Following your dream is important (and yes, I know some of you are still trying to work out what that is!) and I also believe in balance, that doesn’t mean deserting your small children to follow some quest, you choose to be a parent, you need to be one until your little people are old enough to fend for themselves properly.
How do you follow your dream? Take a chance. Life is full of opportunities, it’s up to you to take that leap of faith in yourself. It’s not easy to do, sometimes that means a cut in income for others it may mean a big move, or undertaking university study.
You need to put in the ‘hard yards’ to MAKE things happen. Don’t just sit back and expect ‘the universe’ to provide everything for you at your doorstep or fingertips, you have to get off your butt and help things along. Me? I put a flyer up in the local supermarket and put a new one up every fortnight with my business cards attached. I also did letterboxing, went walking every afternoon with my flyers (that I had designed and printed myself) my water bottle, and my bum bag and trudged the streets with my print out map so I would know where I had been. I went and did psychic fairs (hated doing them personally) to push myself out of my comfort zone and do readings for people. I was scared shitless, what if this didn’t work? However, what if it DID. I took the chance because I knew that if I didn’t I would always wonder. And of course I had my GG (Gorgeous Guy) who believed in me as well and gave me a firm kick up the butt to believe in myself.
Don’t spend your life wondering, get out there and do the hard yards, need to earn extra money to support yourself while you’re living your dream? Clean houses, do ironing, wait on tables, don’t think yourself above any of it, because you’re not, it’s about doing whatever it takes to allow you to strive to be your best and to follow your dream.
Stop making excuses. As the saying goes ‘excuses are like farts, everyone has one and they all stink’. No more excuses, start taking the steps to be true to yourself.