by Tara Joyce | Mar 30, 2012 | Self/Business Growth
Perhaps you’re like me and you find yourself yearning for the completion of your dreams.
I dream of the day when my current “struggles” are behind me. I dream of the day when my first book is written and published, and my second is hot in pursuit. I dream of visiting space.
The word ‘dream’ can have a pie-in-the-sky quality to it that makes me uncomfortable though. It’s not that I think dreams are unrealistic to have. I truly believe that our dreams can come true. But we have to be realistic about achieving them.
My dreams can only come true when I am true to them.
Only thinking about my dreams and not doing, I am simply dreaming. There is no coupling of the dream with a firm intention to manifest it.
I get lost in dreaming when I start thinking I need to know how to get to the end result. I scare myself into inaction by the hulking picture of the goal realized. I start to think I need to know how to GET THERE NOW, and of course I have no fucking idea how.
My success can’t be guaranteed… especially if I haven’t committed to it.
The thing is, I do not need to know how to get there. I do not need to know each step to my dream realized. I only need to be willing to act in the direction of it.
To manifest my dreams, and to move from dreaming to goal achievement, I only need to couple the largeness of my dream with small, concrete and strategic steps.
My dreams can not come true over night. But each small step I take does bring the bigger dream a notch closer, and knocks it down a size.
It’s the aching yearning for completion, as painful as it can be, that drives me to act, and commits me to achieving the dream. That is what it is there for. To drive me in the right direction. It is not to be the final destination.
My true destination, I bet, will be beyond my wildest dreams.
“Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it, because action has magic, grace and power in it.” – Goethe
by Tara Joyce | Mar 15, 2012 | Cultural Creativity
I don’t believe in plans. I believe in planning.
I believe in understanding the general shape of something. I believe in knowing where you are and where you want to go.
I believe that measurable goals drive accomplishment. I believe the better you can express your vision and mission with great specificity, the easier it is for you to outline the steps needed to realize it.
I believe that once you’ve determined where you want to go, what comes next can not be determined, and likely won’t be in any plans you’ve made. I believe this truth can free you from the fear of starting and create a trust in your ability to fill in the gaps later.
I believe that starting with a blueprint, a sketch, of your dream is enough. I believe in having faith that time and experience will help shape the details, as you need them.
I believe that you know how to get you where you want to go. I believe you can get there if You believe you can get there.
I believe in you starting and I believe in you growing from there.
by Tara Joyce | Mar 8, 2012 | Cultural Creativity
Style
We’ve all got it. Sometimes we just need support in expressing it.
Your Style lives in how you do things, in what attracts you; it lies in every choice you make each day. Your Style is you doing what you do, uniquely.
And when you can express your Style clearly, it holds something amazingly powerful in attracting what you desire.
Success
If Success is the realization of your personal dreams. Style is the expression of your personal dreams. They’re partners.
Your personal Style, the expression of it, is critical to your Success. Your personal Success, how you define it and the realization of it, is critical to your Style.
Style & Success are synergistic partners whose whole is greater than the sum of their parts. Working together, they enhance your life and provide you with that which you intrinsically deserve.
photo credit: Daniel Lee
