"Top Ten Justifications for Not Living Your Dreams"
By Dawn Falbe 2002�

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1. Money - this is the #1 excuse people make. Find out exactly how much money you have coming in and going out. Where is all that money going? Is it going towards your dreams? If you have the ability to make money doing something you either don't like or is only 'ok' then you have the ability to make money doing something you absolutely love.
   
   
2. Time - "There's not enough time in the day"... There are 168 hours in the week. If you work 45, drive to and from work for 5 hours, sleep 56 hours, cleaning and running errands 10 hours, 10 hours with family including eating that still leaves 42 hours per week. What are you doing with that time? Is what you are doing bringing you closer to your dream, deterring you or is neutral? It's time to take a look at your time and how you are spending it.
   
   
3. "Don't know what my dreams are" - What's stopping you from sitting down and writing out how you would like your life to be, remembering you can't use time as an excuse?
   
   
4. Education - "I don't have enough education to be a Brain Surgeon" What is stopping you from going back to school getting your GED, BA, MA, PhD's., doing a Residency and becoming the best Brain Surgeon that you can be? After all it's only exams that you'd have to take. It's not actual brain surgery.
   
   
5. Family- "I have 3 kids, no husband, no money and no time" - J.K. Rowling (writer of Harry Potter books) was on welfare and followed her dream of writing. Iyanla Vansant had 3 children, lived in poverty in a New York ghetto, with an abusive husband. One day with nothing, except the kids, she moved to Philadelphia and became a lawyer and spiritual leader. How are the family restrictions you have placed on yourself working for you?
   
   
6. Where I live now - "If I only lived in California that would be easier"... So move. This is the United States and every city has a Pizza Hut, Target and K-Mart so it won't be that much different. (Except of course for your Relocated Astrological Chart)
   
   
7. The 'right' people... "I don't know the 'right' people" Who are they that you need to know to have your dream? Write a list of them and how they, even though you don't know them, are stopping you from having your dream and what you plan to do about it.
   
   
8. Fear of failure "I might fail and lose everything". Surely it's more of a failure to do nothing than to try something and you learn you need to do something different. This is about lack of faith in yourself, your abilities and the universe to bring you exactly what you are suppose to have and teach you the lessons you need to learn.
   
   
9. Fear of success - "People might just want me for my money"... Now that would be a big problem. This is about wanting to have control over all the outcomes.
   
   
10. Money again - "It's still the money" This is the place we give our power away too the most. The belief is that you make the money first and then you do what you love. Cemeteries are littered with people who thought they'd make the money first and died in doing so and never reaching their dreams.