I received a message stating “you all about this positive life, telling everyone to live their dreams and do what makes them happy but you don’t seem to be doing that”
How do I respond? Everything I’ve done has been planned, every step I’ve taken has been thought through. The job I have now and the situation I find myself in these days are not ideal but I make a good living doing something I enjoy on most days and I can provide above and beyond for my family.
Before I met the wife person and got married, and had kids, I was introduced to a dream board or more commonly known these days as a vision board. I had to cut out pictures of things I wanted in my future and work towards them. I was taking my dreams, putting a picture to it; so visualizing it and making it specific, and then setting a time limit to achieve these dreams that once it has a time limit they become goals.
On that dream board I had a car, a house, a wife person(family), a dog and some travelling pictures. Every step I took in my career was towards achieving those goals or removing a piece from that dream board but I had to enjoy what I was doing so it wouldn’t always seem like work. I’ve since achieved all my goals on that dream board.
Most guys have this list of what they want from a girl, girls have the same list. I would use this list to choose girlfriends but the minute I threw away this list I found the girl of my dreams, who happens to be the wife person now and manages to make me fall in love with her more every year we are together. Together we have two beautiful boys and two dogs. We have two mean of transport, a roof over our heads and food on the table. I travel all the time for work but we’ve managed 2 National trips, 1 International trip as a family (Dubai), 1 International trip as a couple (London and Paris) and we currently live in Mauritius.
So it was time for a new dream board. The new board looks quite different to the first, having achieved so much the first time round you’d think the second board would be easier but that’s not the case. The second dream board was completed by the wife person, our sons and I, as a unit. We needed to dream together for the future. I know what I want but it has to correspond with what they want.
I want to be able to work at home from home – so I’ll still be able to give them the time I do now in my days off.
I want to travel more internationally but with my family
I want to be able to pay my bills and still live a comfortable lifestyle I do now
I want to be able to participate in things that interest me i.e. writing, storytelling, reading, listening to music, outdoor sports, etc.
So yes I enjoy what I do, it allows me to live my life on my terms. It might not seem that way but it’s helped me achieve my dreams already and allows me to help the wife person and kids achieve theirs.
I’ve found my WHY? My little family is my WHY? And my new; our new, dream board will be driven by our collective WHY?
I want everyone to know that we all have the same 24hrs a day; we all have access to the same reading material and videos. We can all live the life we want if we take the time to set those goals and work a little bit harder than the next to achieve them.
We all have a WHY, search and you will find it. Let me no in the comments below what your WHY is.
