Dreaming of Your Dream Life

What awaits you at the end of the hall to your dream life?

When is your Hogwarts letter going to drop in your lap?

The answer is action. But action requires long-suffering effort, as does life as a non-changing principle. Recalibrate the process until it works for you (get up earlier, send more emails, find your rhythm in the way you work).

The only limiting factor when it comes to your dream life is often yourself.

Do you have wishes that need to be fulfilled?

Ask Yahweh to help you work with the vision He has placed in your heart.

Sometimes you must plant the seed and wait for the growth in a matter of months down the road.

The first cold proposal you sent to a client nine months ago might cause that client to pop up again, and then you might have a client on a retainer fee for 10-15 hours of your time a month for the next six months. And all it took was that first step.

Let’s say someone receives a diagnosis of being prediabetic. If they resign themselves to their fate, not fulfilling and manifesting their wishes, they might miss out on upgrading their health to levels they had never been at.

Sometimes it takes that bit of bad news (as Jenny Lewis would say) to propel you forward.

Your dreams are achievable with enough faith in both God and your own abilities.

Sometimes life events or work will spring up and force you to place some plans on hold—but that doesn’t mean it is over. You’re not a failure if you fail at something. You learn from it and do better the next time. I’d trust someone who’s failed ten times over someone who hasn’t failed (if you know, you know).

In writerly life, an example is taking on a ghost project of 75,000 words and putting your own art on hold so someone else is happy with their art.

A baby might arrive a week earlier than expected, and you might not have built the crib yet.

Someone might pass you over for a promotion, and you’ll feel like it was your fault or inability to work at a high level.

When these things happen, you can’t let life dictate everything.

Perhaps the reason the owl hasn’t arrived just yet is because you didn’t leave the Muggle world behind (old job) for the new horizons of the magical (an entrepreneurial venture).

Thinking ahead means a premature baby wouldn’t be without a bed.

Setting better deadlines (a personal example from my artist life) will help mitigate the inevitable.

My point is that there is always a solution to your situation, and your dream life is not far away.

Most people take the mapped-out path in life, but the straightforward path is the least rewarding path of them all. I don’t mean it will make life easy, but the path spelled out for you from society and culture doesn’t mean it is right for you.

If you like clocking in and out and leaving work at work and want to live a life of only trading time for money, there’s nothing wrong with that morally.

But are you serving God to the best of your abilities if you stay stagnant?

The dream life isn’t unattainable; otherwise, why would God give you your dreams?

That little spark of magic is there for you to unravel the path to the best version of yourself and your life.

Don’t say it isn’t possible. Because at that point you’re right. It isn’t possible.

But what if you said yes? What if you could do it?

Trust God and your innate gifts to lead you to your dream life.

Be patient as you trust in the greater plan and watch the fruitfulness of your walk grow in spades.

Just a quick thought today as I wrap up the day.

Shalom and blessings to you.