Dream a Little Dream

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Mario Andretti

This picture is part of my dream board.  This picture represents many things to me.  It is a place I can take 30 seconds and go to when I am stressed out, over worked, under- appreciated, agitated, angry, sad, etc.  It has so much power to it because I have made it that way for me.  This picture represents happiness in my life, financial freedom for my family, healthy living for my family and the people around me, laughter from my kids, fun, excitement, the future, a place where I can breathe, a place where negative thoughts don't touch me, a place where I can sit and feel the cool breeze on my skin, listen to the sounds of the waves crashing, hear my kids laughing and playing.  A place where there is nothing but peace and freedom from life’s stressful thoughts.  

Do you have a picture like this?  Do you have a place you can go?  Do you know what motivates you?  Do you have a dream?  If you don't know, then take 15 minutes to sit down and figure out what it is.  What keeps you pushing?  What drives you to work harder and smarter than the next person?  What gets you so jacked up that nothing can stop you?  What is your dream?  What is the driving force behind everything that you do?  Whether it is your kids, your spouse, your family, something material, a vacation, a better life, etc....whatever it is...don't just let it be a passing thought!  Own it, remind yourself of it every day!  Write it down, take a picture of it. Look at it, touch it, speak it every morning when you wake up...before you go to work, when you come home, before you go to bed.  Chant it, meditate on it, pray for it.  Visualize yourself in that moment.  Live that dream!! 

My Dream

Do we really need to say much more?  Done with the beach pics....for now.

The Power of Dreaming Big

You never know what kind of an impact you will have on people.  Whether it is your attitude, your daily actions and habits or the things you say.  You touch more lives than you really know about.  I had an amazing moment this last weekend.  My wife Rachael asked me to speak at her Beachbody Super Saturday event on April 12th.  I wrote a speech about how Arnold Schwartzenegger used the strategy that

if you believe in a dream vividly enough and take action to create that dream...and truly never give up, you can achieve immense levels of success just like Arnold did.  I asked everyone in the audience to write down on a notecard a description of who they were in 10 years.  I then asked them all to write down 3 things that they would start doing today to take action on that dream.  At the bottom of the notecard, I instructed the audience to write down the words, "I WILL NEVER EVER EVER GIVE UP."  I finally told then to take this notecard and place it in location that they would see every single day and to repeat those words every single day.

A little boy in the crowd (whom I had met the night before) came up to me after the event and said "Wow, great presentation!"  Impressed by this 10 year olds ability to come up to someone he did not know and compliment his speech, I thanked him for the kind words.  I remember thinking that this kid really had an adult presence to him and that his mom should be very proud of him.

His mother posted a picture of what she found in his room later that day. 

You never know the impact you will have on another persons life.  Make every day an inspirational day.