Ays Daily Growth Hacks 308 When is a Good Time to Go after Your Dreams?

Today's topic: When is a Good Time to Go After Your Dreams Hi I'm Doug Holt with Author of Your Own Story and this is your Daily Growth Hack Where each day we give you a Tip, Trick or Insight to help you up level what we call the Five to Thrive. That is your Mind, your Body, your Soul, your Relationships and yes, your Business. Now, often times at the end of these Daily Growth Hacks, I ask you to do a couple simple things. A couple of calls to action to help you grow. One of those is to sign up for our newsletter. Now, if you have signed up for our newsletter, you know, you get a series of emails from me directly. Right? And one of the things I do is I ask you a couple questions and so, when people respond and they do often, I take a lot of time to read those reflect on them and respond back and a question I commonly get from people is "When do I go after my dreams?" Now, it's not always worded that way. And I get that. But that's really what people are asking. You see, oftentimes, I don't know about you, but it's been true for me in my past is you know you look at something and you okay. Well, I want to go after that but I need a little security "Maybe I need to let make a little bit more money." "Maybe it's a little bit more time." "Maybe it's getting in a relationship... getting out of every relationship... Maybe it's getting the right job then I can go do something... Whatever it is, there's always a "...and then I can..." and so the questions come up and it comes up often to me is "When do I actually go after this dream I have? "When do I go after the dream of being a filmmaker?" or "When do I go after the dream of traveling the world?" or "When do I go after my dream of of trying something different?" ...trying the career being an artist... Whatever it may be for you. And the answer is Today! Now! Now is when you do it. Now all of us have different responsibilities right I have a family I have a child and so there's certain things to do so for me I look at my base needs what base needs do I have to make you know do I sell you know do I sell my camera do I saw the computer do I sell the microphone do I saw my car to allow me to go after my dreams well I certainly would if that was me in that position I would make sure my family was taken care of now if I was single I was a bachelor at very low responsibilities you know I could sleep on our friend's couch I would go after right away sometimes you do as a side hustle and build up to it but now is the time because ironically and sorry to say but I also had a friend old friend text me and asking about a problem that they had and unfortunately this particular friend lost their spouse their partner suddenly suddenly from an illness and within a matter of a week their partner was gone now how many times have they dreamt of doing something together in the past right and I hate to use them as an example but I want to use them as a real-life example to drive this home to you right we don't know what's going on tomorrow the next day or next week we're not guaranteed anything but this moment this moment in time together so when do you go after your dreams I say you do it now I say you do it now whether you have to get new skills get an internship work for free for a while there's so many people that undervalue the idea of getting experience sometimes you have to hustle and sometimes that hustle is not getting paid right you work for free as an apprentice as an intern as somebody you find a mentor you just say hey how can I work with you what can I do for you I've done it in the past where you know my early 20s where I couldn't afford certain coaches but I was found ways to bring just massive value to them and in return they just started to spend time with me and I just was able to soak up all their wisdom and that might be something you can do you know if you want to be an aspiring artist maybe it's a painter right maybe that's something you just want to do it's part of your story that you want to live into well why couldn't you find somebody else that that is a painter or or grab your grab your paintings and bring them to an art gallery or you know a frame shop right and say hey look people need frames these are great displays start off wherever you can maybe you want to be a filmmaker maybe our photographer right you just don't know where to start well I can tell you most business owners need photographers and videographers right but it's a mutual trade-off you need that experience so work with them work for them for free or a very low dollar amount you know there's tons of stories. Gary Vaynerchuk has DRock and a lot of other people do and they'll say hey look you know an act in that scenario that videographer took years to develop themselves working for free sleeping on couches just to get secured in that position now they're living their dream so if you start today. You'll be able to live into it and live the author of your own story lifestyle I hope this is helpful for you as I said I love the emails you that are coming in if you don't know what I'm talking about that's because you're not on the Author of Your Own Story newsletter so go over there right now and subscribe. It's just one more thing to uplevel you and just to keep you in that conversation. And I'm gonna ask you to do something else. Share this with three people that you enjoy having conversations that matter with. Just three. Very simple and do that right now as well. And the third and last thing I'm gonna ask you to do is go inspire someone simply by living your dreams and living the Author of Your Own Story lifestyle. I'll see you tomorrow.