What follows is advice on what it really takes to make your
dream a reality. It takes effort, and stick-to-it ness, but
you've got what it takes. Let the ideas below help you.
How to "Own" Your Own Dream
By Roy Vaden
It is a peculiar truth of life that we often do not
appropriately value the things we don't directly pay for.
One of the problems with credit is that it enables us to
have something that we "want" now even though we might not
really need it. And had we been forced to earn the money for
it first then we might have decided later that it's not
worth the money because it's not worth the work we had to
put in to get it.
Unfortunately, many of us approach our dreams with the same
buying-on-credit philosophy that we use to buy our stuff. We
want to find a way to get them without having to pay for
them upfront. In other words we want the accolades, the
raises, the notoriety, the freedom and the status, but we’d
rather not have to put the work in for it up front in order
to get it. But even though we think that is what we want, it
ultimately doesn't satisfy.
A dream that is handed to you wouldn't be worth as much as
one you had to pay to own. It wouldn't have the same
significance, the same meaning, and it wouldn't represent
the same success. Even though we may not realize it, the
satisfaction of reaching the dream comes from having paid
the price in order to get it.
So if you have a dream-any dream-you don't want it on
"credit." That is, you don't want it "given" to you and you
don't need it to "come easy." You want to work for it, you
want to earn it, you want to pay the price for it. You want
to own it! My friend and author, Randy Gage, often says "You
should be the number one investor into your own dream."
There are three currencies you can use to invest in owning
your dream: time, money, and energy. If you have a dream
that you want, you can own it by investing any one of those
three things into it at any moment.
And as the "Buy-In Principle" of the Take the Stairs
methodology reminds us, "the more we have invested into
something the less likely we are to let it fail." So don't
wait for your dream to be given to you. Don't expect an
easier way for it to show up. Don't think it’d be better if
it just happened. Instead, start investing! Start paying the
price and you'll be amazed at the power you have once you
truly "own" your own dream.
See you in the "stairwell".
______________
Rory Vaden MBA - Co-Founder of Southwestern Consulting,
Self-Discipline Strategist and Author of Take the Stairs.
Visit www.RoryVaden.com
It's your life, LIVE BIG!
Josh Hinds
* If you'd like to learn strategies for living BIG -- check
out my book, It's Your Life, LIVE BIG!
dream a reality. It takes effort, and stick-to-it ness, but
you've got what it takes. Let the ideas below help you.
How to "Own" Your Own Dream
By Roy Vaden
It is a peculiar truth of life that we often do not
appropriately value the things we don't directly pay for.
One of the problems with credit is that it enables us to
have something that we "want" now even though we might not
really need it. And had we been forced to earn the money for
it first then we might have decided later that it's not
worth the money because it's not worth the work we had to
put in to get it.
Unfortunately, many of us approach our dreams with the same
buying-on-credit philosophy that we use to buy our stuff. We
want to find a way to get them without having to pay for
them upfront. In other words we want the accolades, the
raises, the notoriety, the freedom and the status, but we’d
rather not have to put the work in for it up front in order
to get it. But even though we think that is what we want, it
ultimately doesn't satisfy.
A dream that is handed to you wouldn't be worth as much as
one you had to pay to own. It wouldn't have the same
significance, the same meaning, and it wouldn't represent
the same success. Even though we may not realize it, the
satisfaction of reaching the dream comes from having paid
the price in order to get it.
So if you have a dream-any dream-you don't want it on
"credit." That is, you don't want it "given" to you and you
don't need it to "come easy." You want to work for it, you
want to earn it, you want to pay the price for it. You want
to own it! My friend and author, Randy Gage, often says "You
should be the number one investor into your own dream."
There are three currencies you can use to invest in owning
your dream: time, money, and energy. If you have a dream
that you want, you can own it by investing any one of those
three things into it at any moment.
And as the "Buy-In Principle" of the Take the Stairs
methodology reminds us, "the more we have invested into
something the less likely we are to let it fail." So don't
wait for your dream to be given to you. Don't expect an
easier way for it to show up. Don't think it’d be better if
it just happened. Instead, start investing! Start paying the
price and you'll be amazed at the power you have once you
truly "own" your own dream.
See you in the "stairwell".
______________
Rory Vaden MBA - Co-Founder of Southwestern Consulting,
Self-Discipline Strategist and Author of Take the Stairs.
Visit www.RoryVaden.com
It's your life, LIVE BIG!
Josh Hinds
* If you'd like to learn strategies for living BIG -- check
out my book, It's Your Life, LIVE BIG!
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If you would like to have me speak to your group or
organization... Let's Connect:
http://JoshHinds.com (Speaker Info)
http://GetMotivation.com
http://facebook.com/joshshinds
http://twitter.com/joshhinds
http://linkedin.com/in/joshhinds
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