Ever since I was a small child (about 6 years old) I would have this same dream several times a month. Finally about 10 years ago, at age 40, I was finally able to interpret the dream of which confused and played with my mind for so many years.
My dream went like this: I would be with my parents at the gas station to get gas in the family car (57 Cadillac to be exact). After they filled the car up, they would fill me up with gas as well?? Once I was filled with gas, I would instantly begin to develop feathers all over my body. I would run down the street, on my hands only, trying to get myself off the ground - to fly. I was never able to fly though. This dream never felt like a nightmare nor did it actually affect my sleep .. it just kept playing over and over in my mind several times a month until about 10 years ago.
It came to me one morning, just what this dream was trying to tell me. My interpretation of this dream is that I wanted to fly, which in my mind meant acceptable success .. and until I was able to get off the ground and soar, I was going to continue to have this dream .
I had 2 kids, the most wonderful marriage, a great job, but yet was still not satisfied. Day after day after day after day, my mind would work on how I could achieve the success which I believed would make me happy. I knew in my mind what success looked like .. but had no way of knowing how to achieve it.
I would sit up at night on my laptop educating myself on a different careers and on the most successful people in these careers of which I was researching. Several months had gone by and I felt that I had done enough research to finally begin the plunge into the career that really interested me. I began marketing myself .. and I went in heavy on this marketing .. to every company and everyone that I knew could open that door and let me in. I remember telling myself .. "You will prepay and you will pay full price". This meant to me that I would have to probably do some free work and work my fingers to the bone.
I remember getting that first job opportunity via email .. it took about 3 months of consistent hammering these potential clients. Once the first job came thru, the snowball effect began .. I was so busy working 18 hours per day .. I began to feel the success I was praying for .. man, did it feel great!!!
I am flying, I AM FLYING!!!!!
I realized that it had been a couple months since I had the dream of not being able to get off the ground. To this day, I have never had this dream again. I have learned to fly :)
I have realized a few things thru this life changing process:
- I had to change my way of thinking - understanding the way I was thinking
- With enough focus I am able to manipulate reality
- The most productive thing I have ever done is to analyze this dream .. It's the best time I have ever spent.
- My failures in life could not continue to weigh me down
- I had to let go of any self-induced torture and embrace love as the most beautiful source of torture
- I need to be honest with myself and letting go of bad habits
- I have to let go of information overload and only consume information that lifts me
- Just how important it is to wake up to a job that you actually want to wake up to.
- Limit my time spent with negative people - I realized that their problems were becoming my problems
- I stopped believing blindly as it was doing me no good. I had to believe that what was once impossible in my mind was a reality within reach.
- I stopped living the unhealthy lifestyle that I knew was not healthy for me in the first place.
- The 23 hours for you and 1 hour for me was not working .. I had to believe that time to me was OK and that I don't always have to be doing something.
- I would follow the words of my dad .. "Never dabble, go all in, be fearless"
- Realized when I feel stressed, it is just my body telling me that I need to take action and make changes.
- I realized that I can do anything I want .. Life is not always easy but success is definitely not impossible.
I KNOW YOU ALL KNOW THIS ALREADY BUT .. I LOVE YOU MY STEEMIT FRIENDS!!!! SUNSHINE247 LOVES YOU :)
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