My Best Advice on Making Your Dreams Actionable - When I Grow Up

My Best Advice on Making Your Dreams Actionable - When I Grow Up In my 37 years, I remember so many times I put my dreams into action. I remember putting up a show I wrote for my elementary school. I remember getting chorus solos and leads in musicals. I remember getting into NYUs musical theater program at their Tisch School of the Arts, early admission. I remember being told they accepted 1 in 60 applicants. I remember countless auditions, and callbacks, and jobs accepted and declined. I remember, eventually, honoring my shifting dreams and letting my acting career go. I remember choosing the difficult road in becoming a certified life coach and, eventually, the career coach I needed at the time one that worked with creative types. I remember all the people who asked, But how will you make any money if you only work with starving artists? I remember going into my Executive Assistant job which I did for almost 3 years to pay the bills while I got my certification and built my business and giving my notice. I had never spoken about my business to my manager, but she asked me right away: Are you leaving to do your coaching? When I answered positively, she said, Im glad. Im sure youre great at that. I remember getting my first client. Signing a book deal. Being listed on the Forbes Top 100 Websites for your Career List. Teaching a class for 10,000 people online. Being mentioned in extra large print in New York Magazine. My life has always been a dream in action, and the biggest thing Ive learned is this: There is always a how. Ive yet to work with a client who has found the WHAT of her dream career and then couldnt figure out HOW to make it work in the semblance of her grown-up life. Ive been doing this work for 7 years, and have personally coached hundreds of clients. Its never happened. Not once. If you keep your focus on what you want and need now  and in the near-ish future and stop worrying about the you thats 5, 10, or 20 years away and instead start thinking that you can  make your dream a reality its just a matter of how  it works for you then youll find the grey area where your action and answer! lives, and the reality that comes thereafter.