Eleven Questions To Kick-start Your Dream

By Keith Varnum 
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What is your dream? Want to give your vision a jumpstart? Write down your goals and use these questions to speed up the delivery of your dream.

1. What’s your highest priority?

What’s most important for you to experience, explore or embrace at this time in your life?

Get clued into your true joy. What activities turned you on as a child? What are your hobbies now? When your goals are aligned with your soul purpose, synchronicity kicks in to guide you. When you intuit and own your unique essence and calling, assistance will flow to you from every source.

2. Is this your dream, or someone else’s vision?

Are your goals your choice, or what others think you should strive for? Do you want to look back in your old age and wish you had followed your passion? Will you regret having “played it safe?” 

Is it selfish to go after your own dream? What joy can you give to others if you haven’t given it to yourself first? 

You have a divine right to listen to your heart. You have a social obligation to follow your dream. Only then can you fulfill your destiny and make the earthly contribution you were born to make.

3. Do you really want this dream? 

Do you bound out of bed to pursue your vision? Or is it a lukewarm dream you chase because it sounds meaningful? Only the Real McCoy will generate enough energy to manifest itself in the world.

4. Are you settling for less than?

Are you resigned to accepting less than your full share of love, health and success? Have you compromised and sacrificed your dream?

Anything short of living your true passions will never make you happy. Do you want to regret not marrying that one captivating person, starting that fun business, or seeing that exotic part of the world you always wanted to visit?

5. Is your dream actually just a means to some other dream?

Is your goal the ultimate end in itself, or merely a limited means to that end? Isn’t it really the new car itself you want, rather than the money (the means) to buy the new car? More to the core, isn’t it really a renewed sense of self-worth you desire, rather than the new car or house? And isn’t it really happiness you want, rather than the picture-perfect mate, job or body?

Focus on the experience you want to create, not the physical form that may or may not bring that experience.

6. What will you feel like reaching your dream?

Personal passion fuels a vision. Dive into the thrill and exhilaration of that vision. Live your dream every moment — drink in the joy of having your goal.

The Hawaiian Kahuna say, “Where your creative attention flows, so flows your life.” Is your daily attention feeding your dream? Do you know where your creative excitement is flowing?

Keith Varnum, author, personal coach, acupuncturist, filmmaker, radio host, restaurateur, vision quest guide and international seminar leader with “The Dream Workshops” can be reached at: www.TheDream.com.