A lot of us have high aspirations for the future (in fact, I’ll be bold in saying that most of us do). Whether you have a vision board, a single goal, or a complex narrative of how your perfect life is, it can seem like it is in the far away future. It is safe there, not requiring drastic change and holding a promise that, someday, life will be better.
When IS that someday?
In dealing with many of our clients, we are often surprised and impressed by the stunning goals and ideal lives that are put before us. We look at our client and think – they definitely could get there, but when will they start chasing it? Sometimes we don’t give ourselves permission to start living our dream lives early enough. We believe that we have to have it all at one time to start beginning. For example, one of my huge goals in life was to have a house by the beach, always do my hair and makeup (this is something I do to feel on top of things, not to impress others), be super fit and doing yoga daily, eating well and having a family. At this point I was at uni, single, eating absolute rubbish and barely exercising at all. I had my dream locked away in the distant future. However, parts of my dream were already attainable – I COULD already start eating well (BAM! Part of my dream was realised), I COULD do my hair and makeup each day (ANOTHER part realised), I COULD do exercise workouts or join a cheap gym that offered workouts and yoga (yep, another big part of my dream already), and I COULD actually start putting myself out there to date people (wow, go figure!!).
In reality, much of my dream was already attainable at little to no cost to my immediate self. For some reason, I thought I needed to have the house before I had the lifestyle, but that simply isn’t true. Sure, I have made my way and now have my house on the beach and my beautiful little family, but without realising that those little decisions to start living PARTS of my dream early I don’t think I would have ever arrived where I am.
Looking back, it really shows me that in order to make dreams happen, you need to take small opportunities and capitalise on them, bit by bit. See my next article for a breakdown of how you can do this.
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