Saying YES to your Dream!

Photo by Joe Shlabotnik

How do you say yes to your dream? Desire? Soul’s yearning? Are you saying it at all? Are you saying it loudly? Clearly? So that both you and The Universe hear?

Dreaming, plotting, planning…they are wonderful. Necessary. Needed. But they aren’t actually saying yes.  They are the prep for the yes.  And we can prepare all freaking day…all freaking life if we aren’t careful. Or if we are too careful.  you are actually wanting to live that life rather than think about it, it is time to say YES!

So I ask you: are you to start to actually say yes…to let the whole wild world know that you are making shit happen come hell or high water…come doubts and fears…self-sabotaging bull crap and possible neigh sayers (often coming from inside your on head!)? Then come on in, the water is delightful!!

Tell people

Let the world know what it is your are up to!  Speak up.  Tell your friends. Your family.  The waitress. The guy behind you in line at the market.  Tell people.  The more it is out there, the more you are accountable for.  The more people can support you. Love you. Share what you do in the world. Best of all…the more you say it, the more you believe it!

Invest in yourself

Those big wild dreams of yours are going to take some time. Some energy.  And probably some moola to get rocking.  Yet, so often folks sit around thinking that they don’t have any of those to spare. If that is the case, then something needs to shift in your thinking. You have a 5 minutes. 5 Dollars. You have something.  Start there…and work your way up.  Put some of that towards what you want to create.  Opportunities fall into the laps of people who are already beautiful showing up.

The investment does not have to be easy.  When my amazing coach, Michelle, first invited me to be her client, I had no freaking idea where the money would come from. But I said yes anyway!  I made the money happen because there was no way I was saying no to a real opportunity to live a life that I had dreamed about. NO FUCKING WAY!
And that money I gave her was a place holder for my vision of my life. It created a portal for me to step into.  It was my investment in myself in a major freaking way.  That money made it so there was no way on this lovely planet of ours that I wasn’t going to work my tuchus off to create the business I wanted.  I made my investment back by the end of the month. From the moment I handed her my first check, I changed.  My life changed.  That investment made all the difference. And it is one I continue to make! These days paying Michelle is one of my greatest joys.

Commit to a month of steps in the right direction

Action is where it is at! It is the big mighty yes!!  So take some. Start small.  Stay consistent.  When people ask how I built The Receiving Project. Or how I’ve created my practice, I always say that I show up. Everyday. I do a lot more than that, but it begins with me showing up.

Sometimes action is hard to fathom at first. We get all riled up in the possibilities.  The future’s so bright and your shades seem to be missing.  So we do nothing. We get stuck in that planning and plotting stage.

Committing to a month of engagement with your dream is a kick ass way to begin. Do something. Do ANYTHING in the direction of where you want to go.  You can do the same thing every day or do different things that support your path.  I will often make a list of a bunch of easy and doable activities so that I can choose from them throughout the process. At the end, you will have an idea of what works, what doesn’t and where you want to go next.

 Take wild action

Small steps are great.  But sometimes there is rockstar energy in a leap. In the daring.  In a risk.  Beauty lives outside our comfort zone.  The creative juiciness that lives beyond that bubble is pure. Magical.  And totally awesome.

If you could take some wild action in service to dreams come true, what would it be?  For me, it’s been reaching out to potential clients. Investing in a coach. Sharing a blog post that I’m totally nervous about putting out in the world.  Connecting with the super amazing folks I have witnessed on the internet.  Oh, and there was sending an email to everyone I know asking them to participate in an experiment in receiving.  All of those things scared the shit out of me at one point. Some of them still do now.  But I am not content to let my fear stop me. I want to say yes! And so I do.