Soul First Living

Money and Action

"Implementation is everything. Money follows action."
- from Powerful New Strategies for Sales Success (multiple authors)

Childhood Dreams of Making Money - lots of it. Join me.

My dream as a kid was to stay home and make a lot of money

...ridiculous thought, perhaps, when you consider that this was pre-Internet...actually, it was pre-computer. (Computers didn't start to become ubiquitous until I was about out of college.)

From a very young age, I had a vision of what I wanted my life to look like...international travel, strolling through markets, cooking, eating at amazing restaurants, private jets...yep, private jets...I wanted to see the world, experience other cultures, and own a business empire. (I also spent a period of time in about 5th grade researching the medical profession.)

Now, I have to share with you that I don't come from money - far from it, and my parents don't come from money. (The closest we come to money is on my mom's side,,,and that's a few hundred years removed from the current day. Mom's relatives were Huegenots and came in the late 1600s to America. They were wealthy, lost it in the Civil War, and never regained it.)

...And no one in my family is an entrepreneur.

So, where did this dream come from?

Where do any of our dreams come from?

More importantly, where do these dreams go? Most times, they seem to fade away. They go dormant, and we feel like we're "missing something."

And if not revived  - sometimes by a seeming miracle - then the dream dies.

Yet, in looking back, I can see that these dreams were not just dreams, they really were previews of coming events. (I don't have the private jet or the business empire - yet, but both are coming. Hubs and I have started browsing private planes, and I just re-keyed my dreams in terms of income goals rather than business goals - a subtle but important distinction that I'll cover in later posts.)

Looking back, I can now see that those childhood "fantasies" were meant to serve as a   compass, a treasure map.

Yet, for years, I tried to do what was responsible or "normal". I went to college, and then I "wandered" for years through dead end jobs or jobs beneath my skill level and education...I no longer seemed to know what I wanted to do...the dream had faded or stuck in the mud.

I still had ideas for businesses - but I never followed through, and they died a quick death. 

It felt like I had lost the "juice" of those childhood dreams, and I had no one to look to, to model for the lifestyle I wanted. The kind of life I dreamt of didn't exist anywhere in my reality, and I didn't possess the awareness necessary to make it happen.

Once you get in the habit of giving up on your dreams or thinking that that's all they are - fairy tales - a kind of numbness seeps in, and rots away our ability to even recognize what we want, what gives us joy.

We get into a stuck place, a place where we shuffle our feet through life.

Most times, this is our approach to dreams. We "let them go" to die a slow death - akin to a permanent catatonic state.

I never let mine go completely - most people don't...yet we may not know what to do with them, and if we muster the courage to actually pursue them, we lose heart at the first sight of obstacles thinking these are a "sign" that our dream simply wasn't meant to be.

I now see all these years as a journey where I've picked up tools, experience and knowledge that I'd need to ultimately "take" and "own" my ultimate dream - like a hero's journey - or the Isrealites' 40 years in the desert. (My perspective often depended on how discouraged I was on any given day.)

I've had numerous false starts...more than I care to remember - so many that I'm sure I seemed flaky, and I even started to think that I was.

I would get tired of trying, of hoping.

I have tried and failed at many ventures - succeeded at others, and interestingly, I succeeded mostly at those things that were "familiar" to me - working in education.

I now have the lifestyle I dreamt of - I travel all over the world, experience other cultures - the family joke is that I base my travel agenda largely on where I'm going to eat. (Mmmmm....tasteee.)

Now, I'm going for the business empire...and the "lots of money" part of the earlier vision.

I'm inviting you, through this blog, to join me. Revive those faded dreams. Make your life what you know it can be...what you've been shown it can be.

Don't miss out!

The core of my dream is "Freedom" - financial freedom, physical freedom (i.e. good health)...fI've always craved the freedom to do what I want, when I want, how I want.

What's your secret dream? Your wish?

Follow along with me as I take you step-by-step to Money and Multiple Streams of Income (MSIs).

I'm going to be sharing stories, tools, resources, tips and paths that I took - the ones that worked and the ones that didn't - stories, tools, tips, and resources that you can easily use to get where you want to go easily without the inherent stress and headaches.

One of the headaches and stressors we're going to talk about is *MONEY*. 

And, we're going to talk very frankly about money. You must understand it to have it and keep it.

It's my dream for you to get exactly the life you dream of...a life of abundance. (That's part of my dream as well...a world where everyone follows their fantasies to the fullest life possible.)

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