Take action on your dream – Implementation by Megz

Dreams take time, patience, sustained effort, a willingness to fail, if they are ever to be anything more than dreams.  – Bryan Linkoski

Don’t let this opening statement be the reason to hold you back from following your dream.

Share your Vision (but be careful about who you share it with): You have come so far. You have actually done the not so glamorous job of drawing up your vision, defining your goals, creating a roadmap/ timeline on how you plan to reach there. Now is the time to share it with others. Why? You need to share your vision for the following reasons, and then some more:

To make the thinking concrete and achievable: By articulating our vision, we internalize our commitment, begin to know it, and see the reality and flaws our thinking.

To attract your dream team: As we discussed in the previous post, you need to seek out clues. The best way to attract your clues is by sharing your dream with others.  It will attract and retain the employees, vendors, partners, and customers aligned with your values and passion. In other words, sharing your vision will help you birth your own community.

Six Degrees of Separation: This is the idea that everyone is, on average, approximately six steps away from any other person on Earth, so that a chain of, “a friend of a friend” statements can be made, on average, to connect any two people in six steps or fewer. So, if you want to connect to somebody who can help you fulfill your dream, won’t you like to try this out by sharing your dream?

To create momentum: Has it ever happened to you that shared an idea with someone and in the following few hours/ days, you find yourself witnessing what you had just talked about? Well, I think that sharing your vision gives energy to your thoughts, and helps you create that momentum you need to keep going.

A word of caution here – Be careful of who you share your dream with. While you do wish to know the possible flip sides or risks associated with what you are planning to undertake, you do not want too many party poopers scaring you out of it. Birthing your dream is not for weak hearted.

For every person who doubts you, tells you that you will fail, try twice as hard to prove them wrong. –Unknown

Practice the “Rule of Five”: Every day do five tasks which move you towards your goals, be it interviewing  new people or sending your sample product to five potential customers or creating an online platform or learning a new skill set. Every small bit helps. And doing it every day helps you move the mountain one bit at a time without getting overwhelmed by the enormity of it all.

Surround yourself with Successful People: How many times have you heard the phrase that you are the sum total of 5 people you spend your time with? I totally think it’s true. If you spend a lot of time with artists, you are inspired to create. If you spend a lot of times with writers, you are inspired to write. One big reason that thousands of blogs are being created everyday is because a deluge of ideas are being shared by netizens online, who want to add their own bit. So, if you want to follow your dream, find people who are successfully following theirs and let their spark light your fire within.

Don’t put all your stakes on one [or all your eggs in one basket]: Always, always have multiple options for key things like pitching to a business partner, possible income streams for your product, platform where you are sharing the knowledge, product launch platform, etc.  Murphy ’s Law does apply to real life sometimes –  if things can go wrong, they will. It is your job to see that you have covered all bases.

Be a Giver: Expecting the world to show up to support you, without you doing anything in return, doesn’t work. The support and appreciation you want, is also wanted by everyone around you. Take time out to help others with their dreams by providing your support in the required way. It doesn’t need to be money – you can help by spreading the word for them, sharing your special skills, doing a particular task or in many other ways. But giving opens you up to receiving and creates brownie points that you can redeem when your turn comes.

In the end, as poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, “We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water.” Living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get?

Through this entire series, I have shared very powerful tools to help you get started on following your dreams. Most of these tools are freely available through the web and you don’t need to spend mega bucks to get yourself started. This series comes to an end but feel free to let me know whether you liked it  or not. If you need more help or want to work with me, you can mail me at megz@megzspeakz.com or  leave me a message at my FB page Megzspeakz.

Take care…

Megz XOXO