By the Ocean
Sunny 76 Degrees
6:26 a.m.
I started my first business back in the year 2000. It was a telecommunications MLM that resold long distance phone service. You’d build the business by getting someone to switch their long distance carrier (look it up kiddos) and get paid a commission on their usage.
I paid money to get what they called a “self-replicating website” that I could show to prospects about this opportunity. I never thought about what that meant back then. Now I know it just meant “a website that looks like everyone else’s.”
I printed out a big banner to hang in the back window of my car with a domain name (freethedream.com) that led to that website.
I invested $200 per month (a HUGE SUM back then, thank you credit cards!) to purchase SIX leads every month to call about the opportunity. I called a few and then stopped. I was too scared to pick up the phone. The leads were low quality. To say they weren’t expecting my call would have been an understatement. Even though I stopped making the calls, I didn’t cancel the lead subscription for a while. Every day, I’d tell myself “TOMORROW.”
During this time, my aunt (RIP) called one day to see how I was doing. She was concerned because it looked like I was throwing my talent away (as a musician) by pursuing this business stuff. I guess I had sounded a little too excited on a phone call to my mom at some point and people back home started to talk.
I’ve sounded that way for decades. Excited about what is coming. Excited about the future I can feel even when I have no idea how I’m going to get there.
I sounded that way with MLM even though I sucked at it. I sounded that way when I became a copywriter and made more money in one year than my entire life before that put together. I sounded that way when I decided to move my entire family, not once, but THREE TIMES to new places around the country, sight unseen. I sounded that way the WHOLE WAY to living in Hawaii, with TEN KIDS!, for no good reason except my wife had a dream and we decided to do it because that’s what we wanted to do.
No one will ever know if you walk in the direction of your dreams or not. No one else even cares. They certainly might try to tell you that you’re crazy or irresponsible or impractical. Because dreamers make muggles uncomfortable.
You have to choose whether you allow that to stop you or not. Don’t let anyone else make that choice for you. It’s got to be YOUR CHOICE.
Most of my day is spent helping dreamers. I help dreamers who are already flying. I help dreamers who are just getting off the ground.
Right now, it’s that time of the month where I enroll new people in Do What You Love and Prosper. We work together for six full months to get your dream off the ground. If you’ve been waiting for a sign, maybe this is it. I have no idea.
What I DO know is that our dreams exist for a reason. They’re not there to entertain you. They’re not there to mock you. The dreams are a clue. They are a seed from the Universe about what you are here to do and experience.
But you’re in the driver’s seat. So it all comes down to you, what kind of life you desire and what you’re willing to do about that desire.