Are You Putting Your Life On Hold? Start Dreaming and Change Your Reality

Are You Putting Your Life On Hold?

I’m a dreamer. I always have been.

From as far back as I can remember I’ve had visions and fantasies of this incredible life I’m going to live.

Being a wildly successful entrepreneur.

Living in a dream home.

Becoming an author.

Receiving top grades.

Becoming a famous speaker.

Running my own magazine.

Being a fit and lean and brimming with vitality sort of gal.

Being happily married.

Creating my own family.

Going on amazing overseas adventures.

Everything I have in my life right now I experienced first in my mind.

Usually over and over and over again, and often for years. It might sound silly, but sometimes I really have to stop and acknowledge where I’m at and that so many of my dreams are now my reality.

I’ve become so used to experiencing an incredible life in my mind that the line between fantasy and reality has truly become blurred in many areas; I honestly couldn’t look back and tell you that my business became successful on a certain date or that I felt like I truly was that fit and vibrant woman at any particular point.

The funny thing with being a dreamer is that just by virtue of your dreaming you create incredible power to manifest your reality; to live the life you desire regardless of stumbling blocks or challenges that may come your way.

And yet for some reason, despite my evident success at creating the life I want, there are areas where I definitely am still holding back.

It’s almost as though I feel I don’t deserve certain things yet or maybe at all.

Things like being able to have (and hold onto) a great income without having to sacrifice too much time, energy, emotion or personal and family space.

Things like being ‘photoshoot’ or ‘sexy’ lean as opposed to what I call ‘everyday’ or ‘gym’ lean.

Things like being able to write regularly for publications aside from my own, rather than doing it here and there and then freaking out and not even trying based on a fear that I won’t be considered good enough.

Things like living in a truly gorgeous ‘grown up’ home where I would just feel so calm and happy and at peace.

Like being more spontaneous, like taking long stretches of time just for relaxation or fun.

All of these are things which I sort of feel I haven’t yet earned.

I have to be more successful, more impressive, more alight, more –

Something.

Do you ever feel this way?

As though you’re putting certain areas of your life on hold because you don’t yet deserve them, or because ‘that couldn’t happen to me, for me’?

I know I’m not the only one who doesn’t dare to dream about things that she feels aren’t her birthright.

And that’s the difference, really.

All of the dreams – now my reality – on the first list are things I either assumed as my right from a young age, or else conditioned myself to claim as my right at some point in my life.

Consider your own list of things you assume as your right, and then the list of things you don’t quite dare to dream of.

Is there really any truth to the concept that you *can’t* have those latter things yet?

Who are you to decide your own worth in this way?

The truth is that just by virtue of being you, you are an incredible and worthy woman. And the truth is that anything that a human being is capable of experiencing in this lifetime is also within your reach to experience and delight in.

Now.

But it’s going to come down to this.

You’re going to have to be willing to dream about that stuff. The stuff you keep kinda locked away until you’re ready.

Just let it out beautiful. Just let yourself imagine. For a moment. And then another one. And another still.

Wake up tomorrow, remember, and do it again.

Moment after moment after moment of seeing those dreams play out in your mind.

You do know what will happen if you can be brave enough to do this don’t you?

One day you’ll look back, and the lines between those fantasies and your current reality will be so blurred that you honestly won’t be able to remember when your imagining became tangible.

And I’m gonna be right there with you.

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