Transitioning Into Your Dream

The best time to talk about this is when you’re going through it.  So from my personal real-time experience - here goes:

First of all you don’t want to believe it...

After all how many times have you been disappointed before. It’s too good to be true so it can’t possibly be.

So your transition into believing your dream is true comes in steps - little steps.

Because what you’re going through is a conditioning process that re-writes all that rationale you’ve invested in for so many years convincing yourself your dream won’t happen to you.

You are forced to re-examine the life you’ve been living and ask yourself - “Is this really all there is?”

That’s a tough one - sure there’s going to be a lot of resistance.  Nobody wants to admit that they’ve compromised so much in order to live a life of so little - freedom -adventure - and so few dreams realized.

So these little steps are not easy - they require a lot of introspection.  Especially when you can no long “fault” the opportunity that can make your dream a reality.

Now you’re faced with yourself and all the little excuses and stories you’ve been telling everybody for so long - all the explanations you’ve given people for why you haven’t lived up to who you want people to think you are.  Why you’ve let yourself down.

Sure, your stories are always cutting edge - how you’re going to do this and that - when those certain things fall into place - but you fail to mention why the last big story you told didn’t pan out - and the one before that.

Now you’re faced with the truth.

It’s really been you all along.  Maybe there’s been many opportunities to make your dreams come true but you’ve been too busy telling your next big story to pay attention.

This time however - you can’t escape the truth - so you let yourself believe a little deeper and a little deeper.  With each step you feel a little more relieved and at the same time a little more anxious…

You don’t want to screw up this time…

Then you realize: I can’t screw up I can only turn my back and walk away - like so many times before.

and you take another step and believe a little more…

-Bob Baran