BE...DO...HAVE...Not Sitting, Wishing, Waiting
We all have dreams. Dreams of becoming an author, an artist, a photographer, an influential speaker, a major league baseball player, a New York ballet performer, a world traveler, a successful business owner, an organic farmer...it’s an endless list... You dreams will remain just that...dreams of “someday, I’ll…” unless you learn the power of living these simple words: BE...DO...HAVE These three little words have the power to change your dreams into reality. BE the person you want to be. Act and think as if you are already the person you dream of being. DO something every day to move toward your dreams. Study, learn, train, change, apply... HAVE the life of your dreams. http://NakedHippiesRoadTrip.com
Notice these are action words that have some oomph to them. Not quite the same as WISH...HOPE...IMAGINE... those la-la words that float around in your imagination and keep your dreams inspiring and fun, but also keep them on the shelf for “someday.” Just recently I talked with a friend who was lamenting her frustration in being single. She longed for a relationship, longed to meet someone who would share life and love with her. She was thinking she should move to the other side of the country to find him...feeling that she had exhausted all the supply of men in her surroundings. I asked her if she had made space for a new man in her life. She raised her eyebrows and questioned the meaning of what I asked. I suggested that she stop parking in the middle of her two car garage, to make a space for his car. And, that she not sleep in the middle of her bed, but sleep on one side to make room for him? That she clear out room in her closet for his clothes and that her bathroom shelves have space for his shaving gel and razor. Create a space for him. Her eyes lit up and she got it – understood how she should BE the person who has a man in her life and DO something to make room for him. That conversation was two weeks ago...
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She made a beeline to me yesterday at our Sunday blues and bbq event at the river to tell me... that she did all those things I suggested and now men and opportunities for relationships are pouring into her life. She was giddy...and so was I! It’s all about how you are living your life. Are you living the right verbs? Are you sitting and wishing and waiting for life to change, waiting for that “someday... ” Are you daydreaming about a life of freedom, where you don’t have to answer to a boss... Are you imagining success that eases the financial strain you have lived with for years... Ask yourself what person am I being? Am I consumed with thoughts of lack and failure? Or, do I walk confidently each day, act as if I am already that author, successful business owner, dancer, athlete? Then ask yourself if you take some kind of action each day to move you forward to your dream. Do you spend time learning more, applying a new skill, acquiring more tools and training? When you change your wishes and hopes into concrete actions and beliefs, everything changes. Henry Ford’s wise words should be posted on the fridge or bathroom mirror where they can be read every day: “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always had.” http://NakedHippiesRoadTrip.com
It’s time to change. Time to switch things up, time to make a space for what you want. “Someday” won’t come until you learn this powerful lesson.
BE...DO...HAVE
About The Author: Trisha Barnes We’re Bruce and Trisha of the Naked Hippies Road Trip! We absolutely DO live life fully - gave up our house in the suburbs, got rid of tons of stuff and moved to the banks of the Missouri River to live at a private campground. (No, it isn’t a nudist campground!) It was where we started to take the steps toward our dream of living and traveling full time in our RV. We started out bare bones naked - nothin’ to our name except our tent and essential stuff - and now we're living full time in our RV! Got a dream? We'll share the Naked Truth about all the ups and downs we've experienced - lessons learned - and how we can help you live your dream now - not in two years, not in twenty years, but NOW! “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”~ Mark Twain