Please call your inner child to the screen, we have a conversation with him. Life is too short to live without a purpose. Life is too boring to live without passion. How to understand what you really want and how to achieve it?
Please call your inner child to the screen, we have a conversation with him.
Hi. Do you remember how enthusiastically you wanted to be a firefighter as a child? And you had 52 fire engines and the same number of books about these gallant handsome guys? You made the sound "pshshshsh", pretending that you were extinguishing the house and saving the kitten. And you were not afraid of this work, you were afraid that this work would never happen in your life. Or maybe you wanted to ride in a husky sled, build the world's greatest bridges or play in a puppet theater? You have matured and forgot your dreams and there is no enthusiasm, no time to even think, "What do I really want?"
In Barbara Sher's second bestseller, Dreaming, you will learn how to overcome self-criticism, get off the beaten track, trust your desires, re-believe in forgotten dreams, define your talents, and finally find your way in life. So buckle up, it's time for some extreme dreams!
“If you want to live a fulfilling life, you need to find some meaningful direction for it. As soon as you go for your dream, you will awaken and everything will be filled with meaning. " Barbara Sher
Be an ace
Place your watch in front of you. Now turn into a master of aerobatics for thirty seconds and tell about it so exciting that anyone wants to be in your place. “I am an ace pilot. Enjoying freedom in the sky is wonderful. Most of all I like to hover over the mountains and follow the river beds, flying between the rocky walls. I love the roar of the engine and the feeling of power."
Got it? Try it yourself and start with an ace pilot - purely for fun. Then repeat again and again, but with different characters. Be a prima ballerina at the Bolshoi Theater, an Antarctic explorer, a cheetah photo hunter. Come up with anything, and then become an active promoter of it. If possible, gather your friends and try together. We promise you will like it.
Create your ideal family
Imagine your dream of breeding Labradors in the Himalayas. Agree that relatives and friends will react differently to this news. Most likely, friends will join in solving your problem, suggest contacts of dog handlers, remember that there are a couple of acquaintances in Tibet and, in general, will give a charge of inspiration and moral support. What if you share the same idea at the dinner table with your family? How will they react? Put the forks on the table and rush to dissuade you from insanity?
Think and feel what it means to receive maximum support. Allowing yourself to see what your ideal family could be will help you feel differently about yourself. With this exercise, you will prepare for a new present and future. So take a piece of paper and a pen and come up with a family in which you would be supported and understood. Consider in detail how energetically each family member is supporting you.
Having realized more clearly what an ideal family would be, you will understand what to strive for here. The family will feel the changes in you on a subconscious level and, over time, will accept any of your choices.
Put all your talents into practice
If you were ten people, how would each of you manage your life? Write down what you do in each of these lives. Want more than ten? Write as much as you want! The list might look like this: poet, musician, successful entrepreneur, Chinese scholar, gourmet restaurant chef, traveler, gardener, husband and father, journalist, talk show host.
You have a list with your future in your hands. To find a way to live each of these lives, answer the questions:
What kind of life can you devote to next year?
What kind of life can you live when you realize the first one?
What can you do twenty (or less) minutes every day?
What about on weekends?
What can you do from time to time?
"Don't think about how to fit into this world - think about how to arrange life in order to fit your many talents into it." Barbara Sher
Actively move towards your dream for an hour
A small step from reasoning to reality can bring amazing relief.
For the next hour, actively engage in movement towards your goal. Set a timer for an hour and devote yourself to any of your goals or dreams. Stop in an hour. Or don't stop. Drop all fears and all ifs.
Stop planning! Call, agree, promise, step over the threshold, do it. Right now.
By the way, if, after devoting an hour to a specific goal, you feel neither fear nor doubt, but experience enthusiasm and joy, then you are ready to go out into the world and bring your wonderful script to life.
"As impractical as it may seem, figuring out what your heart is most about is the most practical thing in the world." Barbara Sher
Life is too short to live without a purpose. Life is too boring to live without passion. A true genius lives within you - one of a kind, inquisitive, with great potential. As soon as you go for your dream, you will awaken and everything will be filled with meaning.
Good luck!
