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Dream to Done

By on November 19, 2020
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By Sherri Lee

Growing up, I often heard the adults in my life tell me that I was a dreamer. They would say it like it was a bad thing. Life without dreams is meaningless. If the people around you are not telling you to get back to reality and laughing at you, then your dreams are not big enough.  Children have this gift to dream naturally, flawlessly, and continuously, but then something happens when they reach adulthood. Life gets complicated and the ability to execute on that dream is forgotten.

Women are the perfect example of this. We spend our days looking after everyone in our lives, while putting our dreams on hold for that time when life becomes less hectic.  Further, women have this innate ability to build the dreams of everyone around them, while putting their dreams aside.  Of course, we all feel the sense of accomplishment helping those close to us to realize their dreams. However, it is possible to have it both ways by simply reframing our thinking to include our dreams?

The simple act of dreaming is the basis for a meaningful life. The dream is where it all starts.  The dream becomes the foundation where with the right strategies you can make that dream your reality.  A dream with a daily drive behind it becomes unstoppable. If you are someone that has just endured a low point and you feel a sense of hopelessness or a lack of motivation, it is possible with a simple shift in thinking to reframe your outlook and change your direction.

Allow yourself to dream again. It will be the gateway for clarity and success. If you are the mom who has recently become an empty nester and you are looking for that new opportunity you need to dream. Perhaps, you are still raising children, but it is time to create a new opportunity for yourself, this is the foundation for you to do it.

There is nothing sadder than a woman who never lived to see her dream get to done and is saddled with regret.  You can create immense success, both personal and financial, using a very simple strategy that you can implement immediately.  The dream is the foundation, but the vehicle to get you there is drive.

But what about the woman that cannot even envision a dream for herself?  She wants so much more, but doesn’t remember how to dream. Take out a journal and start listing everything she is passionate about. What gets her fired up and excited to hit the floor in the morning?  Once her passions are clear, then it’s time to determine her strengths. Often it helps to ask those closest to us about our strengths.  As women, we tend to dwell on the weaknesses, not our strengths.

Passion combined with utilizing our strengths makes the dream far more attainable.  In addition to passion and strengths, she must think about who must accompany her in this dream. Children? Family? Partners? Pets? It helps to see our future surrounded by those we love.  The last two things that will help her to shape her dream is what finances are needed to see this dream through and what does the timeline look like to get from dream to done? Once all of these components are well thought out and written down, she will have a strong framework for her dream.  Now let us look at the drive because it is how her dream will get done.

Drive stands for these simple principles: Determination Resilience Integrity Velocity Effort

Determination is the ability to get up everyday and make consistent effort towards that dream.

Resilience creates a force field that is unbreakable making us rather walk alone, than deviate from our dream.

Integrity provides a good night’s sleep.  It is the hard work we do on a daily basis allowing no shortcuts.

Velocity is all about propelling forward at rapid speed once clarity has been found.

Effort is the consistency in which your daily choices support your dream.

Drive is all about taking control of that dream and implementing strategies to make it happen. Women may overthink the process and therefore stay stuck. It is important to have clarity around your dream and make it big enough that your efforts are worthwhile. It takes the same amount of effort to dream small as it does to dream big so do not hold back.

Drive takes discipline but once one dream is made into a reality, the motivation is easy to repeat the process with the next dream over and over. You have one life to live so why not start taking the steps to make it a life full of meaning and memories. Think of the stories you will share in later years. Women are some of the strongest and most innovative people on this planet and now is the time to share our gifts with the world.

 

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shSherri Lee is an expert counsellor and renowned in the field of self help. She’s a specialist in motivating women to succeed at everything they’ve been putting off and has helped take them from dream to done. Learn more at: https://sherrileeconsulting.com/

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