How to “Own” Your Own Dream
It
is a peculiar truth of life that we often do not appropriately value the things
we don’t directly pay for. One of the problems with credit is that it enables
us to have something that we “want” now even though we might not really need
it. And had we been forced to earn the money for it first then we might have
decided later that it’s not worth the money because it’s not worth the work we
had to put in to get it.
Unfortunately,
many of us approach our dreams with the same buying-on-credit philosophy that
we use to buy our stuff. We want to find a way to get them without having to
pay for them upfront. In other words we want the accolades, the raises, the
notoriety, the freedom and the status, but we’d rather not have to put the work
in for it up front in order to get it. But even though we think that is what we
want, it ultimately doesn’t satisfy.
A
dream that is handed to you wouldn’t be worth as much as one you had to pay to
own. It wouldn’t have the same significance, the same meaning, and it wouldn’t
represent the same success. Even though we may not realize it, the satisfaction
of reaching the dream comes from having paid the price in order to get it.
So
if you have a dream–any dream–you don’t want it on “credit.” That is, you don’t
want it “given” to you and you don’t need it to “come easy.” You want to work
for it, you want to earn it, you want to pay the price for it. You want to own
it! My friend and author, Randy Gage, often says “You should be the number one
investor into your own dream.”
There
are three currencies you can use to invest in owning your dream: time, money,
and energy. If you have a dream that you want, you can own it by investing any
one of those three things into it at any moment.
And
as the “Buy-In Principle” of the Take the Stairs methodology
reminds us, “the more we have invested into something the less likely we are to
let it fail.” So don’t wait for your dream to be given to you. Don’t expect an
easier way for it to show up. Don’t think it’d be better if it just happened.
Instead, start investing! Start paying the price and you’ll be amazed at the
power you have once you truly “own” your own dream.
See
you in the “stairwell”
Rory
Vaden is a Self-Discipline Strategist, Author, and Business Motivational
Speaker whose insights have been shared on Oprah radio, in BusinessWeek, and in
SUCCESS™ Magazine. Rory is the author of Take the Stairs and
is currently on a Take the Stairs tour. Click here to see if he will be in your town.
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