What the hell is stopping you from chasing your dreams?!
"What do you mean, Hal? I am going to school and working towards that great job. I am saving money for that house. I am dating a great guy and we're building towards a future together."
No, I don't mean regular life goals. I don't mean your desires that you're pretty sure you'll get to. I don't mean your safe dreams.
I'm talking about your huge, scare-the-pants-off-you, fly-to-the-moon, change your very life goals that you've never told anyone about. Not since you were in kindergarten and someone asked you what you wanted to be when you grew up. Nobody took you seriously then, and you're pretty sure they wouldn't now!
"You want to have a 7 figure income?! But you make 25k a year. That's impossible."
"You want to be a singer? Do you even know the percentage of people that make it in the musical industry?"
"You want to be one of the greats in the horsemanship industry? You only started learning real horsemanship a few years ago. You are just a ranch cowboy."
If you've ever had big dreams, you've also had naysayers. And, purposefully or not, consciously or not, you've let their words into your conscious. You've let them beat you down! You've doubted yourself because of the words of someone who never attained their big dreams, either.
To hell with that. If you want to be a champion, surround yourself with champions!! You wouldn't take advice from a city slicker about how to run your cows, would you?! No? Then why would you listen to someone who has never attained their big goals and dreams, about attaining your dreams?!
Grab the opportunities life throws at you. Be BRAVE
Be BOLD
Be DARING
Be FEARLESS
in the pursuit of your dreams!! Don't let anyone tell you that you can't. The only thing getting in your way is your own self image!! Stop caring if your huge self improvement, your huge success, your zest for life, your plain BIGness makes people uncomfortable!
Bet on yourself.
Bet on your success.
Bet on your ability to achieve greatness!
Get after it! Don't wait! Start today!
Whatever that may look like for you, run after your dreams like your life depends on it. Because, well, doesn't it?
XO, The Cowboy's Wife
