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Eleven Questions To Kick-start Your Dream

By Keith Varnum 
(©2004, All rights reserved)

7. How will you benefit from getting your dream?

Get specific. Write down the pluses as motivators. Ask yourself, “What would happen if I made a lot of money doing something I love? How would I approach life differently?”


8. What steps can you take today toward your dream?

Don’t defer your dream. Set up supports and systems around you to instantly translate your intentions into action. Jump on every opportunity that is in line with your purpose and vision.

Keep the momentum going. No matter how hectic life gets, pledge to take at least one action a day. Even the smallest actions. i.e. jotting down a new idea, reading a single page, or making one phone call can add up.

Are there smaller projects that lead to your larger dream that can give you pleasure in the meantime? If the dream is to run a marathon, train for a local run first. Find a way to measure your progress. Track little wins by writing in a journal or telling a friend.


9. Are you telling yourself: “I can’t have my dream?”

Most don’t believe they can make a living doing what they love or feel they don’t deserve their dream. To avoid the pain of feeling this way, people often keep their dream so buried they can’t remember they ever had a dream…but know, everyone has a dream and is destined to fulfill it. Why wait?


10. Are you afraid of getting your dream? 

Statistically, more heart attacks occur when “good” things happen, than when “bad” things happen! Of course, realizing your dream is only threatening to your old experience of yourself and your life! 

Change is scary. Find a way to move the energy of fear.


11. Do you really need to accomplish your dream to be happy?

Enter the “hootless state” where you no longer give a hoot if the exact “picture” of your dream comes true. Without interference of the ego’s push, pressure and micro-managing, you have a better chance of being in the right vibration (space) to attract real happiness. Relax your grip on the exact way your future “has” to unfold. This gives the Universe more flexibility in how it can fulfill your wishes.

And, what if our true task here on Earth is simply to be who we already are in our essential nature — with or without manifesting our specific goals? What if the essence of who we are is enough? 

Keith Varnum, is an author, personal coach, acupuncturist, film-maker, radio host, restaurateur, vision quest guide and inter-national seminar leader with “The Dream Workshops” draws from the wisdom of native and ancient spiritual traditions Visit  www.TheDream.com.