Do you remember the things that you loved to do as a child?
Do you remember the hopes & dreams you had?
The wonder?
The passion?
It’s funny to think of all of the things we dreamed of doing when we were young.
I wanted to be an astronaut, an architect, a race car driver.
Luckily one of those things came true - but they don’t always happen that way.
Do you remember what it was that you desired to be?
Do you remember what gave you excitement in your bones and a smile on your face?
The things that we yearned for and dreamed of one day having. The image of ourselves as being a poet, a doctor, a designer, a teacher.
Where did you get lost along the way?
Did that idea or dream get proven as not being enough?
Who told you so?
What idea or opportunity derailed your greatest desires?
We live life as young children with no filters on our thoughts or our selves. We explore our own minds and how we best do things.
And then we begin to learn society and how best to fit in.
And sometimes those learning ways, those inspirations, those hobbies - all fall away.
What if you could make a living doing all the things you loved?
And what if you had time to recreate those hobbies you loved spending your time on?
Imagine you could do those things today.
Imagine that you could be in the same spaces that your were as a child.
Creating and playing and outputting your greatest gifts.
And imagine that the world absolutely needed those gifts.
Imagine there was a place and there was space that you could feel free to do everything you used to love to do.
What would that be?
How would you show up for yourself in that?
How would you feel about that?
You may just wake up happier each day knowing you were doing something you’ve always loved and have been good at.
EXERCISE
Now, work with me.
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