paycheck where ultimate victory is utterly impossible-more commonly referred to as “Hired Gun Syndrome.”
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What do you want to accomplish? Make a list and include goals and gifts you would like to achieve or give yourself (large or small). This is your celebration page to be used throughout your transformation of finding your dream job or turning your current job into more fulfilling work.
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What if you decided to take charge of your own life and make your own change? What if you chose to rise above circumstance and make great things happen for yourself? There may very well be many negative circumstances or events happening in your life at the present moment and there may be nothing you can do to change them. However, you can change your attitude about it and find out exactly what a powerful force that can be.
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In our non-stop technology-driven society we have controls for almost every circumstance or situation. Unfortunately, the most necessary control missing from most 21st Century lifestyles is what I like to refer to as Commitment Control.
Create Space for Things That Matter Most
In order to be able to focus on what is important to you, it’s necessary to simplify your life. Why? When you clear space to make room for what is important, the right things will come along to fill that space. For you to truly create the life and the business that you want, it’s vital that you make this space in your life. You have to be able to say no to others to allow time to say yes to yourself.
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At the 1980 Olympic Games, a ragtag squad of college kids from the United States went up against the legendary Soviet Union hockey juggernaut and won. With the world watching, the US team underdogs rose to the occasion, prompting broadcaster Al Michaels’ now-famous question: “Do you believe in miracles?
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Quite simply, getting “what we can’t have” or “what we truly deserve” involves saying YES to what you most want from your current job or to create your dream job. Most importantly, is to remain open to imagining all the possibilities and tangible realities you’ve never experienced before.
Guiding Principles: The Dream Life Path
The common pattern for most people is to keep choosing different jobs in different industries. Eventually, they becoming tired of looking for a new career or job. The answer to their frustration is to live their life from a principle-centered place.
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First, you need to realize that you are a powerful person who has something to give to the world. Then, you need to take that sensation of being powerful, and transform it into reality in your life.
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Have you ever noticed how quickly time flies when you are actively involved in something you’ve taken a new interest in? Your curiosity draws you along as you make new discoveries and you become completely absorbed. It’s important to take action on anything that piques your curiosity for it has the potential to lead you to new discoveries about yourself.
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Each and every time you put your own goals on the back burner for the priorities of others, it becomes easier to put off making the decisions that will truly make you happy. In order to help you break this dead-end cycle, here are the Top 10 Obstacles to Honoring Yourself
Nobel’s Prize: The Power of Intention
Because of his sacrifice and tremendous willingness to change, it is the Nobel Prize and not his explosive inventions, that Nobel is remembered for today. When Nobel was at his most “successful,” he was working against life and against peace. Then he realized what he would leave behind if that were all he did, and he gave the last part of his lifetime to turn his legacy in another direction.
Not What You Do, But Who You are
What is good enough? Is it a particular title or salary or is it a deep satisfaction with who you are and what you do? How often do you judge people by what they do and thus limit yourself to potential dream job opportunities and prevent yourself from accepting them for who they are?
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We’re obsessed with getting more ’stuff’: more money, monster houses, bigger cars to drive, endless gadgets, bigger serving sizes of fast food and more. It’s making us all greedy, discontented and selfish. We’re wealthier and have more things than ever before and yet, people are unhappy than ever before.
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The standard of perfection has nothing to do with the real you. Instead, it compares you to family members, friends, and society and forces you to keep up with the image you think they represent. You don’t allow yourself to explore, think, feel, and touch your own inner self. Like a deer caught in headlights, you become mesmerized by the desire to be what perfection wants you to be.
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In 2001, I competed in the USMS Short Course Nationals. I trainined seriously for more than five months in order to accomplish something I’d never done before: completing the 100-yard backstroke in under one minute. I know in the end that it was the time spent training and seeing my body and mental state become focused and geared towards the big event that proved to be my real reward.
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In the most basic sense, being powerful means completely fulfilling your potential and acting that you were meant to be where your talents and character have taken you. While on the other side, is the fear of being powerful, where you reach a level of achievement outside your comfort level where you begin question to whether your talents or character can sustain your success in the future.
Real Life Wisdom: Nothing is Impossible; Deciding is Difficult
This rendered me speechless for quite some time. Didn’t I know that? Why didn’t I know that? Because I’ve been “not deciding” for as long as I can remember because it’s hard. In those few moments, that woman had reminded me of a deep and basic truth so short and poignant that it almost is unreal. But I know that I will never forget it.
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Basically, what it boils down to is when my personal desires, comforts and needs are meant then I’ll find the time to help someone else. In fact when we get so caught up in our own personal wants and needs we don’t even realize that we’re engaging in totally selfish behavior. Instead, what we need to do is to step back and take some time to evaluate what we spend most of our time and energy on and look at the tradeoffs.
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Greatness can come in many forms and for each person it is something different. For example, it can shine when spending time with your family or friends, while working, during telephone conversations or even washing the dishes. Look within yourself and let the greatness within you come forward. I know that I am acting out of my greatness when I am using my gifts and doing what I love.
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If you know yourself well, you’ve discovered your likes and dislikes. Continue to do what you enjoy and you will discover an island within yourself. It is at this point that your dreams will be closer than you realize. For most people, it’s a challenging journey to delve deep inside our belief systems. Discovery comes from hard work and exploring your own essence.
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Being clear on what you want. Having no doubt about what you want. Unshakable means that you are so clear and confident about your direction and where you want to go or what you want to do that you seem unshakable.
What’s Your Excuse for Living?
When we get so good at doing something only for the money we run an even greater risk of getting trapped in a comfort zone that does not mesh with our greatest passions because what we are good at is not necessarily what we are meant to be doing.
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When you began to view yourself as an endangered species with only a limited number of hours and resources at your disposal, answering the question of why you did not become the fully active, realized person that only you had the potential of reaching, becomes unthinkable.
Your Dream Job Is Only A Smile Away
Whether or not he actually liked the job never came up. It was his job to be of service and to smile and make people happy and he took that responsibility very seriously. But, he was smiling not only for the customer but for himself. I’m sure that his work didn’t really feel like work but felt more like play because his attitude was so incredibly positive towards it.
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