What are your Dreams? What is your driving force in your life?

A few year ago, I thought my dream was to work and travel. I thought that I could do any kind of work and it didn’t matter as long as I could travel and see the world.

Yet it was incredibly unfulfilling. Working for someone else. Having someone else tell me whether I was allowed to take vacation or when. Having to ask permission to miss work for my kids or my parents needing help.

I didn’t HATE my job, and I was pretty good at it… I’d been there ten years and still had almost nothing to show for it, but anger, resentment, and an unhealthy work environment.

Refusal of the Call to Manifest My Dreams

About 7 years ago a friend sent me an email with a link to a class that I “REALLY needed to take.” I was busy still wrapping up my summer and events and didn’t have time for any class. I had businesses to run, and recruits to help teach duplication to.

One of my recruits asked me if I was joining the Master Key Experience course. To which I gave her a score of excuses as to why I was unable to make this work and didn’t have the time.

This lady was literally the sweetest soul, and followed myself and my business ventures a couple of times. We needed a win… no more losses. Her response to my text was a deafening “Ok.”

Now Anne-Marie never lost her patience on anything, never gave up, was always all in, and never spoke her frustrations or angst… I could feel the detached disappointment in her text and knew I made a mistake and I copped out with a bunch of lazy excuses as a way out.

What kind of a leader was that? What kind of a friend was that? So from the middle of a music festival I filled out the course application.

Resisting Going Back to School

Have you ever taken a course or a program because of someone else, but really didn’t want to be there yourself? What kind of effort did you put in? What kind of resistance did you meet along the way?

It had been about 15ish years since I was in any kind of school, and I had ZERO interest in going back. I FOUGHT IT EVERY STEP OF THE WAY!!!

** The Webinars are too long **
** There is too much work **
** It takes too much time **
** This is great, I mean I know all about this stuff… **

I did the WORST attempt at keeping up with everything and did just enough to stay in the course through the requirements.

What are Your Dreams? What Do You Want?

When we started, after the introduction to the course and the materials, Mark Januszewski, course creator and trainer, asked us, “What do you want? If time and money were no issue, what would you do? What are your dreams??”

When was the last time someone asked you what your dreams were? Did you tell them? Do you even have an answer to that question?

I had to think about things a little bit. What were my dreams?? What did I REALLY want? Deep down where there was no societal expectations on me, my career, my family or my thoughts.

It took me a while to figure out exactly what was important to me. I changed my PPNs (Personal Pivotal Needs) a couple times really trying to find what was most aligned with my higher purpose.

Moving Toward Living My Dreams

A few years later I finally settled on Autonomy and True Health. I realized that my time was all that I cared about. See, Autonomy is all about having COMPLETE time freedom. NO ONE is telling me what I am doing or when. I get to make all of those decisions.

Now fast forward to about two years ago and I lost my ten-year corporate oil and gas job… Ya remember that one I didn’t HATE… Ya that one. I was crushed! My world had ended. WHAT was I going to do? Who was going to hire me? How was I going to provide for my family???

The fears got bigger, and the problems became more overwhelming until I thought that I was going to fall apart from shaking of fright and failure. I had to find a job yesterday!!!

The adoption was finally going through after 4 years and now I lost my JOB?!?! God, how could this happen? What do I do? I am so grateful for my friends and mentors at that time as I was trying to rewrite my DMP and could not iron out my sacrifice.

I was so stressed out, I almost took the “manager/trainee” position at Rona for $17/hr… all because I was living in such a “lack and poor mindset”.

After talking to my Mentor regarding my DMP and the businesses I wanted to make a reality; it became crystal clear to me that I needed to stop looking for a job!!

*WHAT?!?* That’s crazy!!! (Definitely what both of our sets of parents thought, lol). We had been trying to work two personal businesses for years, and never had the right amount of time to put into the process for either of them.

Watching the Dream Unfold

I literally had just been handed ALL THE TIME to work on our future, with no other j-o-b taking my time, energy, and sunshine.

I’ll skip the boring parts, the trying and weak times, but over the last two years, I have had COMPLETE control over my time… except for kids… they tend to throw curve balls still haha.

In my very first DMP, I knew that my parents were getting older and I desperately wanted to be able to have the Autonomy to go and help my mom with canning when ever she needed, help with the planting, and garden, hunting, or any other project.

It was about three years later that I helped my mom with ALL the canning that Fall. It didn’t work out the way I had envisioned it happening, but I got to do what I so desperately felt the need and calling to do.

I am sitting at my Nana and Papa’s table writing this. It is November and we didn’t get out to visit our family this summer, so what did I do?

Our family is not getting younger, and some are struggling with their health. What good is the struggle of life if not to be with those that matter the most?

I wasn’t waiting another year to visit everyone… so here we are in NOVEMBER, and I packed the kids up, told their teachers we were gone and off we went.

I have true Autonomy over my time and where /or when I work. I would never have any understanding of this incredible freedom and power over myself and my life if it were not for the Master Key Experience and rethinking my habits and my dreams.

So I ask you again… What are your dreams?