Creating your Craziest Dream before the Sun Comes Up!

The Next 12 Months and Results will happen anyways...

Before you can think about the fact that you just woke up from a sleep and before you figure out you just gotta hit the bathroom, scream within 10 seconds. Scream out exactly what you major purpose and dream is! Then say it again over and over about 100 times. Talk about it for an hour. Look at pictures and photos you have collected and impress your subconscious mind and just let it linger all day long within the recesses of your mind.

Maybe I am sounding repetitious about this concept but if you really want to make it happen and create the reality you just have to have that dream in your mind in front of you at all times. So much so, that if you were woken up in a deep sleep you could fully describe and blurt out your vision within 10-30 seconds. Every day you have to keep it in front of you. Surround yourself with people that support your cause and purpose and avoid, I mean totally avoid anyone that wants to just drop a bomb and cave in your grandest vision. Don’t even be around them.

Since I was just a high school drop out and went straight out of school into the work world I didn’t get to my High School Graduation. I was just too busy living life in the way I knew how and in the way I was learning from people I met along the way. The one thing that didn’t diminish and go away was the dream and vision of living a great and fun life. Spending time on the beach in the hot sweltering Sun. I always welcome that no matter what is going on in my life. 

I’m trying to figure out where it started. I was heavy into personal development and learning a lot about myself. Attending Seminars, listening to different speakers, getting new ideas and aspirations for my future. 

Even before that, I had an entrepreneurial bend to my thinking. When I was a kid, I sold Regal Christmas Cards to my neighbors on our block and to my Mom & Dad’s friends. I was a star in my own neighborhood and I was only 8 years old. I am not even sure what motivated me at that time, but I remember seeing an advertisement in a monthly magazine that sounded so good. It said I could ‘Make Extra Cash’ as a Regal Christmas Card distributor. That to me sounded really exciting. Then when the day came that my seller kit arrived, I was just so excited thinking about all the extra cash I was going to make.

That was my first dream as a kid.

Making that extra cash. It just sounded like so much fun. I kept that up for a few years and then got kind of bored with it and started delivering newspapers. That too was an amazing experience because I had to get up at 4 o’clock in the morning to go down to the corner and find my bundle of newspapers that had been dropped off on the street corner. There was the bundle, all strapped up with binder twine and the newspapers all wrapped in plastic so they wouldn’t get wet.

All 79 of them. I had my own little personal paper route.

It was pretty cool. Eventually my brother Ken would help me with them too. On the real cold days our Mom would drive us around. After all the paper just had to go through. It had to get to the customer. Ken and I had a lot of fun with that. Even though I had no description or definition of what an entrepreneur was, I found out later I really was one at an early age. I really was one. The other thing I did on the weekends was find old beaten up bicycles. Either regular riding bikes or fancy 10 or 15 speed bikes. I would give them a mechanical overhaul like greasing the chain. making sure the tires were in good condition, check the tire pressure, and most of the time give them a new paint job. Sometimes I had to re-tape the handle bars so they would look good. Then I would sell them and make a $10 or $20 profit.

Not like today where you can make a $10,000 or $20,000 profit

by doing something like that online. Use the internet as your marketplace instead of a small town that you live in.

Besides catching frogs and snakes with my friends, buying and selling bikes at that time were an exciting time.

Then when I was 12 years old, I started cutting lawns. Some of my neighbors hired me to cut their lawn on a weekly basis and it seemed to work out really good. Then one day one of my neighbors called and asked if I had cut my lawn that day. I said ‘yes’ of course. He then said ‘well don’t cut it again, you’re fired!’ I was just devastated.

It really shattered my little entrepreneurial mind. It didn’t stop me though.

That summer I got a job at the local manufacturing plant that built Trailers. My Sister was working there so every morning at 6:15 a.m. we would drive to work. My job was to stack lumber. My foreman taught me to separate the lumber into two categories. The ‘Crooks’ which was the crooked lumber and the ‘Straights’ which was all the straight lumber that we could use for building. It was a grueling job. Myself and the worker that was working with me would separate a lift of lumber and put them into the 2 different piles and then bundle them up. We were out in the Sun and it was damn hot! We did such a great job, strapped up the bundles and then went to our foreman George and were so proud of ourselves. George said ‘Well what the hell are you doing standing around then, get over there and get that #@&€@ one done!’ All summer long he just drove us.

We made $1.10 an hour no matter how much lumber we stacked

in that hot sweaty hour. That just got me ready for everything else that was going to happen in my life. Somewhere along the way I would get different versions of what life what was supposed to be like.

I would meet different mentors and follow certain successful people.

Then somewhere along the way you make a transition from just being a kid to being an adult. Your idea changes on who you believe and who you want to believe. But somewhere you get an imprint of what success really means to you. You see other people doing it and want to do what they are doing. You want to be like them. You somehow convince yourself that it is the way to go. So you move along through life and believe what you think is right. 

The thing is though, somewhere along the way you get shafted. Someone fails you or cheats you or lies to you. Then you have to make a choice. Do you want to still believe in your dream just because of this life experience or do you want to just follow your gut and keep working towards your dream. You get input from your friends, your family and everyone else what they think you should do. You actually end up getting way too many opinions and it just scrambles your thinking.

The decision you make, you find is the wrong decision. You fall flat on your Ass!

The whole world is caving in. Now what are you going to do? Do you keep believing in your dream or do you say ‘forget it’ and just make an abrupt change? There are so many choices. When you are young you make so many mistakes. Later in your life, you can look back and realize that you really did, however the thing is that is the only way you are going to forge ahead and move forward. 

It doesn’t matter what level of your life you are at, somehow and someway you just have got to keep believing in your purpose. 

Maybe you don’t know what that is. Maybe you need to bounce of the wall a few more times before your really can get clarity on where you are going. Each time you think you know what your purpose you have to move forward confidently in that direction and operate ‘as if’ it is the correct purpose and direction at the time for you to be working on. Many more times you will probably fail. You will trip up and over yourself and keep on getting up until you get it right.

Oh ya, some people do smoothly sail safely through life. It appears that way anyways. The truth is they have their mountain to conquer to too. Sometimes it just gets hidden behind the veil enough that the whole picture isn’t displayed in front of the world. It is though. The truth eventually comes out. 

The reality is, in our life, the more uncertainty we can handle in our life, the more we get closer to, and can navigate our own success. But you gotta keep going.

We gotta keep going! Because it's not about you. It’s not about me. It’s about we! What We can all do together to keep making the world a better place!

How about we do this!