Dreaming big
Everything happens because of a dream. If you’re not living your dream, you’re living someone else’s dream.
Look at a normal life for the average person today. You get up earlier than you really want to because the alarm goes off. Rush through a work-out (or wish you had time for one) and go to a job that occupies most of your working time. The dreams of your childhood are long past. Now, it's about working, providing for a family, and maybe, someday, you'll have some time for you.
If you’re working for someone else, chances are you’re working on someone else’s dream. Now here’s the amazing part. The owner of the company might never have purposely chosen the course of his business, so it’s not even his dream. His mother always had the dream that someday her son would own his own business or his high school math teacher told him he was gifted in math and needed to do something in that field. He might have married someone his family told him he should marry (through spoken or unspoken comments and actions), lived in a city and neighborhood where someone else thought he should live and work. It's a life of chance and passive coincidence. No wonder we go through midlife crises! It’s our subconscious waking up and saying, Hey wait a minute! What happened to those great dreams we had once upon a time?
Some people decide to start their own business in hopes that this is the way to personal freedom. The entrepreneurial spasm lasts long enough to quit a job and start working for their own business. But, for most people, they run their own business exactly the way they used to work a job. The difference is that instead of just one boss, they now have a whole lot of bosses to keep happy. We call them customers or clients. The business owner still has no control and still isn’t following her deepest, most precious dreams.
Ask yourself: If you have your own business, is it run exactly the way you want it to? If you work for someone else, are you living your highest purpose? Are you achieving what you wanted in your life right now?
A big part to being a Maui Millionaire is purposely choosing the life you want to lead. Then it’s a matter of setting the game up so you get exactly what you want. If you don’t choose where you’re going, you’ll never get there. The dream is the beginning. It’s the seed and spark that grows into a life of abundance and wealth.
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