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Dare to
Dream!
Discover, Develop & Display Your Dream…
in 30 Days or Less!
Edward Paz
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 1
Stage 1: Discover Your Burden – 6 Truths about Your Burden Within
Day 1: Your Burden Bothers You 4
Day 2: Your Burden Undermines Your Values 5
Day 3: Your Burden Requires Your Response 6
Day 4: Your Burden Deploys Your Creativity 7
Day 5: Your Burden Enlarges Your Compassion 8 Day 6: Your Burden Never Goes Away 9
Stage 1 – Review 10
Stage 2: Receive a Vision – 5 “W’s” for Clarifying Your Vision
Day 7: Your Vision Clarifies Who 12 Day 8: Your Vision Clarifies What 13
Day 9: Your Vision Clarifies Where 14
Day 10: Your Vision Clarifies When 15
Day 11: Your Vision Clarifies Why 16
Stage 2 – Review 17
Stage 3: Engage in the Process – 5 Ways to Begin Your Dream Journey Right
Day 12: Engage in the Process Boldly 20
Day 13: Engage in the Process Everyday 21
Day 14: Engage in the Process Gladly 22
Day 15: Engage in the Process Intuitively 23
Day 16: Engage in the Process Now! 24
Stage 3 – Review 25
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Stage 4: Allow the Obstacles to Strengthen You –
Reflections on Your Obstacles – Past, Present, & Future
Day 17: Allow Past Obstacles to Strengthen You – Part 1 28
Day 18: Allow Past Obstacles to Strengthen You – Part 2 29
Day 19: Allow Present Obstacles to Strengthen You – Part 1 30
Day 20: Allow Present Obstacles to Strengthen You – Part 2 31
Day 21: Allow Future Obstacles to Strengthen You – Part 1 32
Day 22: Allow Future Obstacles to Strengthen You – Part 2 33
Stage 4 – Review 34
Stage 5: Maintain Faith! – The 6 Benefits of Belief
Day 23: Maintain Faith for Blessing 36
Day 24: Maintain Faith for Encouragement 37
Day 25: Maintain Faith for Legacy 38 Day 26: Maintain Faith for Inspiration 39
Day 27: Maintain Faith for Energy 40
Day 28: Maintain Faith for Financing 41
Stage 5 – Review 42
Day 29: 8 Goals for Your Dream 43 Day 30: A Letter to Yourself 44
Conclusion 45
Let’s Stay Connected! 46
INTRODUCTION
The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You have a dream! Within you there is a purpose, an assignment
and a specific work that you were created to accomplish in your lifetime!
You have a yearning to do something great with your life, and that desire can be fulfilled as you courageously allow yourself to Dare to Dream!
The disheartening reality is, it is very likely that the majority of
people you know are not pursuing their dreams. If you live in a city anything
like mine, you are surrounded by individuals whose lives are consumed by
work that gives them very little satisfaction and fulfillment. If the people
you know are anything like the people I know, they are obsessed by the idea of “the weekend” and they do everything in their power to make it to Friday
at 5pm! This environment of mediocrity is not conducive to dreaming big!
The purpose of this book, then, is to prevent you from living a
similar life of “quiet desperation” and instead, help you to discover, develop
and display the dream that is your destiny! It is only in completing that which
you were originally created for that you can experience true satisfaction and
success.
With that said, this book is designed to, over the next 30 days,
provide the space where you can answer questions that will help you to
navigate through the following “5 Stages of Dream Fulfillment:”
Stage 1: Discover Your Burden
Stage 2: Receive a Vision Stage 3: Engage in the Process
Stage 4: Allow the Obstacles to Strengthen You
Stage 5: Maintain Faith!
I encourage you to work through the questions in this book one day
at a time, but if you’re inclined to work through the book at a faster pace,
please feel free to do so!
So without any further preliminaries, let’s jump right in to the first
stage of dream fulfillment…Discover Your Burden!
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STAGE ONE
Discover
Your Burden
Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
Ovid
If it brings you down...YOU can turn it around!
Edward Paz
DAY 1
Your Burden Bothers You.
Your frustration may be your allocation.
T.D. Jakes
Key Question What community/world issues frustrate, disturb or sadden you?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
6. ___________________________________________
7. ___________________________________________
Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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DAY 2
Your Burden Undermines Your Values.
A God-ordained vision will eventually feel like a moral imperative.
Andy Stanley
Key Question What community/world issues are contradictory to your ideals?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
6. ___________________________________________
7. ___________________________________________
I must uphold my ideals,
for perhaps the time will come
when I shall be able to carry them out.
Anne Frank
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DAY 3
Your Burden Requires Your Response.
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius
Key Question What community/world issues do you feel you
must do something about?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
“Sometimes I would like to ask God why He allows poverty,
suffering, and injustice when He could do something about it.”
“Well, why don’t you ask Him?”
“Because I’m afraid He would ask me the same question.”
Anonymous
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DAY 4
Your Burden Deploys Your Creativity.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Earl Nightingale
Key Question What community/world issues have you began
thinking of creative solutions for?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of
creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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DAY 5
Your Burden Enlarges Your Compassion.
Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
Edmund Burke
Key Question What community/world issues do you have
the greatest degree of sympathy for?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so,
by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
Thomas Browne Sr.
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DAY 6
Your Burden Never Goes Away.
Purpose is permanent.
Myles Munroe
Key Question What community/world issues could you not neglect doing
something about, even if you tried?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump;
you may be freeing him from being a camel.
G.K. Chesterton
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STAGE 1 – REVIEW
Discover Your Burden.
Your Burden…
Bothers You
Undermines Your Values
Requires Your Response
Deploys Your Creativity
Enlarges Your Compassion
Never Goes Away
After thinking through the various qualities of a burden, I have
come to the conclusion that my primary burden is…
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STAGE TWO
Receive
a Vision
Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be;
your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Allen
When you SEE it...You can ACHIEVE it!
Edward Paz
DAY 7
Your Vision Clarifies Who.
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
John Wooden
Key Question Who is involved with the fulfillment of your dream?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
6. ___________________________________________
7. ___________________________________________
It marks a big step in your development
when you come to realize that other people
can help you do a better job than you can do alone.
Andrew Carnegie
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DAY 8
Your Vision Clarifies What.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
King Solomon
Key Question What does the fulfillment of your dream look like?
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The only thing worse than being blind
is having sight but no vision.
Helen Keller
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DAY 9
Your Vision Clarifies Where.
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
Latin Proverb
Key Question Where does the fulfillment of your dream take place?
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Start where you are.
Distant fields always look greener,
but opportunity lies right where you are.
Robert Collier
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DAY 10
Your Vision Clarifies When.
Time brings all things to pass.
Aeschylus
Key Question When does the fulfillment of your dream take place?
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We rate ability in men by what they finish,
not by what they attempt
Unknown
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DAY 11
Your Vision Clarifies Why.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Robert Frost
Key Question Why must the fulfillment of your dream take place?
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A good intention clothes itself with power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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STAGE 2 – REVIEW
Receive A Vision.
Your Vision Clarifies…
Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Why?
To the best of my ability, the following is the complete vision of
my dream fulfilled…
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PART THREE
Engage
in the Process
The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.
Unknown
Have some HEART...START!
Edward Paz
DAY 12
Engage in the Process Boldly.
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare
Key Question What are 5 reasons why you must pursue your dream confidently?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
Isaac Newton
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DAY 13
Engage in the Process Everyday.
If your habits don't line up with your dream,
then you need to either change your habits or change your dream.
John C. Maxwell
Key Question What are 5 habits you can execute daily that will lead
to the fulfillment of your dream?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light,
not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.
Beryl Markham
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DAY 14
Engage in the Process Gladly.
Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity
but with it you can accomplish miracles.
Og Mandino
Key Question What are 7 reasons why you must pursue your dream with joy?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
6. ___________________________________________
7. ___________________________________________
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Khalil Gibran
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DAY 15
Engage in the Process Intuitively.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a
faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the
servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein
Key Question What is your “gut” suggesting that you do first
to make your dream a reality?
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Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes
of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
Robert Graves
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DAY 16
Engage in the Process Now.
God makes three requests of his children:
Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have, now.
African-American Proverb
Key Question What are 3 actions you will take today
to move you in the direction of your dream?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
“Now” is the operative word.
Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the
hour when you could actually be doing your dream.
You don't need endless time and perfect conditions.
Do it now. Do it today.
Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating. Barbara Sher
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STAGE 3 – REVIEW
Engage in the Process.
Engage…
Boldy
Everyday
Gladly
Intuitively
Now
Now that I have committed to engaging in the process of
discovering, developing, and displaying my dream, here are 5
specific things do I want to accomplish over next 30 days to
make my dream a reality…
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
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STAGE FOUR
Allow the
Obstacles to
Strengthen You
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Thomas Carlyle
Times that are rough...make you TOUGH!
Edward Paz
DAY 17
Allow Past Obstacles to Strengthen You. Part 1
What is past is prologue.
William Shakespeare
Key Question What are 3 obstacles/circumstances from your past
that have prepared you to make your dream a reality?
Past Obstacle/Circumstance
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
Corresponding Lesson Learned
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
We ought not to look back,
unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors
and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience.
George Washington
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DAY 18
Allow Past Obstacles to Strengthen You. Part 2
Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides
Key Question What are 2 more obstacles/circumstances from your past
that have prepared you to make your dream a reality?
Past Obstacle/Circumstance
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
Corresponding Lesson Learned
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
I've never tried to block out the memories of the past,
even though some are painful. I don't understand people who
hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make
you the person you are now.
Sophia Loren
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DAY 19
Allow Present Obstacles to Strengthen You. Part 1
There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Key Question What are 3 obstacles/ circumstances that you are currently
facing that are preparing you to make your dream a reality?
Present Obstacle/Circumstance
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
Corresponding Lesson Being Learned
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the
weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle
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DAY 20
Allow Present Obstacles to Strengthen You. Part 2
To turn an obstacle to one's advantage
is a great step towards victory.
French Proverb
Key Question What are 2 more obstacles/circumstances that you are currently
facing that are preparing you to make your dream a reality?
Present Obstacle/Circumstance
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
Corresponding Lesson Being Learned
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually
encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed.
They won because they refused to become
discouraged by their defeats.
B.C. Forbes
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DAY 21
Allow Future Obstacles to Strengthen You. Part 1
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents,
which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace
Key Question What are 3 obstacles/circumstances that you can foresee
getting in the way of you making your dream a reality?
Future Obstacle/Circumstance
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
Possible Corresponding Solution
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
Obstacles don't have to stop you.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan
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DAY 22
Allow Future Obstacles to Strengthen You. Part 2
When everything seems to be going against you, remember
that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford
Key Question What are 2 more obstacles/circumstances that you can foresee
getting in the way of you making your dream a reality?
Future Obstacle/Circumstance
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
Possible Corresponding Solution
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles,
have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens,
but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Walt Disney
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STAGE 4 – REVIEW
Allow the Obstacles to Strengthen You.
Allow…
Present Obstacles to Strengthen You
Past Obstacles to Strengthen You
Future Obstacles to Strengthen You
Upon reflecting upon my past, present, and future obstacles,
I realize that obstacles are beneficial to me for the following
reasons…
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
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STAGE FIVE
Maintain
Faith!
When you have come to the edge of all light that you know
and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown,
Faith is knowing one of two things will happen:
There will be something solid to stand on
or you will be taught to fly.
Patrick Overton
When you’ve reached a dead end…BELIEVE till the end!
Edward Paz
DAY 23
Maintain Faith for Blessing.
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite
liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
John Calvin
Key Question What are 7 blessings you look forward to receiving
as you pursue the fulfillment of your dream?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
6. ___________________________________________
7. ___________________________________________
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work,
some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords
a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
John Burroughs
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DAY 24
Maintain Faith for Encouragement.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Key Question What are 7 sources of encouragement you look forward to
receiving from as you pursue the fulfillment of your dream?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
6. ___________________________________________
7. ___________________________________________
One word or a pleasing smile is often enough
to raise up a saddened and wounded soul.
Therese of Lisieux
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DAY 25
Maintain Faith for Legacy.
The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of
meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.
Stephen Covey
Key Question How do you want the fulfillment of your dream
to continue on even after your life is over?
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There is no success without succession.
Unknown
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DAY 26
Maintain Faith for Inspiration.
There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly
and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.
Winston Churchill
Key Question What are 7 sources that you that you look forward to receiving
inspiration from as you pursue the fulfillment your dream?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
6. ___________________________________________
7. ___________________________________________
Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the
Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.
Voltaire
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DAY 27
Maintain Faith for Energy.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself,
the more energy you will have.
Norman Vincent Peale
Key Question What are 7 sources that you that you look forward to receiving
energy from as you pursue the fulfillment your dream?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
6. ___________________________________________
7. ___________________________________________
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel
strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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DAY 28
Maintain Faith for Funding.
You can be sure that God will take care of everything you need.
The Apostle Paul
Key Question What are 7 sources that you that you look forward to receiving
financing from to fund the fulfillment of your dream?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
6. ___________________________________________
7. ___________________________________________
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.
Don't make money your goal.
Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so
well that people can't take their eyes off you.
Maya Angelou
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STAGE 5 – REVIEW
Maintain Faith!
Maintain Faith for…
Blessing
Encouragement
Legacy
Inspiration
Energy
Funding
With an understanding that faith is a necessary ingredient of the
dream process, I will derive my faith from the following 5
sources…
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
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DAY 29
8 Goals for Your Dream
The reason why most people face the future with apprehension
instead of anticipation is because they don’t have it well designed.
Jim Rohn
Key Question What are the benchmarks/goals that you would like to see take
place during the coming years of your dream journey?
1 Year Goals
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3 Year Goals
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
5 Year Goals
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
10 Year Goals
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
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DAY 30
A Letter to Yourself
Key Question If you could write yourself a letter that you could refer back to
when your dream journey gets difficult, what would you write?
Dear __________________________,
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Sincerely,
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CONCLUSION
If you have reached the end of this book having written down your
answers to the questions given…Congratulations! You are well on your way
to making your dream a reality! The patience and perseverance that it took
to thoughtfully work through the questions posed will be the same patience
and perseverance that will lead you to the fulfillment of your dream!
In conclusion, I want to leave you with a few action steps for you to
take that will help you to maximize the concepts outlined in this book:
Action Step #1: Refer back to this booklet often.
Use this booklet as a resource to keep you inspired when times get
tough, and allow if to be a reminder to you of why you started out on you
dream journey in the first place!
Action Step #2: Focus on the daily disciplines.
Your level of commitment to the five habits you identified in Day 13
will have a greater impact on your dream becoming a reality than anything else! Engage in the process everyday!
Action Step #3: Consume content DAILY to inspire your dream.
The more content you can consume to inspire your dream, the less
likely you will be to quit when the obstacles seem too high to surmount!
I feel so passionately about this, that I have created a website that I
am a confident will one day have the most comprehensive library of
resources to inspire your dream! On the site you can find inspiration through
quotes, books, articles, videos, biographies, movie clips, poems, worksheets and more! Check it out at www.edwardpaz.com.
Action Step #4: E-Mail me your dream!
In the “Stage Two – Review” you were asked to write out, to the
best of your ability, the vision of your dream fulfilled. If you would e-mail me
your vision to [email protected], I would love to personally encourage
you in your dream!
Your dream will come to pass! The road will be long and hard, but
as you remain faithful to the process, you can be sure that an unspeakable joy awaits you! Congratulations in advance for the positive impact you will
have on others as a result of seeing your dream through to its completion!
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