I was SO inspired watching the videos below. I LOVE LOVE LOVE hearing from YOU guys. I just love what each person said below. It is so validating to listen to people talk about the importance of being happy…. especially since I grew up in a house where depression ruled the day. I need constant reminders that I am not alone in my pursuit of happiness and I’m not alone in my struggle with that pursuit. I hope you are as inspired as I was when I watched these videos. If you enjoy the videos below, be sure to let them know by leaving a comment and/or subbing to their channels. Actions speak louder than words you know?

Thank you to Andy, Tara, Mack, Martin, Mike and …. YOU?? SUBMIT YOUR VIDEO!! I’d love to hear from you!

ANDYGLOV3R		ReallyRealityTC
MackDuncan		TheSwedishLad
bluemike155		(My original full length video)

My dinner guests just left and after changing and throwing my hair on top of my head, I had a quick thought I wanted to record. Don’t think when you go for your dreams, there won’t be problems because there will be. But if you think about it, there will be problems in your life whether you go for what you really want or not, right? So might as well go for what you want and expect the worse case scenario and just tell yourself you’ll find a way through it, no matter what it is. Face your monsters!

Ann Spade:
http://www.youtube.com/user/annspade
Ann Spade (second channel):
http://www.youtube.com/user/rANNdomANNtics

stirfryTV (primary channel):
http://www.youtube.com/st1rfryTV
stirfryTV (second channel):
http://www.youtube.com/stirfryTV
YouTube Spotlight playlist:
http://tinyurl.com/YTSpotlight

I am HONORED to be included in this ground-breaking cd project! I was interviewed by Christian Abrokwah (Thaahum) about various topics pertaining to the MANIFESTATION of goals/dreams & LAW OF ATTRACTION & he put it to music & a beat. (…along with other authors, thinkers, and entrepreneurs!) I will be listening to this every am to get me & keep me on track for 2010! Check it out & do your dreams a favor by downloading these tracks right now!!!!

“Inspiration on Fire is what happens when “The Secret”, “As a Man Thinkith” and “The Power of Now” meet an urban audience.”

- Christian “Thaahum” Abrokwah CEO of Keneteph Entertainment

You can purchase individual tracks or the entire MP3 album by clicking the link below.

One day I was talking with my dad about this and I said, “I’m not like you, I have to push myself to go running. But once I’m out there, I’m okay.” What he said completely spun my world around. He told me that although he has been active since he was a teenager, ran in 5 & 10ks, biked for miles miles, jogged every day, and was in tip top shape, every single time he went out to start his exercise he had to overcome a feeling of not wanting to do it. WHAT? I couldn’t believe it. I said, “You mean, just every now and then, like when you haven’t been out in a while, or when you were sick or injured for a while, right?” and he responded with “No, EVERY time.” He went on, “It amazes me how it never gets easier. After all these years you would think my body would just know that by exercising I will feel great but instead I am met with a feeling of resistance every single time!” I honestly couldn’t believe what I was hearing. So the difference between myself and the people I envy who exercise every day and are in great shape isn’t some genetic thing that they have and I don’t, but rather, it’s a CHOICE that they make, each and every day, to OVERCOME that voice that tells them NOT to do something, to settle and to stay “comfortable”. So if I wait for that resistance to go away, I will be waiting forever because even people (like my dad) who workout every single day experience that resistance! The trick is to push past it and not let is control my day.

Dreams are the same way. The passion and excitement for our dream rises and falls. Life has a way of taking the wind out of our sails at times. Maybe we want to do something that helps people but then we get sick of people and so we think maybe our dream isn’t what we want after all! Or, we may want to be a writer and then we hear some negative feedback and we think all of our potential readers may have the same type of negative feedback so we decide we don’t want to be a writer anymore.

The bottom line: We won’t always feel excited about our dream.

Nobody ever tells you about the mundane aspects of “living the dream” because well, let’s face it, we don’t want to hear about it!! We are working in jobs that make us unhappy and the excitement we get when we think about our dream is like oxygen to a dying man!! The last thing we want is a cup of “reality” thrown in, taking away our hope of a better life, our reason for getting out of bed in the morning. But I’m telling you this because I think a lot of us give up on our dreams once “the honeymoon is over” and we are just faced with the day-to-day aspects of it all because we initially associate our dream with the feeling of “excitement” and when we wake up one day and that excitement has turned to just another day, we get discouraged and fall back into old behaviors and give up on our dream. Don’t get me wrong, the day-to-day aspects don’t have to be boring, we can make any and every part of our lives as fun as we want them to be, but I’m just saying, there are parts to all life that are just … well, mundane! But don’t let the mundane, repetitious, or boring parts of your dream discourage you from working at it each and every day. Don’t listen to that voice that tells you it’s not worth it. Don’t listen to that feeling that tells you that it’ll never happen and what’s the use? Every day that you put energy into your dream, even if it’s not the big, sweeping progress that you can Tweet about and receive all kinds of “ooohs” and “aaahs” for, but instead maybe you just mailed a letter you were supposed to mail, or looked something up on the Internet that you’ve been putting off, or made that phone call you’ve been avoiding, whatever! No matter how “small” the action, any and all action is another chuck of wood that you have cut out of that big wall that stands between you and your dream and so… you have made progress!! And even if you make no measurable external progress, the reason you must face that feeling and push past it is to prove to yourself that YOU (not your schedule, your job, your family/friends, etc.) but YOU are in control of your destiny!! Every time that you face that resistance and you tell it to sit the EFF down – you take the control back, and you are stronger and happier for it!

The people who achieve success are the ones who put energy into their dreams every day – no matter how they’re feeling or what’s going on around them. They put their happiness FIRST. They put their mask on before they assist others. They don’t let the “boring” parts of their dream discourage them because they know that ultimately, for them, it’s about living the life that they chose to live because even the most boring day of living their dream is one thousand times better than the most exciting day of not living their dream. If you are waiting for everything to “feel right”, you are wasting valuable time. NOW is the time. NOW is all we have. Go out there and get em tiger! EACH AND EVERY DAY… no matter what!

Dream Hoarders

My tweet stream just now:

The show HOARDERS (on A&E) has gotten me thinking… I wonder if we
Hoard our dreams…like, collect so many that we end up getting
overwhelmed.

Imagine yourself sitting in a house filled with boxes of dreams,
covering the furniture, up to the ceiling. How do you feel?

Can you see yourself weaving in and out of the boxes getting ready for
work? Occasionally knocking one down. Dreams spill out.

People come over and tell you to “just get rid of” all the boxes…
but you cling to them, believing “one day” it’ll all mean something.

But as the days go by, you are starting to question if it ever will
make sense as the # of boxes increase every day.

Yet you are overwhelmed and tired and sick of living in the cracks of
the boxes of unfulfilled dreams.

You will either die in your dream warehouse or you will go crazy and
start breaking open all of the boxes and LIVE!