It means structuring your life in a way that can only support your success. You may have to work at a job you don’t like in an unrelated industry; that’s okay. If you’re ready to commit to making your dream a reality, then find a job that allows you to be done at the end of the day. Don’t look for the competitive position with room for growth; look for something that pays and lets you leave when the day is over.
Committing 100% means you don’t waste time sitting on the couch watching hours of mindless television. It means you’re reading, practicing, applying, writing, or doing something that moves you closer to your goal. It’s all about hustle, baby!
Yes, take breaks, care for yourself, but commit to making it happen by eliminating anything in your life that does not support your growth or by making the necessary changes (like with your job) so that it’s more supportive of your dream.
2. Give Yourself Proper Nourishment: Mind, Body, and Soul
It can be easy for your mind, body, and soul to be completely depleted of any energy, inspiration, or joy. Between stressing about the bills, relationship troubles, or the never-ending stream of online information and entertainment, we’ve lost sight of what’s really important to our success.
Your dream may require that you spend hours online hustling, but your dream also requires that you spend hours nurturing your mind, body, and soul. Without your physical and emotional well-being, you’re nothing. Literally. Nothing.
Making sure that you move your body, fill your stomach with healthy foods, and spend time meditating, writing in your journal, or doing any form of contemplative practice is essential to your success. Without the energy, mental clarity, and spiritual strength that these practices give you, you’ll only find yourself more stressed, lost, and out of sorts than ever before.
It is a PRIORITY to care for yourself.
3. Train and Practice…Constantly
I don’t think there’s a single great writer, speaker, athlete, artist, or other that started out at the top of their game. First, it took discovering what it is that they’re passionate about; then it takes learning how to do it; and, most importantly, it takes practice! Constant practice is the key to mastering whatever it is that you want to master in your life.
If your dream is to be a world-renowned author, you had better be writing every day. Reading books, practicing your craft, trying new things, and growing. You can’t find your voice, hone your skills, and blow the minds of this world if you aren’t writing.
If your dream is to create beautiful art and make a lot of money doing it, you had better be making art as often as possible. Capturing ideas, filling the inspiration well, trying new techniques, turning sketches into finished pieces…you have to be practicing your craft constantly.
If you want to be great and live an amazing life doing what you love, you can’t overlook the parts that require you to work hard at being the best that you can. People that are the making a living doing what they love know how important it is to constantly learn, grow, try new things, fail, and try again.
Practice, practice, practice, but also train. Train with the masters, with your idols, and with anyone who can teach you something that you need to know. There’s no sense in being prideful…yes, if you wanted to, I know that you could learn whatever it is you need to learn on your own. But someone else has already spent YEARS learning what you need to know and can literally teach it to you in a matter of hours. Let them teach you. You’ll get there faster.
4. Surround Yourself with the Right Team
It is so, so, SO important to surround yourself with the right people. If you’re trying to commit to your goals and your dream but no one in your life cares enough to check in on you or support you, then it’s time to find a new support system.
Find people that are passionate like you are, though it doesn’t have to be the same field. Find people that will understand what you’re going through as you move forward, learn, grow, and hit unavoidable bumps in the road.
They will cheer you on and keep you motivated when you’ve lost steam. They will remind you to take those necessary breaks, to nurture your soul, and to remember the end goal when you feel like giving up.
No matter how strong or independent you may be, you need this support system when things get hard, because things getting hard is unavoidable. You will hit bumps in the road, obstacles, set backs, and emotional breakdowns. You want to be surrounded by people who know how much it means to you so that they can remind you of this when you’ve forgotten it in the midst of stress.
Take Action
Do you have a dream or passion in your life?
Have you committed to it 100%? Leave a comment below, sharing your passion along with three things you’re going to implement or change in your life to show your commitment to making it happen.
Coach Stacy
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