Take Your Dreams Seriously, Even If It Looks Like The World Doesn't
My intention for this article is to share my experience of the past 2 years of entrepreneurship, how believing in my dreams, even when it looks like things aren't working, has been the greatest gift.
I’ve always been someone with big dreams, able to look at a problem and see a solution. I don’t see the world through rose-tinted glasses, but I see the best in others, I see the possibility instead of the limitation. I spent a lot of my younger years suppressing this way of being. I can’t tell you the exact reason why, and there are always things that we can look back on and blame, but I like to look at where I am in this moment and how I’m now, choosing to follow and believe in those big dreams.
This is not a process that came naturally to me. I didn’t one day wake up and believe. Believing in the work that I do, was more of a practice. I started to choose that, no matter what, I’d take what I do seriously, I’d take how I feel seriously, I decided that my intuition was my compass and I’d believe in the gifts that I had to offer to the world, even if it looked like no one else could see them. I share this with you, wherever you are on your journey, to remind you of the reality of the path of following your dreams, your heart, the things that inspire you and why that reality is a gift.
In my experience, this path requires immense courage, resilience, trust, surrender, and faith. These are all muscles that, like any muscle, require practice, repetition and patience to grow. It is you that needs to choose to continue to walk this path, even when it looks like things aren’t working. It’s still early days for me on this journey, and I can’t tell you how many things I’ve tried that have led to dead ends and so-called failures, but every single one has gifted me with something that you can’t simply learn through any course, book or another mentor. It’s shown me more about who I truly am than anything else. Following my dreams, believing in them, taking them seriously has brought me to a place in my life where I feel empowered. Empowered to live a life different to the one that was prescribed to me.
The intention of this article is not to share with you the ‘how I did this’, but to remind you that this possibility lives within you. The possibility to keep walking even when it feels impossible. The possibility to experience, to realise your greatest dreams. Your path isn’t going to look like mine, but perhaps I can be a mirror to what your heart is speaking to you. To remember that, you are your greatest cheerleader and support system, because you are the only person that’s always going to be with you, every day throughout this life. If I was to offer a fragment of wisdom for what has supported me the most, it’s my practice to connect and allow. To connect to all that I am, known and unknown, and to allow it. By allow it, I simply mean the opposite of suppress and reject. This practice, over-time, has deepened my faith in my path, in my work, because I know it’s origin is from somewhere deeper inside of me. There are many words you may associate with that place, I use the words heart or soul, but feel into what words resonate with you the most.
When you do this, it is you that needs to choose you. You can spend your whole life waiting for someone else to choose you, someone else to believe in you, someone else to give you that big break, but then your gifts are reliant on the permission of another. When you choose you first, when you choose to take what you do and believe seriously, you are free, you are empowered. Your power is from the Source that lives inside of you, this is something you don’t need to outsource. We can then receive support from others as a gift, not as something that we need.
This doesn’t mean that you won’t, at times, need to re-direct your attention, choose different strategies, or even let go of some dreams that you no longer feel connected to. But the practice of connecting and allowing of all that you are, is something that can never leave you, it is something that will strengthen over-time with every step you take. The path itself is the true work, not what you associate as ‘the work’. This is the by-product of who you are and who you choose to be in each moment.
What do you choose?
with love,
Emma
